Today is our final day of preparation. The amount of laptops in the room is taunting me. The clicks of the keyboard are maddening. My eyes are glazed over. For the past three hours, I haven’t talked to a soul… unless you count my curses directed to the laptop in front of me. My mind […]
We spent most of today working on our projects. It was pretty interesting seeing all of the different ideas that groups have: animation videos, movies, songs, newscasts, etc. I am excited to see everybody’s projects tomorrow. I think it will be a great expression of all of our artistic and scientific sides: thinking of new […]
Giacomo, from the Getty Research Center, was here today to speak to us about art preservation. Having a long time career in this field, Giacomo was able to tell us how the technology in art preservation and atomic analysis has evolved over the years. The high tech gadgets of his trade, as with any other […]
As we looked at the different elements of sound today, I realized that sound has more dimensions than I thought initially. In the morning lecture we learned about manipulating sound and the different effects multiple environments can have on the sound. One element which struck my interest was the “auto […]
The past two weeks at UCLA have been fantastic! Before I came here, I was a bit wary about how the program would incorporate both art and science. However, after 10 days, I’ve realized that science and art cannot exist without the other. They are interdependent, and share a symbiotic relationship. (Yay biology terms!) Science […]
Nano technology program This two week nano technology program was really fun. We had a lot of interesting lectures and got to see a lot of mind boggling science fiction movies. My favorite movies were Children of men and Blade Runner. I liked it because every day we did something new, it was really cool. My favorite […]
Our project is finally almost finished. We worked for a long time and went through many little fights before getting to where we are now. We will do a little more work later tonight still. I think it is turning out quiet well. We are even making a rap song using Logic Pro on my […]
Day one after a long, refreshing, and fun weekend. We visited the Getty which was an extremely interesting place. They had an open photography exibit which was extremely interesting to look at. The building was almost more interesting than the art itself. After our stimulating experience at The Getty we heeded down to Venice beach […]
July 16, 2009 Back earlier in summer when I was packing for this trip, I had various thoughts about this summer institute program: ‘How much can science and art possibly be similar? What kind of work am I about to be assigned? Is this more worth it than my regular summer of relaxation?’ The car […]
As my final day here at the UCLA SciArt Nanolab concluded, I began to contemplate over the many things I have learned over this course. The plethora of knowledge I have acquired from this course ranges from the past to the future, from simple to complex. At first, I was unsure of whether I […]