Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2010
What a wonderful weekend it was.
Innovative Juggler Greg Kennedy presented a panoply of juggling techniques, then with the help of amazing aerialists, inventively engineered juggling contraptions and dazzling special effects. For a lecture demonstration Kennedy showed how each performance was done based on the principles of motion, light, energy, and gravity.
Part physics presentation, part dance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2010
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Thanks for the lovely note
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2010
To everyone who made the weekend such a glittering success; performers, sponsors, attendees from Ithaca and beyond, staff and board. Stay tuned for updates on this past weekend- we hope to get some of the lectures and performances digitized and on our website.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2010
Standing room only- Gavin Sachs good humored and interetsing, Tammy Travis confident and authoritative; background of chocolate production, tempering and the final product. A lot of tasting, happy people.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2010
Klezmatics brought the house down, lines of lora dancing snaking through the State Theater, yiddish music the great unifier for people of all backgrounds. Fabulous musicianship and ensemble playing, generous encores-can’t remember a more exciting concert.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2010
What a humane and wonderful player/teacher! Fred Chiu delivered essentially a master class in the mind, body, heart connection, demonstrating through some difficult etudes by Chopin and a Liszt transcription of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. What made it special is his demonstration of his techniques for memorizing and psychological preparation. He cited the truism about a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Starfish grows crystals on its back that act as a way to measure light intensity; each one in a specific shape that all add up to visible bumps. This is exactly what Martin Kemp was describing in the previous lecture, in terms of how organic shapes build on one another. I just LOVE when you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
What is Brownian motion? Illustrated by dancers pushing each other from one to another not knowing where they would land. Had audience of 275 stand up and wave their arms around simulating movement on the nanoscale. When they move closer to one another they start moving in sync; more tightly packed.
If physicist Itai Cohen did [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
“If a picture is worth a thousand words animation is worth a million”. Fantastic animations of some of Leonardo’s drawings that explain the complicated geometry in a clear way, produced for a major Leonardo show in London last year.
Shapes we use in technology, building and design are all found on both the molecular and visible [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
We are all “shape junkies”, elemental interest in shapes. Sometimes similarities mean something, sometimes not. Artists, scientists and investigators of all kind keep asking why.
Self organized criticality: i.e. a sandpile, high probability of disaster. An artist friend who was sieving cement dust to create a pleasing micro landscape felt intuitively that it was pleasing; turns [...]