Art &Poetry Entropy | 28 Jun 2009
When he was excavating form from facts – finding the geometry of trees and Mont St Victoire – he was doing what you’d like to find a bye-way to, translating ravages of daily dross into an illuminated shape or two, simple as light but holding all the prickly specific unspeakable matter of fact, a grasping [...]
Photography Entropy | 23 Jun 2009
A Photography Icon.. The Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it would retire Iconic Kodachrome, its oldest film stock, concluding its 74-year run. As part of a tribute to KODACHROME Film, Kodak will donate the last rolls of the film to George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, which houses the [...]
Economic Behaviour &Thought Provoking Entropy | 22 Jun 2009
This is an fascinating & deeply insightful feature by Duncan Watts.. recently published in The Boston Globe. The article is adapted from the Harvard Business Review. On Aug. 10, 1996, a single power line in western Oregon brushed a tree and shorted out, triggering a massive cascade of power outages that spread across the western [...]
One of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson remains largely an enigma. Dickinson tells how it is to be a human being in a particular moment, in compressed, hard, blazingly vivid poems. Her greatest seem not sung but forced into being by a craving for a kind of forbidden knowledge of the unknowable. Forever – is [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 18 Jun 2009
Czeslaw Milosz’s work is something so extraordinary in our epoch, that it seems to be a phenomenon that he has appeared on the surface of contemporary art from the mysterious depths of reality,” declared Krzysztof Dybciak in World Literature. “At a time when voices of doubt, deadness, and despair are the loudest; when writers are [...]
Poetry &Science Entropy | 16 Jun 2009
This is an haunting poem by Roald Hoffmann, (1981 Nobel laureate in chemistry ) written when “Nature commissioned him to write on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA,”. The result was a poem titled CODE, MEMORY. Which apparently was not published by them. It’s not a simple poem, neither in structure nor mood. Layered [...]