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The Sound and the Fury

By lucygao | Published: July 17, 2009

As I once mentioned in another blog entry, it seems like we’ve observed Sci|Art through all the senses in the past two weeks. In fact, just this Wednesday, we had Mr. Tyler Adams talk to us about sound and hearing. Additionally, we went to the anechoic chamber, which was quite the unique experience.

First off, just hearing about sound warping technologies was amazing. (Ex: Songsmith, Auto-tune, Vocoding.) I never truly thought about how people must have ways to manipulate their music to make it in tune. I’d really like to try it myself some day. 😉

Now the concept of how it used to be impossible to capture sound is a funny one. When you really think about it, grabbing on to sound is so infeasible, yet now we can do it. The reading of sound waves and being able to hold onto it is quite something indeed. Tangible sound, vibration… then comes cymatics. This area of study is quite intriguing, as acoustics, such as in concert halls, is always a hard concept for me to grasp.

How could simply designing a building change the way I hear something?

But after stating the question, the answer is quite obvious. Seeing as sound travels in waves, it can bounce back against other objects. Like ripples in a pond. This idea because evident in my head. Other materials are what either amplify or reduce sound, and therefore people can purposely manipulate sound in that manner.

The anechoic chamber was a separate feeling on its own, through its manipulation of sound. Only in that type of silence can one listen to his or her own sounds—the sounds of the body.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

http://www.antarestech.com/

http://www.cymaticsource.com/

http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/sound.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-anechoic-chamber.htm

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Blog 8

By henrygridley | Published: July 17, 2009

Today is my last full day here at UCLA. It has been a good two weeks. I learned a lot of information about science and art, but mostly science. The labs were my favorite part of the experience. I think ferrofluids are really cool and I was blown away when I heard we were making some. I always thought that it was just another science topic that existed and I would never really see or have hands-on time with. The exploration of things like that was definitely the best. Also watching sci-fi movies that I probably would have never watched on my own was really fun. Bladerunner was a cool movie, definitely one of the best of the sci-fi genre. Also the projects were a lot of fun but also a lot of work. I think it would have been more beneficial to have the project proposals due earlier than the 1st Friday. It would ease a lot of the tension of the following week. Even though my group was done early Thursday night, it would have been nice to have not had the rush of the last few days. Some groups are still working on their projects as I write this blog, I do not envy them. Considering the groups have to present tomorrow, sleep deprivation is anything but helpful.I had a lot of fun filming my project and editing it with my group. I was pretty skeptical of a video project throughout the beginning of our planning period because I knew how long that video projects could take with filming and editing. Eventually I caved and thus the video commenced and now that its finished I am quite proud of it, even though it was censored. The cocaine scene was quite funny, I thought, but I can clearly see why parents might have an issue with it. All in all it has been a great two weeks, but its finally over. w00t!!!11!!1 super-lung hedrick1-copy

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lasssttt dayyy

By davidbrown | Published: July 17, 2009

So today was the last day of our lives. Just kidding, just for the past two weeks. Our lives have been this class, I eat sleep and drink nanotechnology. Do you know what I was thinking about this whole class? That in some parallel universe somethings are definitely not happening and decisions are and are not happening. That in some parallel universe some of our decisions will not happen and some will . Things like these can totally change our path of our lives, our destinies would be different. Everything owuld be differnt. Like suppose the decision to go to this class and meet these eople and have this experience was alll decided on a simple stupid decision. On a different planet where we are allive, we could be new people. With these people that are on a different planet doing all these things that we w ould not do, we can see how we would turn out. Personally I think I would be smarter and more ambitious, hopefully I would make better decisions.

Another idea I have is that our universe is hand held in a person apart of another universe. There is no size or scale in the universe, for all we know wecan be huge and we can be the biggest universe in the spectrum. Imagine if the our solar system was like an atom. If our electrons moved randomly which would correspond to the planets. The idea of our planets moving in a perfect oval would be obliterated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics

http://www.physics.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology

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Ji-7/14/09

By jonathaniheonu | Published: July 17, 2009

Today was another one of the better days as we did some hands-on experiments, in addition to the daily introduction that included some many concept technologies that may be coming in the future. I found Nokia’s morph a great example of innovation and creativity as it was a convenient device that served many purpose. Another one of the inventions produced by scientist was the finger thing (forgot the name) the main feature that caught my attention was the ability to scan and find information on objects, including other people and find information about them. This was one of the things that I wouldn’t expect to come to be possible and so I learned to have more faith in the sciences when it comes to inventing a new device.

nokiamorph1

Later on in the day, our first attempt at creating a Ferro fluid did not work out so well, but when we did succeed, the results were fruitful. Losing interest after the first few minutes, I came to learn the manipulation of a magnetic liquid such as Ferro fluid, similar to the moon’s pushing and pulling of the ocean, can open many doors to the sciences and create a possibly new form of hydro power.

