so i can't have chrome on my computer at home because it needs a newer version of the software or some such. but i downloaded opera and it's almost as good and i configured my speed dial on that too and i'll show you the background later. it's more schiele because that's what i like. and i asked for gouache paints from my sister for chanukah.
December 11, 2012
December 4, 2012
useful things
also i just wanted to give you some more useful things.
1. i downloaded chrome for my work web browser (for some reason i am really committed to using safari at home. why?) and needed a way to organize my most-visited/"favorite" sites -- more functionality than a bookmark bar can provide. i had searched for "tab organizers" there was nothing good. eventually i learned there are extensions for this but they're all called some variation of Speed Dial. so i downloaded speed dial 2 and let me tell you IT IS WONDERFUL.
2. this is my background for speed dial 2.
1. i downloaded chrome for my work web browser (for some reason i am really committed to using safari at home. why?) and needed a way to organize my most-visited/"favorite" sites -- more functionality than a bookmark bar can provide. i had searched for "tab organizers" there was nothing good. eventually i learned there are extensions for this but they're all called some variation of Speed Dial. so i downloaded speed dial 2 and let me tell you IT IS WONDERFUL.
2. this is my background for speed dial 2.
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| SCHIELE DRAWS |
clouds
as you may know, i love sky phenomena: clouds, lightning, bare branches of trees against the sky, i guess rainbows too.
my coworker artist friend got a grant to go to an art colony in finland for a month! i'm really happy for her. in honor of her i am posting a few photos of clouds in finland. the whole gallery of clouds in finland is from the cloud appreciation society.
my coworker artist friend got a grant to go to an art colony in finland for a month! i'm really happy for her. in honor of her i am posting a few photos of clouds in finland. the whole gallery of clouds in finland is from the cloud appreciation society.
November 30, 2012
Elements
Julia's Nov. 30 11:54am post reminds me of a passage I love from Annie Dillard's An American Childhood--a book that I have read twice -- and finished for the second time just today for a human development class...
"The awesome story of the earth's crust's buckling and shifting unfortunately failed to move me in the slightest. But here was an interesting find. Only a quirk of chemistry prevented the ground's being a heap of broken rubble. I hadn't thought of that. Why isn't it all a heap of broken rubble? For the bedrock fractures and cleaves, notoriously; it uplifts, crumbles, splits, shears, and folds. All this action naturally shatters the crust. But it happens that the abundant element of silicon is water soluble at high temperatures. This element heals the scars. Dissolved silicon seeps everywhere underground and slips into fissures and veins; it fills in, mends, and cements the rubble, over and over, from age to age. It heals all the thick wounds on the continents' skin and under the oceans; it solidifies as it cools, uplifting, and forms pale veins of scarry quartz running through everything; it dominates the granite bedrock on which we build our cities, the granite interior of mountains, and the beds that under lie the plains."
"The awesome story of the earth's crust's buckling and shifting unfortunately failed to move me in the slightest. But here was an interesting find. Only a quirk of chemistry prevented the ground's being a heap of broken rubble. I hadn't thought of that. Why isn't it all a heap of broken rubble? For the bedrock fractures and cleaves, notoriously; it uplifts, crumbles, splits, shears, and folds. All this action naturally shatters the crust. But it happens that the abundant element of silicon is water soluble at high temperatures. This element heals the scars. Dissolved silicon seeps everywhere underground and slips into fissures and veins; it fills in, mends, and cements the rubble, over and over, from age to age. It heals all the thick wounds on the continents' skin and under the oceans; it solidifies as it cools, uplifting, and forms pale veins of scarry quartz running through everything; it dominates the granite bedrock on which we build our cities, the granite interior of mountains, and the beds that under lie the plains."
#BSG
I am really into Battlestar Galactica now. Just started watching during the Hurricane. Sweetie and I just moved in together and we haven't installed the tv so I'm still only partway through season two. Yesterday I checked to see if there was wifi (weefee as they call it in Italia) and one of the networks is called Caprica six!!!!!!!
