Author Archives: joshfaskowitz

numero oct

For this day, I am going to talk about art.  I have with me this awesome art magazine named Juxtapoz Magazine and I would highly recommend it for anybody who wants to keep up to date with the most awesome contemporary art from around the world.  I happen to have with my a magazine that […]

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numero sieben

This day was simply really cool.  Tyler Adams had the best lecture so far and the anechoic chamber expanded my mind.  As I sat through this day, I felt as if something inside me was swelling up with this hope, this wonderful excitement about how sounds can change my existence in the world.  Now I […]

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numero sechts

Today we made this really cool ferrofluid.  A ferrofluid is a liquid that becomes strongly polarized in a magnetic field.  The word itself is sort of explainable; ‘ferrum’ is latin for iron and that word is combined with ‘fluid’. We made this black liquid stuff by mixing some iron stuff with some ammonia stuff and […]

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numero fumf

Monday was a really neat and eventful day.  First the museum, then the LAPD plasma lab, and finally the book collection. First of all, I thought the art we viewed at the Fowler Museum mind-expanding.  The exhibit consited of Aboriginal ‘Dream’ paintings from Papunya in Australia.   These painting were recent, considering that most Aboriginal art […]

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numero vier

Today was a day of results.  We presented our midterms and we saw the DSMA kid’s final presentations. My group went through pletny of good ideas to decide on a final point.  We decided we would be a little different in our ideas, playing off the theme of ‘imagine the impossible’.  Now of course, nanobots […]

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numero drei

When I go to a museum and stare at the wondrous paintings, rarely do it think of science.  I find myself enamored in the artistic strokes of the piece, following the paints of Van Gough or Monet all across the texture canvas surface.  What I realized after this day was that this would not be […]

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numero zwei

On this fine day, I really got to learn about the application of nano science in medicine.   We first visited the chemistry lab where they were working on caner research and then Dr. Rome lectured to us. I found the chemistry lab visit to be interesting.  Although I did not like chemistry too much in […]

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numero eins

I think it was rather fitting that on this day early into our Art-Sci camp we learned about microscopes.  After all, it is only with the knowledge and understanding of microscopes that I believe one can truly appreciate how our world functions in its extremely basic level. I came to this conclusion as I stood […]

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