Articles for February 2016

The artist and her tools

16KR01-15bOur photographer accompanied a pair of artists on a picture-taking expedition this past weekend. As expected, he has observations to make about old and new technology. But he was also driven to more general musings about the relationship between artists, their visions and their tools.

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The unnecessary theory

General Relativity textbookYou will have heard of the detection of gravitational waves, just announced this past week. For once the mass media haven’t over-hyped a scientific discovery: this really is an important find. We’re not going to try to explain the science behind it (there are lots of articles on line and offline that do that). It’s the fact of the 100-year gap between the theoretical prediction and the actual observation that tells us something about the nature of science.

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“Outside the proper scope”

What you can do, and what you should do

manualIn the Five Colors Science & Technology library of photography are a number of old books that we still find interesting. Apart from details of procedures and chemistry that are hard to find elsewhere, they show the different ideas, through the years, of just what was a good photograph.

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The old fencer and the cheap watch

The unexpected usefulness of old and new things

alumni15Our navigator had the pleasure of attending a fencing match this past weekend as a spectator.  The range in ages of the participants was unusually large, which highlights some important considerations about newer and older people and things.

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