Jeff tagged me, and this time i’m gonna answer before everyone else who i could tag has already been tagged by someone else. A number of Jeff’s answers are identical or similar to mine, some of which i wouldn’t have thought of.
- My Childhood Ambition: To be a Zoologist, Paleontologist, Author, and later a video-game designer.
- My Fondest Memory: None stands head-and-shoulders above the others. But my time spend on Saipan came to mind first. The whole tropical island thing is as gorgeous as it looks in pictures. Or perhaps a road-trip.
- My Favorite Retreat: Other fictional worlds.
- My Wildest Dream: Founding a new school of art of philosophy or art would be neat. Designing the first video-game deemed to be on par with a work of literature. Discovering a lost civilization. Making first contact with a sapient alien race, or first setting foot on a living alien world. Having a family, with kids that go on do whichever of my wildest dreams i haven’t completed. Continue reading ‘A meme of me’
It’s time to announce Battle for Wesnoth 1.2. This is a open-source game that i’ve been involved with for 2 or 3 years. It’s developed by volunteers and is completely free. It’s a turn-based strategy game, with simple rules, which, like chess, are quite difficult to master. I find it much more enjoyable than chess, not only because it has better graphics, but because to play successfully you must be able to respond to the unexpected. Attacks are not always successful.
Continue reading ‘Battle for Wesnoth’
Al Hirschfeld is one of the best recognized masters of caricature. His bold, flat, fluid lines, and extreme distortion create a distinctive style. The fact that his artistic career lasted nearth 80 years, and the fact that he’s drawn nearly every significant entertainment personality of that period, make it quite likely that you’ve seen his work.
Click on the picture to see a YouTube video of Hirschfeld drawing. I was quite facinated to see this. From this film it looks like he does all the work on a single sheet of paper, gradually building his sketch. I expected that the fluid lines would be laid down by quick, fluid strokes, but it seems he actually scratches them out quite carefully. Of course it’s possible his rendering style has become more deliberate with age.
I’m not mathematically inclined, but i find ideas about the fundamental nature of the universe fascinating. Thus my amateurish interest in quantum physics. I would like to know if physical reality is incomprehensibly weird, or if science simply has no clue about sub-atomic particles. Of course, both may be true.
There is an obscure sub-genre of books devoted to explaining the weirder aspects of science to relatively normal people. Here are two that i’ve enjoyed: Continue reading ‘Quantum Weirdness’
Well, maybe there are new things under the sun.
Theo Jansen has built lots of these otherworldly moving sculptures, which when blown by the wind, actually walk. The one in the picture above weighs 2 tons, and can still be pulled by a single person or blown by the wind. And it has seating.
It’s hard to describe, you have to see them in motion.
Theo Jansen’s website
BMW commercial featuring these things.
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