and transistors were invented by a Whitman alum...
Just spent 2.5 hours on a artistic (maybe?) prank. Not sure if it was worth it, but felt compelled. any way, had a productive day besides, that. Manged to do lost of work and run 16.4 miles. (for 60 on the week, next week comes 70...) Maybe some drawings to be uploaded soon, in a attempt to prove that i am not a one trick horse although they might prove the opposite. Still need to get back into the darkroom this week to do some more ice as negatives stuff, and print a shot i took in math class, for the prof. now off to do that procrastinated math hw... maybe, or pen and ink drawings... At a small risk of being caught, given that i know no one who reads this, here is the prank:(some Whitman context might be necessary but you can exercise your imagination) going to replace an original in the dinning hall.
Today in spanish class our teacher stepped out for a minute to talk to someone. Being bored i made a paper airplane and threw it across the room twice, modifying its lift the second time. (I had a math prof who was really good at making paper airplanes, and then modeling them with differential equations...) so the idea is to make a photo like this:
http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/lighttime_01/lighttime_08.html but of a paper airplane in one flight, (or maybe more....) with it appearing many times in the final image. will need a good background, but plenty of ambient light so that i can use a fast shutter speed. two quotes: one after talking to a friend about the level on mill creek and if/when it might be good to go kayak it, a third non kayaking friend said "oh, i could not tell if you were talking about kayaking or physics" 4+ hours into the physics problem set we had set up two complex (both meanings of the word) equations and were about to churn through a bunch of algebra to try and simplify them, someone i am working with says "all right i will see you on the other side...". writing this while i wait for a 5 and 10 min exposure on a non-ordinary negative. One of my artistic ideas for the day were to try and do some art that represents (ideally directly....hmm....) Einstein's Theory of special relativity. This came from seeing the MIT study with a video of light bouncing around a room, and then Doug Juers (a past physics prof) commenting that the same method could be used to shoot video of length contraction. I was not thinking that high-tech, partly because it is unavailable to me. But maybe writing a simulation of a light clock (in Java?) that shows how less time passes when one is in a frame moving relative to another.
I guess part of why i enjoy art is its ability to show people how beautiful the everyday world is. and although everyone "knows" that the speed of light is fixed and finite no one that i know of has made the fairly obvious leap of building a light clock and deriving special relativity for them selves. (its incredibly simply and gives a that elusive child-like joy of discovery. ) My other photographic idea was to spray/spritz/put/spill water onto a piece of photo-paper and then poor liquid nitrogen over it in a attempt to flash-freeze it to the paper and then make a photogram. Hopefully to tried this weekend with out suffocating my self in the dark room.... after much wolframalpha .5 liters of liquid N02 is .343 m^3 as a gas at room temp. In other words much smaller than the dark room space. p.s. spent 5 consecutive hours today doing 4 physics problems, frustrating and not satisfying circuits, still unsure about the correct answers. then spent about 2 hours doing one math proof, which was extremely satisfying... figured it out mostly during drawing class. (right/left side of the brain??)
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