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 focuses on contemporary art from Brazil. On the cover is this man who is knelled down and has a bunch of lines coming out of this body. This piece of art is from Herbert Baglione. 
Other work by the same artist.
This image actually does remind of science quite a lit. The man seems as if he had like electron paths emitting from his body. As if he was the nucleus of an atom, these distressed beams revolve him- is a scattered mess. This also reminds me of the video we watched from Cal Tech about the magnetic fields present in a bunch of things in the environment. Now, although the lines are simply just spray paint, there seems to be some ornate meaning to it. Perhaps it involves the movement of the body.
This movement that I see in the picture reminds me of John’s science art work. I saw his instillation with the dandelion and his instillation with the waves. In both, John tries to capture the motion of nature, in both the past, and future states. In this Juxtapoz art, the motion is present in the lines, but the com temporary overtones are noted. The hopeless man in a futile position seems not to care about his future or past, and huddles over.
More work from that artist
On the note of the man, he is pretty generic. It reminds me of work Pinar showed us. Pinar show us these images of demented human forms, challenging what is human. In the same way, this image is grotestuqe and represents the human form in a abnormal state.
http://www.herbertbaglione.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbertbaglione/
http://www.upperplayground.com/index.php/blog/herbert_baglione
http://www.myspace.com/herbertbaglione
http://www.coolmagnetman.com/magvisual.htm
Last Friday, we presented our idea for the project that Adam gave to us, which asked us to “imagine the impossible”. Before, our project was about nanobots in a hemophiliac’s system to change their DNA and to produce Factor VIII. However, we decided that the subject lacked a creative style and “impossible” flare. Instead, my group chose to change the idea. UCLR, Unlimited Creativity Lacking Reality, is our new idea, which consists of nanobots that allow a person to create their own alternate reality without escaping the real world.
into one’s body and control the nanobots to travel to the brain. From there, the nanobots would set up on parts of the brain. A main receptor would be on the front of the brain, which mainly controls the person’s memory. This person would be able to either subtract or add to his or her reality. For example, if a person has a fight with his or her friend, they can delete them from their reality, but in the real world, the friend still exists. Or if a person has a case of stage fright, then that person can delete everyone in the room so that he can confidently speak.
Many would say that this is like an illegal substance, where you can go into a different “reality”. However, utilizing UCLR, a person could control what is in the reality. Also, instead of having horrible side effects, such as lung cancer or overdosage, there are virtually no side effects with the product. In case a person does lose a sense of reality, he or she can just go to one of our engineers to fix the problem. With a product, a person could truly “imagine the impossible”.
about how sounds can change my existence in the world. Now I do not mean to get all theological, but this day really created excitement within me.
I volunteer at a hospital and go around talking to people and I talked to this one lady for the good part of an hour about the importance of rest. Rest for the mind is extremely important. Its a chance for our conscious to relive itself of having to intake senses, having to deal with the ornate. Like how the basis of matter is nanoparticles, I believe the basis of a healthy mind is stillness. Let the troubles melt around and through you, cleansing until there is a spotless mind. This is how I felt in that chamber.
music, and I guess that shows with my interest in this lecture. Learning about the auto tune and the sound poetry and the basis of sound was mind expanding.
ast two w
eeks have been completely exhausting, yet fascinating. Not only has the dorm time been fun, but also exlporing the campus, making new friends and the lab visits have been great as well. Today was mainly used to prepare our final projects for the presentations tommorow and to recieve advice and critique from the group leaders. Didi Winner, Laura Kim, Nyrie Dikijian and I have proposed a way to cause the mass destruction of zombies when the non-fict
ease resulting in the death of a zombie. Our idea uses miltary fighter jets to spread the nanoparticles throughout designated regions so zombies can be killed in large masses rather than a single, bloody, shotgun to the head. A frequently asked question we have recieved addresses the issue of how the nanoparticles will target only the zombies rather than the entire human population. But of course our flawless process has succeeded in eliminating this problem. We have conducted research and concluded that a certain chemical called DMT, is released when eukaroiotic cells die. 
This will be our targeting method. Our nanoparticles will be attracted to large amounts of the chemical to garuntee death in zombies and to prevent the deadly nanoparticles from being attracted to small amounts of the chemical in humans, like the death of a few skin cells. This procedure will succeed because it is much more efficient than the traditional obliteration of the head via shotgun.
