As we walked to our daily movie today, Brent stopped and pointed to the sky, “I like looking at the sky from here because the yellow leaves make the sky look purple.” We looked up; it was true, the light must have bent differently. And I could not help thinking that the theme of […]
Today was a pretty relaxed day. Our lecture was given by Victoria Vesna, whose discourse on her journey as an artist was interesting to me. I understand and feel the same way about what she said regarding her inner desire to create things that haven’t been done before. Her deep connection with sound in her art […]
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan demonstrated to us LUCAS imaging technology, which utilizes a mobile phone equipped with a lensfree imaging tool. Then, holographic “shadowlike” images of the patient’s blood can be sent from the phone, or uploaded to a computer, to specialists for analysis, who can then text back results. This can provide for portable and inexpensive […]
Friday, July 10th marked the fateful day of our midterm presentations. Emotions of terror, anxiety and nausea swept through the 3rd floor of Hedrick Hall. The ArtSci students were down to the last core and hanging on to sanity by a thread, drifting more into madness with each passing second. What to do for our […]
I must approach today from an artistic agenda due to the events that took place. Dr. Vesna’s biography of her life showed how an individual with creativity and wit could achieve any career goal. Learning how an artist can hook his or her way in to the science world always fascinates me and I wish […]
Seeing is believing. Light has always perplexed humans and presents a puzzling contradiction about perception. I think perception is a topic full of gray areas. It has been proven that light is both a particle and a wave, a concept that is still rather difficult to completely comprehend. And then light also is necessary in […]
So today was veryyy cool . We got more into the art part of this and i really liked the labs we went to. We saw Olivia’s hair through the scanning electron microscope which went as fast as her splitting it off and then right into the machine. The technology was pretty cool, touch screen, […]
The visit to the lab of Dr. Yang Yang fascinated me. It made me realize the importance of color. When we learned about quantum dots it was explained that the color they appear is because of their size. Then seeing the algae in Dr. Yang Yang’s lab and how it gave off a blue color […]
07.10.09 UCLA – To elaborate on the ideas of today, some of the midterm ideas were really interesting and most were actually practical. But I’d personally like to speculate further then practical. A hundred years ago a touch screen telephone (one such as the iphone) would not have even been thought of. A hundred years […]
Today the Sci | Art Nanolab received Giacomo Chiari, Chief Scientist of the Getty Museum. Being a student mostly interested in the sciences, it was a privilege to be able to hear him speak. We are nearly halfway with our program. For me, the line between science and art has been blurred. This is a […]