After the Ferro fluid experiment we then went on to creating litho grams with copper. I actually did not learn much from this experiment nor did I find it fun at all since we did not do anything ourselves. The litho grams are a nice thing to bring back home though.

http://www.masterworksfineart.com/art/printmaking.html#2

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/mr_materials_010905-1.html

http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/nishiyama-lab/Research.html

http://www.conceptcarz.com/

untitled_lithograph

http://www.concept-phones.com/

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It’s been 2 weeks already?

By annejeng | Published: July 17, 2009

I can still recall the day I arrived at UCLA. Never did I ever expect that the next two weeks would go by so quickly and be so much fun. I have learned all sorts of new information about nanotechnology and have befriended a lot awesome people.

Of all the things I have gained here, one of the things I treasure the most is receiving is a refreshed enthusiasm for the future. Learning about nanotechnology has given me a new insight into what science and art can accomplish when combined.

Just watching the sci-fi movies and listening to instructors lecture about the most recent form of technology has shown me that I am in an age

flying car from Blade Runners

where almost anything can be possible. Perhaps on screen, flying cars and
human-replicant robots may seem far-fetched, but I learned that thinking about the future is all about “imagining the impossible”.

These last two weeks have been challenging, educational, and entertaining. I have been taught to see science in a more holistic view and to notice the mutual relationship between science and art. I’ll never forget what I was taught here, and hopefully one day I may used what I learned to contribute to the world.

Transformers in the future?

http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/UCLAViewPhoto.shtml
http://dstroyr.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/spinner-blade-runner.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/real-transformer-movie-5.jpg
http://science.howstuffworks.com/real-transformer.htm/printable
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/tp/Future_Techno.htm

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Ji 7/13/09

By jonathaniheonu | Published: July 17, 2009

Coming back from a decent weekend, the second week started off with a kick. I actually enjoyed the lecture on Space-time and gravity. I still fail to understand the concept of the earth rotating on a dip-like structure in space. There was also some talk on fluid movement in air and water and as an example a lobster’s swim was used.

spacetime_curvature

I stayed awake through the entire lecture. One of the unfortunate things of the day was that it involved a lot of walking, but that however was made of for in the plasma lab. The study of plasma is one of my favorite fields in science considering it is not seen too often on earth, but is all over the universe. I never knew the sun was a source of plasma however, and this causes me to look at the sun at a different perspective. The only thing that I was disappointed about after the tour was that we did not see any actually experiments involving plasma, but rather some machines just producing it.

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Before the plasma lab however, we went to a museum and looked at some Australian (I think) paintings. I really did not like this. After the plasma lab, we went to a biomedicine to see special collections. I am not much of a collector and even though some of the books and models were valued greatly by some, I did not care to much. I did enjoy this much more than the museum although I fell asleep, but that was only because we had a chance to sit down and it was the last tour of the day after much walking.

http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasma4StateMatter.html

http://cpmi.uiuc.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/aura/web/index.html

http://bigbang.ws/articles.asp?id=73

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Shaun Herzig

By shaunherzig | Published: July 17, 2009

PLASMA! Today we visited the UCLA plasma labs. The first machine we saw teased us. No one knew too much about the fourth state of matter but I assumed that it moved like a viscus liquid. It didn’t. we saw “flashes” of plasma in the first machine each flash lasted only milliseconds and was being recorded and documented. The machine itself was huge. A giant steel tube ringed by puple and blue electromagnets which when turned on to full power took more electricity to use than all of Westwood. After we saw the giant tube we went deeper into the lab. The lower levels housed a gargantuan cylinder. The old tube was about as tall as I am and was the length of a small bus. The cylinder was easily triple my height and as big around as the auditorium at C(n)SI. When we looked inside the flash was gone. Replaceing the flash was a racing blur of plasma that circled the cylinder three times making three glowing red rings. The behavior of this form of mater seemed almost sentient. This solidified my understanding of the mixture of art and science. The beauty of the plasma was easy to see also easy to see is the science necessary for its existence. Even to keep it around for under a seocond! Indeed new arts could easily be created through this pinnacle of modern science. The plasma lab is deffinitly a culmination of what we learn here at art sci. its both at the same time. Its art and science. But not separately its both at the same time you cant take one aspect away without taking the other.

