Mathematics &Poetry Entropy | 31 May 2008
Philosophic in its complex, ovoid emptiness, a skillful pundit coined it as a sort of stopgap doorstop for those quaint equations Romans never dreamt of. In form completely clever and discrete—a mirror come unsilvered, loose watch face without the works, a hollowed globe from tip to toe unbroken, it evades the grappling hooks of mass, [...]
Music &Poetry Entropy | 22 May 2008
J.S. Bach is being regarded as a genius of Western music. In fact Brahms described Bach’s Chaconne (BWV.1004) as containing ‘a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings. This poem by Lars Gustafson wonderfully expresses Bach’s influence on classical music The Silence of the World before Bach There must have been [...]
Architecture & Design &Photography Entropy | 18 May 2008
I have an endless fascination with New York city and its Architectural Landmarks The building of New York’s bridges, photographed by Eugene de Salignac, De Salignac, it turned out, had worked for the Department of Bridges (later the Department of Plant and Structures) from 1903 to 1934. Vast reaches of infrastructure were laid down in [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation &Thought Provoking Entropy | 16 May 2008
This is thought provoking article published in recent Orion Magazine on social consumption hysteria. The first fully enclosed shopping mall in America, and probably the world, was the Southdale Center in Edina, outside Minneapolis. Built in 1956, it is credited to Austrian immigrant architect Victor Gruen, who wanted to re-create the intimate scale and feel [...]
Mathematics &Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 08 May 2008
Relationship(s) of Quantity to Quality Where did Quantity and Quality come from? Some Cosmic or Existential Sum? It may sound simply dumb. But it may have come from a Mathematicians rule of thumb… Or A plumb line not very fine, or mine, But Divine. Quantity – Quality => Imposiblé. Quality – Quantity: They may say, [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 04 May 2008
Wish to share a captivating and poignant piece by Wendy Steginsky from Wild River Review. KEEPING THE FIRE ALIVE… Mediocribus esse poetis non homines, non di, non concessere columnae. “Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers allow poets to be mediocre.” So declared Horace in his Ars Poetica. Keeping this charge from one of the fathers [...]