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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Greg Kennedy was a hopeless math geek, he says. He also describes himself as obsessive compulsive who probably would be medicated today. Very inspiring. He says he can concentrate on strategy and physical movement for hours at a time.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Started with a film about gravity and how distance between objects affects the gravitational pull. He’s structuring lecture demo by doing some of the routines he did at State Theater last night preceded by explanation of how they work
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Greg Kennedy is getting ready for show, brought a lot aof the equipment from last night’s spectacular for the lecture demo this morning. He is so gracious!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2010
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon in a chef’s hat ; violinist Susan Waterbury wearing a chili-pepper apron and playing her heart out for Bruce Adolphe’s Bitter Sour Salt Suite; happy, sold-out audience. What a great way to start the seventh annual LIW festival!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010
Because they’re donating chocolate cake, lemon meringue pie and mixed nuts to be given out at “Bitter Sour Salt Suite” Thursday January 21st at 7pm at Wildfire Lounge. Why? Ithaca College President Tom Rochon and violinist Susan Waterbury will show you why. Seating is limited!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
Ken Libbrect has taken literally thousands of photos of one of the world’s most intricate and fragile subjects: snowflakes.
On October 5th, 2006, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a commemorative set of four first-class postage stamps featuring his snowflake photographs. Over three billion stamps were printed and quickly sold out for holiday mailing.
For a sneak-peek at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
On Saturday January 23rd, Light and Winter will present Dance of Scales, a performance about the movement of organisms at the nano, micron, and millimeter scales, and beyond. Dance of Scales is the result of a collaboration between choreographer Maren Waldman, physicist Itai Cohen and Redshift Productions’ Max Evjen and Megan Halpern. The Light in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
On Saturday January 23rd at 1PM the Light in Winter Festival will present Art Historian Martin Kemp as he explores the ways in which scientists and artists perceive the world and respond to its patterns. In Structural Intuitions in Art, Science and Technology he shows how “structural intuitions” are reflected in visual arts, science, architecture [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2010
On Saturday January 23 at 4:30 in Cornell’s Statler Auditorium Ithaca-born and internationally known concert pianist and teacher Frederick Chiu will concentrateon the mind-body relationship in musical performance. He will play and talk about a set of Chopin Etudes, focusing on the physical challenges of the pieces, and demonstrating their mental and emotional challenges. He [...]