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A pun on a common path integral Oil on canvas, 12" by 12" original Green functions are a special type of integral. In calculus, integrals provide methods for adding up functions and trends. Everyday single integrals work in 2 dimensions. A function creates a curve on the plane and solving its integral tells you how much total area the function covers. A green function is a path integral. Path integrals are special kinds of integrals. Imagine that the normal integral measures the area under a curve sitting on a plain piece of paper. If the same curve was drawn on top of a paper with a picture on it, a normal integral would still tell you how much of the paper's area was under the function. But what if you wanted to know the "value" of all of the colors the function passed through? That would require a path integral. Path integrals can be very useful for examining functions that exist in fields - where instead of an empty paper or box, each piece of the space holding the function has values associated with it (electric field strength, color, temperature, etc.). Green functions in particular are used to describe particle motion in fields. They can be translated into little squiggles - Feynman Diagrams - which can be worked geometrically to simplify the set of integrals before solving. In polymers, we use an integral called the "Edwards Integral" instead, which is a close relative of the Green function. In this case the "path" follows the actual shape of the polymer backbone. But Edwards integrals don't really suggest a reason for lots of lovely green paint. In the course of learning arithmetic, algebra, calculus and other mathematics I've always pictured the numbers, variables, and equations as animate. Perhaps assigning personalities an backstories to numerals was my way of compensating for not having any dolls to play with. Of course Green functions are crazy loopy beasts in a scintillating blue field. This one looks like it suffered some injury when the first year grad students attempted numerical integration (and is that a failed attempt at renormalization I see?) That's one hairy function!
Artist: Regina Valluzzi
Qing Dynasty
In China, small silk pouches have been worn at the waist since the Tang dynasty (618-907) to compensate for the lack of pockets in traditional Chinese clothes. Royals from the Qing Court were similar pouches on girdles when attending state rituals and ceremonies, as depicted in an 18th-century court dress edict. The materials and decoration of the bags came to represent the status of the wearer.
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Bags: Inside Out
(July - January 2022)
Bags: Inside Out is the UK's most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the ultimate accessory. With an exclusive look inside the world of the factory and atelier, this exhibition explores our longstanding fascination with the bag, from designer handbags to despatch boxes, vanity cases to military rucksacks.
Bags project bold statements to the outside world whilst concealing our most treasured belongings. Featuring around 300 objects, varying in scale from tiny purses held on a fingertip to luxurious travel trunks, the exhibition explores the function, status and craftsmanship of these highly covetable objects from the 16th century to today.
The first section of the exhibition examines bags as practical objects designed to hold our belongings – from holiday outfits to confidential documents, make-up to money and even gas masks.
Titled Status and Identity, the second of the exhibition sections looks at the central role of the bag in celebrity culture as well as its notoriety amongst the political and societal elite.
The use of bags as a blank canvas for slogans, personal statements and political messages and their role as a public platform to share beliefs and convictions is represented through objects including an anti-slavery reticule bag from 1825, the 'I am NOT a Plastic Bag' tote by Anya Hindmarch and a 'My Body My Business' handbag by artist and activist Michele Pred.
The final section of the show will look at the Design and Making process from sketch to sample, sewing to selling. A 'maker's table' will allow visitors to get up close with bag making processes and materials, alongside newly commissioned interviews with designers and makers.
A hotbed for collaboration, the bag offers an opportunity for experimentation and statement designs. A 17th-century purse in the shape of a frog, Thom Browne's handbag in the form of his dog Hector and a Chanel bag transformed into a milk carton will explore the surrealism and humour evoked through accessories.
The exhibition finishes with designers experimenting with innovative and environmentally sustainable materials.
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Hand-crafted, hand-assembled, hand-painted sculptural relief which blurs the distinction between art and design.
A stand-alone fine art piece which invites the interplay of light and shadow to define its geometry and topography...the work also functions as a highly textural surface treatment with architectural and interior applications (walls, ceilings, doors) as well as furniture items (credenzas, bars, space dividers, etc).
Materials: Wood, automotive finishes
Dimensions: Variable
I chose the Greeley Fire Department's training tower to use as a metaphor for function. This building was built specifically & has no potential to function as anything other than a practice tool for emergency protocol, yet something so simple teaches brave individuals to save lives.
Laredo is a fully functioning recreation of a late 1800's town in the American West. It recreates times gone by to the highest standard.
The town represents the American Wild West as it would have been in 1865 to 1889. It has has 24 buildings including a two-story Hotel with reception area, full-size saloon bar, theatrical-stage, double staircases leading to six-guest-bedrooms.
Located just twenty miles from London. All the building interiors are fully furnished and correctly decorated to the period. All available props are fully researched and would have been used within the time period. This resource is unique and is not available anywhere else in the UK.
Along the street is a Saloon, Marshals Office, working Blacksmiths, Livery Stables, General Store, Gunsmith, Wells Fargo, Wet-Plate Photographers Studio, Assay Office, Bank, Doctor/Dentist, Saddlery, Undertaker, Texas Rangers, Mining Company, Barber, Bakers, Cantina, Tobacconist, Attorneys Office and a Guest House. Complete with boardwalks, hitching rails, horse troughs, shop signage all strung along an unmade old western style street
Laredo was founded in 1971 by keen western enthusiast John Truder. The Laredo Western Club was formed when the group started to grow and needed a more structured organisation. The beginnings of the town started some years later and has gradually grown to what you see today.
Laredo Western Town is not open to the general public.
The artwork of Guy Levesque who has a shop/gallery in Vieux Quebec, Quebec City. He graciously allowed me to take a few photos of his trade. If you've seen Cirque du Soleil, you have seen his work.
Whatever the level of your sexual function, it will take a negative hit after any of the treatment options. As a rule the better your function before treatment the better it will be after treatment and the better chance it will recover. Radiation affects it over time but not initially...but affects it just the same. Surgery affects it up front...but has the potential to recover with time. You need to know the difference.
Taken during the 2014 FIA WEC 6 Hours of the Americas at Circuit of the Americas. Taken with my Sony SAL1680Z lens while standing in the paddock.
A close up view of the switches in the cockpit of the Protype Challenge number 25 8Star Motorsports Oreca FLM09AF.
Attending a sports car race at COTA is something that must be done for any gearhead. An open pit and paddock make for unrivaled access to the cars. I was literally able to stick my face in the cockpit of a purpose built racecar while it sat in the team garage.
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The interior of this military plane emphasizes function over form. Instead of pretty panels hiding the cables and pipes, they are exposed for easy access. This chart makes it easier to identify the function of the multitude of color-coded cables. This practical touch probably saved many air crews by allowing quick servicing of planes damaged in combat.