high-definition-plasma-cutter images4 plasma22

links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)

http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasma4StateMatter.html

http://home.howstuffworks.com/plasma-cutter.htmhttp://home.howstuffworks.com/plasma-cutter.htm

http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=6820

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/plasmalab/

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Final Blog

By alexandrakhitun | Published: July 17, 2009

sciartpplz So, today is the last day of this wonderful program, and I am quite sorry to realize this fact. The dorm rooms are experiencing a high degree of chaos, people are running past our door at around one person per five seconds, and nobody seems to plan on sleeping. Of course the universal plan is to OD on caffeine in the morning tomorrow. Ahh college life.

Our room recently got ransacked by two people that were wrestling each other for a cell phone, but is now pervaded with a serene atmosphere of a good work ethic as we work on on projects and our blogs. I am entertained by clips of our newly filmed Look Around You episode that is currently been perfected by our editor Lucy Gao.

I can not believe that two weeks have passed by so quickly and that in less than 24 hours we will be dispersed to different parts of the country, different parts of the world really.

Through this program I learned that I love nanoscience and that I do want to pursue this in the future, I discovered Look Around You, my new obsession, and of course I met some pretty cool people with whom I plan to stay in touch forevermore.

So thank you art sci , for a great summer experience.

http://www.nano.gov/html/edu/careers.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You

http://www.ehow.com/how_1584_manage-time-college.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2248_stop-procrastinating-habit.html

http://www.ucla.edu/

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Books & Plasma

By kwanghomyung | Published: July 17, 2009

Visiting both the plasma lab and the library of rare books today was an extremely unique experience. In the library, we were exposed to books that were worth up to the thousands of dollars just because of the history they wen book t through. The book may be common, and printed in mass amounts worldwide, but it’s the experience or signatures the book goes through which makes it unique. For example, the one book was worth thousands because it had been in space. I found it amusing that the librarian made us sign a book before we left, which I suspect he’ll sell if one of us hopefully becomes rich or famous (I hope we do). After the short visit to the library, we visited the plasma lab, which was truly not as interesting. Plasma is basically the fourth state of matter that makes up most, if not all, of outer space. In this lab, plasma was created and suspended by whirling magnets. These magnets would repel the plasma so it wouldn’t touch anything, because the plasma would immediately disintegrate anything in its path. The concept of creating, and maintaining plasma seemed interesting, but the entirety of the lab visit was dull. We could see plasma, but it wasn’t as unique as I thought. We had to peer carefully into chambers, where we would only be flashed with beams of light from the plasma every few seconds. It wasn’t very interesting, and it certainly didn’t attract much of my attention as I am more of a hands-on learner.

plasma5

http://www.plasmas.org/what-are-plasmas.htm

http://education.jlab.org/qa/plasma_01.html

http://www.cslplasma.com/s1/cs/enps/1165268013126/content/1165268012845/content.htm

http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/16/most-expensive-books-tech-media-cx_ee_books06_0116expensivebooks.html

http://www.abebooks.com/docs/RareBooks/10-expensive-2006.shtml

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Day 6 – Harry Potter?

By Gabriela Rosales | Published: July 17, 2009

Hm the movie wasnt as good as I expected. But that is okay. Hollywood can most definatly not catch up to the amazing magic behind Harry Potter. Or is it magic? What keeps the brooms flying on mid air? Why is there a random lack of gravity when the balls are thrown out. Well as i was looking through this stuff i found this book that apparently talks about all this.. How amazingly interesting. I might check it out someday when i decide to understand harry potter a little better. Meep. I am actually quite sleepy=(

Someone brought up the idea of the invisible cloak. Apparently there has been some stuff researched on that in Tokyo. sugoi (Japanese for Cool I believe). Eh.. for some reason it’s not letting me put up an image thingy. Rawr…

Well lets continue on the hunt for scientifical stuff in Harry Potter… Hm i cant find anything more interesting. Ah It is getting late. Well let’s talk about the movie. I fell sleep through part of it for some reason I lost interest and the ni woke up because something scared me in the middle of it. I think I should re-read the books. Again. Just for the fun of it. I need to start my summer reading for school actually…. hm.. I think I will come back to this blog.