One of the amazing things of living in the 21st century is the access to obscure knowledge and self-directed learning which Isaac Asimov predicted in an interview in 1988:
For example.. each second, a trillion neutrinos pass through your hand, but only about two will interact with an atom in your body throughout your entire lifetime.
You won't find any answers here except the fundamental question of asking.
…“His philosophy is not a guide that you should think like him, it’s a guide that you should think for yourself.”
In the 1950's South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world with an annual income of 67 dollars per person. Now Korea is one of the leading nations for innovation and technology .... I do not usually discuss economics as it is in my mind one unworthy of debate, at least until we have discussed the humanistic ideas that should govern our society instead. But I love the stories of Korea and Japan, and I also have a Korean last name. It is very personal to me, and I am interested in how these two nations came together to build technologically advanced societies and keep their traditions and values intact. I remember seeing Japanese teenagers talking on the phone and bowing to the person on the other end of the line. It really is a striking way of relating to others. It has always fascinated me to see a working harmony between a highly developed technological society and traditional social order.
Anyway, here we go, a snippet from a PBS/BBC documentary series produced in the 90's :
New York Times article and more pictures: http://nyti.ms/1KUCcqC
I read a New York Times review of Jurassic World where they called the movie "galumphing franchise reboot" and decided to look up the word, as I didn't remember it from Lewis Carroll’s book. Lewis Carroll invented many fun words, including "chortle".
Here is a great Oxford Dictionary article on this and other fun words. An excerpt about the portmanteaus of today:
Today there are numerous portmanteaus in the English language and the act of portmanteau-ing (yes, it’s a verb too) has become fairly linguistically productive. Some common and well-known portmanteaus include:
smog: smoke+fog Obamacare: Obama+healthcare infomercial: information+commercial jeggings: jeans+leggings breathalyzer: breath+analyzer Oxbridge: Oxford+Cambridge bromance: ‘bro’+romance
Roadside Attraction is an installation I thought of several years ago as an all American, amusement park type of work, a freak show on the side of the road or a wagon that could be part of a fair. Could be even setup on a remote country road, doesn't matter. Without and far removed from formal art experiences but using the materials and methods that belong in an artist's studio, and, of course , the provocation. Roadside Attraction was conceived as a circus at a truck stop. I have always been fascinated by American truckers, hauling large trailers on American highways. Last year I drove solo 3000 miles from Florida's Space Coast to the Silicon Valley in California where I spent a large portion of my life in a not so distant past. While on the road I had plenty of time to think, especially driving through West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. I am convinced that at that moment I had the tiniest car in all of Texas, In one small dusty town I suddenly feared that cowboys, who were prowling the nearby hills hunting boar, may actually decide to shoot my tires for fun.
So Roadside Attraction has probably lingered on the back of my head ever since I started moving across the Untied States - I once crossed the States along highway 80 ( Kansas, Colorado, etc) and once along 10 ( Mississippi, Texas, etc ), of course not counting flying. Mississippi had absolutely the worst roads I had ever come across as far as Federal Highways go. I thought I had broken an axel - my little Hundai was shaking so bad and I was in the middle of nowhere in the deep south with a tiny car full of luggage.
Recently I thought of changing the continent for Roadside Attraction which will change its spirit, which is okay. We can always make it a multi-continent adventure. More soon.
I am interested in how scientists and philosophers interpret the world we live in today, as I interpret the world as an artist. One of The Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics is the Many Worlds one - this is one of the most beautiful and favorite things of mine to read about since I absolutely understand none of it. Like Narnia for adults. I love the idea of a schizophrenic universe. To quote something I read at random on the internet: "When a universe "splits" (it doesn't really - it just looks like it has, but that's a long story), and assuming you accept consciousness as an emergent phenomena of the physical brain, then your consciousness splits too. And as events in the two universes drift apart, so do the copies of the consciousness."
Here is a paper that talks about the rise of the Many Worlds interpretation as the main challenger to the status quo interpretation:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9709032v1.pdf
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link to the original BBC documentary on BBC iPlayer, if you happen to be in the UK.
Watching the documentary I really thought the forgeries looked great and whoever made them was a genius. All art is an imitation after all.
