mexico fever

the cuban cigars/tequila reprimands my all-confusing-head-basket

                     skin turned minority to majority in less time then an oil change

                                        i embraced the lugubrious none doing, while accounting all my measures and expenditures

                                                   the veracious sun gives too much! so i sacrifice melatonin and consume 3 mouth fulls of sea water (which cleans out my odoriferous chasm),

           next time you see the sun look straight at it until you see the violent silence.

-m

Beauty of Big Fields

These shots are of the Big Field farm. I find it interesting how perfect some of the tracks are, whoever was driving was paying close attention, or it was the GPS doing the work. You'll notice the small spring in the lower part of the shot, and the road just below that. The area pictured here is of the land to the northwest of the small canyon as your just arriving at the farm.



-Reese

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From Bizarro, h/t to c&l.

Reese

micros_copy

this specimen was found in a mushroom with two weeks of decomposition.

the music extends well beyond the clip, but please try to watch/listen.

mitchell

When What Should Appear

A carol
Dickens
Not even elves
Could have timed
December homeless
Between pine

No miniature
No reindeer
Just flash of rind
Through Sistine fingers
Longhand-yellow
In snow

Then obvious
Pull of blue jeans’
Slow
Re-arranged
Relief

President Bush

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

This is a better close up of the last commissioned piece I did. I thought to add a little more information about the man Vitruvius...I detailed the work to fit his life rather than the very famous Leonardo Da Vinci image.
Holli

Here is some more information about him from wikipedia...

Vitruvius is most famous for asserting in his book De architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas — that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful. According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. As birds and bees built their nests, so humans constructed housing from natural materials, that gave them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building, the ancient Greek invented the architectural orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. It gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body. This led Vitruvius in defining his Vitruvian Man, as drawn magnificently by Leonardo da Vinci: the human body inscribed in the circle and the square (the fundamental geometric patterns of the cosmic order).

Vitruvius is sometimes loosely referred to as the first architect, but it is more accurate to describe him as the first Roman architect to have written surviving records of his field. He himself cites older but less complete works. He was less an original thinker or creative intellect than a codifier of existing architectural practice. It should also be noted that Vitruvius had a much wider scope than modern architects. Roman architects practised a wide variety of disciplines; in modern terms, they could be described as being engineers, architects, landscape architects, artists, and craftsmen combined. Etymologically the word architect derives from Greek words meaning 'master' and 'builder'. The first of the Ten Books deals with many subjects which now come within the scope of landscape architecture.

The Four Horsemen - Hour 1

"On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion."

Hour 1 of the discussion between the four great proponents of rationalism/atheism is brilliant and illuminating, mental candy indeed. Link to Dawkins site here, where you can find hour two of the discussion.

Enjoy!

Reese

Neil deGrasse...beware

Partial video of the 2006 Beyond Belief conference presented by the Science Network. Neil deGrasse's entire speech can be found by following the link above, or by simply clicking here. The most recent conference (dubbed enlightenment 2.0), held just a couple of weeks ago, is now online, and after having subjected myself to the numerous and dense hours of lectures I am compelled to suggest you do the same. As a theme for the 2007 conference, it was suggested this quote from Ibn al-Haytham, an 11th century Muslim mathematician, be used...

Truth is sought for itself—Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency...

Reese

Big Brother Checking In