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This is B&W HDR created from 3 exposures and converted to black and white. To me this image suggests complexity.
Complexity Science - "The study of the phenomena which emerge from a collection of interacting objects." Simply Complexity, by Nevil Johnson. Page 6.
A lot goes into designing and creating a building. It's a complex production with a lot of moving parts. The result are structures we live and work in. The spaces we find ourselves in emerge from the complexity of architecture.
When you get really invested in something you start to see similar patterns. For me, photography can be a complex production if I choose to add layers of decision making to the production of the photo. At each stage there are decisions I can make that impact what in the image is highlighted or subdued. Based off of those decisions, a new image emerges.
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The beautiful, jagged complex patterns seen on the floor of Jackson crater were formed when an asteroid slammed into the Moon at ~20 km/s (44,740 mph). This violent event likely occurred less than 500 million years ago, young by lunar standards! Jackson crater is located on the farside of the Moon centered at 21.788°N, 164.92°W. This spectacular image was taken when the Sun was low on the horizon, causing dramatic lighting to accentuate the small topographical differences in the floor of Jackson crater. There are fantastic examples inside Jackson crater of the variety of morphologies that impact melt can produce.
Why Bach? Johann Sebastian and complexity
See it on video: youtu.be/iETlDofAJZ8
State of the Net 2013
Trieste (Italy), May 31-June 1
"Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. The number of distinct scales of lengths of natural patterns is for all practical purposes infinite." The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandelbrot. Page 13.
Science has given us the ability to take materials around us and craft some amazing structures. Today's understanding of physics coupled with help from computers means our imagination is the only limiting factor when it comes to architecture.
These photos highlight the fractal like patterns we find in architecture. These patterns emerge because architecture is rooted in nature, it is informed and inspired by the natural world around us and the patterns that we find in it.
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Why Bach? Johann Sebastian and complexity
See it on video: youtu.be/iETlDofAJZ8
State of the Net 2013
Trieste (Italy), May 31-June 1
The delicate complexity of nature.
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The principal argument of Nonzero is to demonstrate that natural selection results in increasing complexity within the world and greater rewards for cooperation. The realization of such prospects is dependent upon increased levels of communication, cooperation, and trust. What is thought of as human intelligence is really just a long step in an evolutionary process of organisms (as well as their networks and individual parts) getting better at processing information.
Humans are here by the luck of the draw.
Some footage were made at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)- Social Experiment Video.
Phil Collins
He who laughs last laughs longest (2006) highlights the hysteria of televised competition. In a contest to see who can laugh longest, set in the small Scottish town where the inventor of television was born, laughter is transformed from a natural and personal expression of release into an exhausting, defeating performance.
Javier Téllez
In Letter on the Blind, for the Use of Those Who See (2007), Téllez invites a group of blind people to touch and share their perceptions of a live elephant. Inspired by the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant," Tellez updates the ancient narrative's lesson that every being experiences the same thing in a unique way.
Yael Bartana
In Wild Seeds (2005), Bartana records Israeli teens in a game, first playful, then unsettling, in which "police" pull "settlers" from a clinging group. The escalating hostility of action and dialogue-translated into English on a separate screen-echoes the conflicted sentiments in the Occupied Territories.
Photo showing impressions from "Roundtable Playing with Urban Complexity" / Fachhochschule OÖ - Hagenberg Campus (AT)
credit: Florian Voggeneder
Thorn Lichen (Cladonia uncialis)
Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary - Christmas Hill, Saanich, BC
Thorn Lichen are an important source of winter food for reindeer and caribou. Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungus; the algae cells, which provide photosynthesis for the partnership, can be seen here as the green spots on the lichen stalks.
The pink passion flower is not as hardy as the blue variety, but you still get a long flowering season. The composition and amazing detail of the flower is brilliant and to watch them unfurl is lovely.
America: One Nation, Divisible
Where Does Obama Go from Here?
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm MDT on Thursday, June 27, 2013
(Tickets Required) The president’s ambitious agenda is laden with complexity, from stagnant job growth to challenges in the Middle East to energy, climate, and education. Top journalists in the know examine the possibilities. Underwritten by Southern Company
Andrew Revkin E. J. Dionne, Jr. Ronald Brownstein Rita Braver Chrystia Freeland
Belly Up Aspen
I really liked the looks of this particular rose shrub. Remind me of the simple complexity of women, yet what do I know? These three roses are from the same shrub.
It's just a staircase, guys, there's no need to get all trigger-happy with the railings and bannisters and handrails and what-not.
Elegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace's masterful Infinite Jest. No other commentary on Infinite Jest recognizes that Wallace clearly divided the book into 28 chapters that are thematically unified.
A chronology at the end of the study reorders each section of the novel into a sequential timeline that orients the reader and that could be used to support a chronological reading of the novel. Other helpful reference materials include a thematic outline, more chronologies, a map of one the novel's settings, lists of characters grouped by association, and an indexed list of references.
Elegant Complexity orients the reader at the beginning of each section and keeps commentary separate for those readers who only want orientation. The researcher looking for specific characters or themes is provided a key at the beginning of each commentary. Carlisle explains the novel's complex plot threads (and discrepancies) with expert insight and clear commentary.
The book is 99% spoiler-free for first-time readers of Infinite Jest.
$24.95
November 30, 2007
524 pages
www.amazon.com/Elegant-Complexity-Foster-Wallaces-Infinit...
- Session Chair: David Lazer
- On the Origins of Rich and Poor Country Clusters. César A. Hidalgo
(MIT).
- Digital Access, Political Networks, and the Diffusion of Democracy.
Lauren Rhue (NYU Stern), Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern).
- Promoting National Initiatives for Technology-Mediated Social
Participation. Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland) and Jennifer Preece
(Univ. of Maryland).
Araneus diadematus female. So complex web! And you can see REALLY the genitalia of this spider! Don't look to it, myrmician, you are very young to see that!
Amazing and breathtaking details in original size.
Complexity driven collapse of economic equilibria. Bardoscia, Livan, Marsili arxiv.org/abs/1511.09203 #q-fin
2x2 model explained in Snowden and Stanbridge (2004)
Snowden, D. and P. Stanbridge (2004). "The landscape of management: Creating the context for understanding social complexity." Emergence: Complexity and Organization 6(1): 140-148.
Innovation by Design
Beautiful Complexity: Design, Business, and Technology in the Age of Trillions
10:20 am - 11:20 am MDT on Monday, July 1, 2013
Trillions of computing devices connected to each other and to us…that's a done deal. And when it happens, the very idea of computing will be turned inside out. Instead of information being in computers, people, products, and cultures will begin to live "in" the information. In this burgeoning ecology, strange new varieties of connected products, services, environments, and cultures will proliferate. Atoms and bits will connect in ways nobody can predict. With this massive connectivity, complexity will be inevitable. But untamed, malignant complexity is not. Organizations will survive and thrive in a world whose technological complexity surpasses anything we've seen yet by building systems of beautiful complexity. Join a conversation with Mickey McManus, CEO of MAYA Design and Linda Tischler, senior editor of Fast Company, as they explore sources of inspiration as we design for the future.
Mickey McManus Linda Tischler
Kresge Building, Hines Room