Friday, February 29, 2008

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
--Langston Hughes

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Space Kimchi (click here)


“Imagine if a bag of kimchi starts fermenting and bubbling out of control and bursts all over the sensitive equipment of the spaceship,” Mr. Lee said.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

A couple favorites from the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art:

"Perfect Lovers"
























"Athena Emerging From the Head of Zeus"

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dallas:


Monday, February 18, 2008

Landscape, Nature and Space @ Bucheon Gallery (San Francisco) opening February 22, 6-8pm. (Ruta Matamoros, 2007, oil on panel)

You are most welcome to visit this show if you're in the Bay Area!

Sunday, February 17, 2008


Pulpo: the most intelligent (as well as one of the most delicious) of all the invertebrates. (Notice how my kid didn't want to get his fingers too close to them in this photo.)

Saturday, February 16, 2008


(A tip for preparing Nopales: use a lemon zester to remove the spines.)

Friday, February 15, 2008


"Tuna? You mean they taste like tuna?"

Thursday, February 14, 2008


Question to students: "What's the scoop with the akimbo perspective orthogonals here?"

Brilliant student: "Matisse wanted to make the still-life move."

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

"Coasters"


(My husband is insane, but I love him. Happy Valentine's Day, Jesse!)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

A favorite (unedited) scene from my salt mine video last year:

Please forgive the excessively windy audio. (My friend actually assisted the wind and fanned the flying foam for this scene.)

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Another beautifully-built fence:

Friday, February 08, 2008

The Anthropocene Epoch

We've all made a new subdivision of Geologic Time--The Anthropocene Epoch!

“The term Anthropocene proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. A case can be made for consideration as a formal epoch in that since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of the previous Pleistocene interval.”

Jesús Malverde (click here)


Last month, Cervecería Minerva, a Mexican microbrewery in the central-western state of Jalisco, introduced a beer called Malverde. Company officials said they chose Malverde’s name and image for its label because he was the most recognizable and admired figure in focus groups.

“Drug smugglers drink it like holy water,” Sergeant Garcia said.

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Clever, with ingenuity and skill beyond imagining,
He veers now toward evil, now toward good...
--Sophocles

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Monday, February 04, 2008

A beautifully-built fence:

(I've started editing my house video.)

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Friday, February 01, 2008

More gestures for my students:

"It’s as if Pontormo were drawing a constantly moving model and trying to record each motion in an overlaid stop-action sequence. We don’t see a solid figure; we see the vapor trails of moving atoms."
--Holland Cotter