I think there is still much to be learned, especially about pre-contact
North-South trade routes and, hence, cultural diffusion. I have a recent
interest in, for example, the use/role of lienzos (see www.lienzo.ufm.edu)
during that period. And there are relatively new discoveries at
places
In the book The ancient Maya from Robert Sharer
he says before we decry practices such as human
sacrifice, we should remember that Europeans of
500 years ago burned people alive in the name of
religion and submitted 'heretics' to an array of
tortures and protracted executions
I wonder why
thanks a million for this link !
a great resource for an artist who is always looking for ways to learn
these kinds of things...
best,
Joost.
On 20100428, at 0531, Owen Densmore wrote:
One of the education threads within the complex has been small,
intense courses broken down into small
Exactly. I sat there looking at the full moon and imagined Mel Gibson
whipping the solar system through 14 days of celestial mechanics in the 12
hours elapsed in the script. In my mind it made this horrible grinding
noise.
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:07 PM, sarbajit roy
Quoting VI Burachynsky Out of curiosity why 40% only , did the other
mathematicians pay someone off or get the socially correct answers ahead of
time?
Think she was alluding to those mathematicians who study other dimensions as
part of their work, or argue for their existence -- as being
I guess I find sloppiness to be an indicator of sloppiness. If you can
script the sun and moon to do something they've never done, who's to say
what other photogenic impossibilities have slipped into your story?
Clearly, if the laws of physics do not constrain your storytelling why
should the
Forwarded from Tom Barbalet's Biota list:
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Jeffrey Ventrella jeffreyventre...@gmail.com
*Date: *April 28, 2010 3:49:25 PM PDT
*To: *Jeffrey Ventrella jeff...@ventrella.com
*Subject: **Evolutionary Art Competition*
Greetings fellow artists, programmers, and idea
Eric,
Vladimir's point is too unique to be assimilated to The Germans weren't any
more rotten: they were just more efficient than the rest of us. His claim is
that brutality will tell us something about the stage of development of any
culture. Now this raises all sorts of interesting things
Hi Eric
Your observation / suggestion is brutally accurate and civilised
brutality is an index of how far the civilisation has advanced in its
life cycle. In my particular civilisation brutality is
institutionalised as follows - 'saam daam dand bhed' (sometimes
attributed to Chanakya - India's