One of an art of my coworker is one of some gestating machine mothers and reminds me of how the Cylons want to gestate babies in women. That sounds normal but it's not. Coworker is adept with the internets so I cannot link to that specific drawing but here is her website the drawing is called three winsome maids gestate our machine babies / img 50 of 118
One of an art of my coworker is one of some gestating machine mothers and reminds me of how the Cylons want to gestate babies in women. That sounds normal but it's not. Coworker is adept with the internets so I cannot link to that specific drawing but here is her website the drawing is called three winsome maids gestate our machine babies / img 50 of 118
Periodic Tables
Here we have a couple periodic tables. This post was inspired by Radiolab's "very 1970's periodic table."
Here's Mendeleev's original
And here's a guy wearing it as a shirt
Bye for now.
Here's Mendeleev's original
And here's a guy wearing it as a shirt
Bye for now.
October 16, 2012
Just reading about Hannah Arendt in my free time here at work. Wikipedia is of course not the best (ie most impartial / fullest) resource but it is the easiest to conjure and least suspect.
One paragraph particularly stands out at me:
I am intrigued by the idea that "the majority of people had no role to play in politics other than voting." My first response was Yes this is correct. We the majority of the people are scarcely engaged in politics except for the Presidential elections every four years. Obviously if we the majority of the people were more committed / disgusted we would further a political system that is more representative -- a system of more than two parties so that we're not constantly gridlocked.
HOWEVER
Now that many of society's members have access to social media platforms I think there is this tendency to assume all people's voices can be heard. But I am not sure this is correct. It's true we have the ability, for the most part, to broadcast ourselves and state our opinions in a public forum. But who pays attention? Ktin said ages ago that Twitter is just something Adults do because they think the Young People do it. I'll modify and update that a little to say that young people do tweet but the Adults with the power to affect and popularize -- I'm thinking of CNN et al here -- just do it with each other. Meh I don't know how to explain this any better than just saying that those who have institutionalized power are more likely to publicize the ideas of the other people with institutionalized power, so the young people on twitter don't have any agency because they only have like sixteen followers. Or maybe I'm sucked into the vortex of only believing the media industrial complex so I don't notice the traction and impact of the segmented non-popularized non-status quo groups. Hmm
Then again I may be totally off-base. I didn't know about Gangam Style til like three days ago and hadn't heard Call Me Maybe until we went to Italy in September.
One paragraph particularly stands out at me:
Arendt also argued that the revolutionary spirit endemic to the founding fathers had not been preserved in America because the majority of people had no role to play in politics other than voting. She admired Thomas Jefferson's idea of dividing counties into townships. Arendt's interest in such a "council system," which she saw as the only alternative to the state, continued all her life.[14]
I am intrigued by the idea that "the majority of people had no role to play in politics other than voting." My first response was Yes this is correct. We the majority of the people are scarcely engaged in politics except for the Presidential elections every four years. Obviously if we the majority of the people were more committed / disgusted we would further a political system that is more representative -- a system of more than two parties so that we're not constantly gridlocked.
HOWEVER
Now that many of society's members have access to social media platforms I think there is this tendency to assume all people's voices can be heard. But I am not sure this is correct. It's true we have the ability, for the most part, to broadcast ourselves and state our opinions in a public forum. But who pays attention? Ktin said ages ago that Twitter is just something Adults do because they think the Young People do it. I'll modify and update that a little to say that young people do tweet but the Adults with the power to affect and popularize -- I'm thinking of CNN et al here -- just do it with each other. Meh I don't know how to explain this any better than just saying that those who have institutionalized power are more likely to publicize the ideas of the other people with institutionalized power, so the young people on twitter don't have any agency because they only have like sixteen followers. Or maybe I'm sucked into the vortex of only believing the media industrial complex so I don't notice the traction and impact of the segmented non-popularized non-status quo groups. Hmm
Then again I may be totally off-base. I didn't know about Gangam Style til like three days ago and hadn't heard Call Me Maybe until we went to Italy in September.
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