spherical continuum

globular clusters and planetary bodies ... I wonder what the dimension of a triangular-basis looks like?












. Sphere .

. Triangles .

Mon, Jul 21, 2008  Permanent link

spherical galaxy

we live in a spherical galaxy ... from atoms, cell structure, the shape of Earth, all heavenly bodies, and beyond ...

here are some inspirational artworks by Lisa Beck:























"I’ve always appreciated the way we refer to an artwork as a "piece." For me, the artwork is a selection out of a continuum, like a snapshot is a piece of stopped time. Our perceptions and ideas are amorphous and evolving- at least mine are. So an artwork is an encapsulation of a particular moment in that evolution. There are other possibilities that may come out in other work or they may remain unexpressed."

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Mon, Jul 21, 2008  Permanent link

a Shroomy Night

Beginnings of the night dwellers :


Insights into the night:
don’t believe. Don’t even believe of not believing, as the Atheists believe in their non-belief. The believers limit themselves … so don’t believe, just experience.

Meet the beings from the sweet sweet smiling watermelon:



You’ve got to light up to be lit … and for now, being sober is our new high…

Tue, Apr 15, 2008  Permanent link

Sarajo Frieden

www.sarajofrieden.com

Mon, Mar 10, 2008  Permanent link

Steven Gontarski

his work blows me away ... stange changing humanoids, seeming to melt in form.
.. speaking about some of his future work, "they're imagined beings that have access to what will happen in their particular space. I try to make them look as though they do fit into and play a charged role in a very specific context and history. What this history is...who knows? It's imagined. I'm tributizing doubt because how can anyone know what will happen, especially now, no one has any clue because things seem to be going backwards in so many ways. Maybe it's time to celebrate the 'not knowing' and the belief that anything can happen ..



www.stevengontarski.com

Sun, Mar 9, 2008  Permanent link

LSD drawings by a young boy

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Sun, Mar 9, 2008  Permanent link

are humans getting taller?

it's crossed my mind several times, the height of human beings seems to be growing. is that my perception or is it really true? I would love to know if anyone has answers ... I researched it a bit, but what really makes me wonder is the lineage of my family and friend's families ... the offspring always seems to be taller than their parents.

I'm taller than my mother and I think just by a hair may be taller than my father, my brother is taller than any of us ... and my mother is taller than my grandmother ... of course as age sometimes 'debilitates' our form our parents ‘shrink’ overtime … but still, it seems children are getting taller. Even visiting museums and seeing ancient bones, they are all such a short height. ‘ Lucy’ I read stood only 3’ 8” tall. When I asked my biology teacher a few years ago in class, he said that humans were actually getting shorter because to our advantage of survival we want to be short for faster and easier blood circulation … I dismissed the fact, but just remembered it recently again .. I would love to hear other people’s opinions … surely living in Amsterdam is maybe getting to me because almost everyone here is above you in height .. I’m just throwing this thought out there, for fun, on a slow Sunday afternoon ..


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+ Auxology
+ Lucy

Sun, Mar 9, 2008  Permanent link

Protein Shapes and the Stephenville Texas lights

A few nights ago, Michael showed me the videos of the Stephenville lights -
a beautifully strange phenomenon which occurred through out January and February, rapidly changing symbols of segmented bright colors in the sky from an orb, perhaps 3D projectiles or maybe the orb itself was changing into the symbols . You have to see the video footage to try to fathom it, but seeing it live must have been more moving.

Of course there is a lot of thoughts on what it was, what they were, and people from different point in the city saw the 3D symbols all differently from another perspective … so what do the symbols mean to you? Does it remind you of anything?
Thousands of years ago, similar accounts have been seen and written about in history; documentations from people, and even stone carvings … maybe they have been returning here many times, showing us symbols to communicate, maybe we haven’t responded in their language yet .. Michael and I talked about it, it could look like DNA shapes .. But nothing double-helical … just strange looping fragments of a long colored ribbon.

And today I realized it reminded me of protein shapes that I studied in cellular biology, and looked up some images I found online … Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find intricate details as I remember from my university books; but you can judge for yourself if the shapes remind you of it? proteins are very complex, a mystery to us because not only does their behaviour and functions based on their chemistry, as with genes, but the shape and fold is also extremely important - more so than any other components of our body. To function at all proteins need all the chemical components assembled correctly and then perfectly shaped by folding like intricate origami, coiling and wrinkling into odd forms. at any moment we have some crazy amount of millions of proteins working away in each cell. I wonder if this may be the answer to shaping our DNA, for the next evolutionary phase of our existence. They are sneding us clues or subconcious messages to move forward? At the moment we don’t know too much information about our genes - what tells us what we are made up of, and proteins are the instructions of how it all goes around .. the later being much more complex, so we really don’t have a full understanding of it … what if there lie the answers of how we can really change and better ourselves?

Interestingly the most common gene we have is for the creation a protein called Reverse Transcriptase that doesn’t do anything else other than make the retrovirus HIV and some others enter our systems unnoticeably. Have we maybe thought negatively of HIV, when it clearly is in our system, as if needed for one another … we just haven’t fully understood of DNA, it’s full capacity - amongst that “97 percent junk” that is unreadable and scientists believe there is no reason for it’s existence.

Sander, a colleague of mine at work recently said to me that humans seek out interpretation and meaning, when really all it is simple existence and chance. But aren’t we here to figure out what it all means, experience this, question it .. So what are these high definition symbols in the sky mean? what are they trying to communicate to us and why at this time?

I really don’t know what it all means, it’s a hopeful and romantic thought maybe of wanting to take a deep lunge to the future of being, and of course to meet other ‘beings,’ and understand their language, it can all be speculations .. But how could it not be all connected and related? it feels that in this state of being, everything is related and connected for a reason, it all has meaning and worth?












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Sun, Mar 9, 2008  Permanent link

ah, geology ..

I loooove this passage I just read:
(from James Hutton’s 1795 A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations)

' The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials, not of the earth which was the immediate predecessor of the present, but of the earth which, in ascending from the present, we consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the water of the ocean. '

Tue, Feb 12, 2008  Permanent link

have you ever calculated your E?!

E = mc2

well, if you calculated your E ... wow, WOOOW, waaaaa wuuuu ... oh, yeah, it's some crazy crazy amount of potential energy!!!
something crazy, like, oh, enough to be a hot firework of 30 very large hydrogen bombs!!!!

fortunately ... or unfortunately .. we haven't found out how to get that energy out of us yet. you'd have to do some deep meditation and listening to the universe for the answer. but when you find out, you could make quite the statement! .. hopefully when we do find out how, we wouldn't be stupid enough to use it in malicious ways of killing or threatening our own human beings just on the other side of the continent across the ocean. we're not yet sophisticated enough to know all these things ..the most energetic thing we've produced yet is the Uranium bomb and we can't even release over 1 percent of its potential energy ..

but what a great amount, don't you think? will be a super fun place when we're all exploding literally in all sorts of light and information ..

pretty pretty good ..

.. but the best place to be is right here, right now

Tue, Feb 12, 2008  Permanent link