Seeing Turrell’s Skyspace
My friend and I arrived at James Turrell’s Skyspace, at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse, just before sundown. When I asked another visitor if we ...
Nikola Tesla’s hidden contribution
Nikola Tesla is a hero to geeks everywhere, who will be celebrating his birthday this week. World-famous in his lifetime, the prodigiously gifted inventor fell ...
Asteroid Sighting
The Asteroid Belt Almanac celebrated its launch yesterday, at a great event put together by the publishers, The Head & the Hand Press. Great venue ...
Mark Twain & Crowdfunding
I've just written a guest post for The Head & The Hand Press, considering how Mark Twain's innovations in publishing could be seen as a ...
The Asteroid Belt Almanac
What if Poor Richard’s Almanac were reimagined for today? The Asteroid Belt Almanac, coming soon from The Head and the Hand Press in Philadelphia, is all ...
Opera, Real and Surreal
“Opera permits us to go into a world that is not real.” This was spoken by Nicole Paiement, artistic director of Opera Parallèle, about halfway ...
Gravity and the Noosphere
I loved seeing Gravity. In my opinion, the Planet Earth should be nominated for a supporting-player Oscar. I drank in the massive, stunning views of ...
James Turrell and sacred architecture
James Turrell’s installations at the Guggenheim left me in an altered state. Using light as his primary medium, Turrell’s art requires slow looking and an ...
Out of Print — What’s happening to books?
We’re living through a slow-motion earthquake in the world of books. The massive shift from printed books to e-books and other digital formats may be ...
How Tesla kidnapped my imagination
There’s something about the inventor Nikola Tesla that has strongly attracted artists—much more than his arch-rival Edison, let's say. Tesla’s amazing life and grand visions ...
