Monday, April 26, 2010
Electroliquid Aggregation Quote
Black Box Slide
This slide stood out from the rest to me as from the disarray of shapes, shades, sizes of font and texture, strangely enough a weird sense of grid structure or link is subtly established. When observed from a closer point of view the boxes containing text all are linked together through one line travelling from one box to another. The lines suggest continuity from one textbox to another, perhaps symbolising a journey from which the viewer may travel or see. The jagged lines and illegible font partially obstructing the journeying line exemplifies a complicated, journey through which the viewer is guided through. However what I dislike about the slide is the utility of the design embellishments. Are the lines, circles colour shading all just there for the sake of design or do they have any purpose is a question which I ask, and one which I am not able to answer.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Exp 2 - Quotes
Nicole Kuepper
"It could enable people to read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines" - Nicole Kuepper
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/34581/221132/100310cwweekquotes.htm
Charles Darwin
"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form."
—On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1859
Stephen Hawking
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 8
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/stephen_hawking_god_religion.html