Fish in the sink

A Walk In The Woods

Beaver Snack

.... Reminds me of one of my favorite Onion articles: Beaver Overthinking Dam

Beavers are cute.

And good role models for artists (architects & construction workers too)... being such good builders and all...

Tracks

Raccoon

Bunny

Deer

Train

Footnote to Monet

.. At the gas station in Swanton, VT. What would Walter say...

Christmas Carrot

Chance Present

A bit more Glitz & Glitter.
Still flirting with Lady Luck?
Still deciphering the game?
Or are we stuck in a marriage of convenience & philandering with a
quick fix that has no future...

Chance History @ SFO

Gaming machines from the mechanical age.
The gears and levers of luck.
Let us try our hand.
Let us shape in wood & steel & paint that mechanism that throws
fortune our way, those channels by which our present is shaped and our
futures re-alligned.
Let us build, and in building, let us approach an understanding of the
play.

Echoes of a Past Life

Sponges

Christine Kesler & Grace Rim @ NOMA Gallery

Two Great Shows at NOMA Gallery



CHRISTINE KESLER

In A World Where You Are Possible

Through January 17th, 2010

Christine Kesler (left) with Kelly Lynn Jones

Kesler will be a featured artist on Jones' Little Paper Planes next month!

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GRACE RIM
Flow
Through January 17th, 2010

On Display

Empty Vitrines are almost as exciting as filled ones...

Tom Bonauro @ The Curiosity Shoppe

This book is great.

Go look at it.

It's there through December.

Passion Flowers

Red Tailed Hawk

On the corner of 24th & Florida
Right Now!!

Like bonding with Like

This bottle was stuck in the grate but the orange of it really wanted
to be with the orange of the resting barricade. Now it is content, and
they are peaceful.

Yves?

Rain Paints A Picture

With the leaves in San Francisco.

Conrad Ruiz @ Silverman Gallery

Toban Nichols @ Adobe Books

December 11th - January 10th

Nichols developed an algorithm that replaced every 4th word in Vogues Book of Etiquette with the word "PUSSY'....

and objects, and objects...

"... including...

... ultraluminous galaxies that are breeding stars copiously inside shrouds of dust..."

photo by Chris Hetlage

(On what NASA expects to see with its new WISE)

FULL ARTICLE TEXT by Dennis Overbye

New Blue Chromophore

Mn³⁺ in Trigonal Bipyramidal Coordination

"The researchers were trying to make compounds with novel electronic properties, mixing manganese oxide, which is black, with other chemicals and heating them to high temperatures.

Then Mas Subramanian, a professor of material sciences, noticed that one of the samples that a graduate student had just taken out of the furnace was blue."

FULL TEXT

-New York Times: Kenneth Chang

"We show that trivalent manganese, Mn³⁺, imparts an intense blue color to oxides when it is introduced at dilution in trigonal bipyramidal coordination. Our optical measurements and first-principles density functional theory calculations indicate that the blue color results from an intense absorption in the red/green region. This absorption is due in turn to a symmetry-allowed optical transition between the valence-band maximum, composed of Mn 3d_x²−y²,xy states strongly hybridized with O 2p_x,y states, and the narrow Mn 3d_z²-based conduction-band minimum. We begin by demonstrating and explaining the effect using a well-defined prototype system: the hexagonal YMnO₃−YInO₃ solid solution. We then show that the behavior is a general feature of diluted Mn³⁺ in this coordination environment."

MORE INFO

-Journal of the American Chemical Society