"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

Teresa Stanley (click here)

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.

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

"Perfect Lovers"
























"Athena Emerging From the Head of Zeus"

Dallas:

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!

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.)

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

"Tuna? You mean they taste like tuna?"

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

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

"Coasters"


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

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.)

Another beautifully-built fence:

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.

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

Katherine Simon (click here)

A beautifully-built fence:

(I've started editing my house video.)

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