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It was #kubkar week with the @6thdundasscouts this week with Max’s racer, and Jack’s “Kubkeption” Kar featuring a race track design, on which a race track Kub Kar is racing! Thanks to Grandpa and Mom for their contributions! #recursive #scoutsdostuff
On 13 September 2011 the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) organized a seminar with Adam M. Garfinkle, the editor of The American Interest entitled “Central Europe in the U.S. Grand Strategy: on the sidelines or on the rise?”
In the first part of his lecture Mr Garfinkle posed the question, whether the U.S. Grand Strategy does, or has ever existed. Looking back at different phases in the history of American foreign policy from as early as the First World War, Mr Garfinkle concluded, that the U.S. maintained its popularity and leadership position not thank to pursuing an admirable Grand Strategy, but rather on grounds of recursive credibility. Except for a restrained group of professionals directly in charge of foreign and security matters, most American citizens and even politicians wouldn’t be able to identify the Grand Strategy of the US.
Upon coming to the question of the place of Central Europe on the American foreign policy agenda Mr Garfinkle expressed his view with what Mr Zaborowski called “refreshing honesty”: Central Europe is, has never been and will probably never constitute a strategic interest for the U.S. During the Cold War it was dealt with as an adjunct to the USSR, nowadays as an adjunct of the European Union and Russia. The reason for this according to Mr Garfinkiel is that in Central Europe there is simply no sufficient trouble to gain voice and visibility globally: there is neither high-scale terrorism to be countered, no wars to be stopped.
Following the lecture the audience was given the opportunity to address a number of questions to the guest speaker. Mr Garfinkle was asked to outline the U.S. relations with the major poles of influence of the world, like China, Russia and the Middle East
(According to Mr Garfinkle relations with Russia are almost as frozen as during the Cold War, moreover, no spectacular improvement can be expected since “no nation can jump out of its history”. China, despite its spectacular rise, is not seen by the US as a threat at the scale of the Soviet Union formerly. Regarding the policy towards the Middle East, due to the lack of a fundamental understanding of the region itself and its culture, there is also no strategic concept of the U.S. towards this area. Policy is shaped on an ad-hoc basis through by case-by-case decisions.)
Being asked about the position the U.S. would take in the event of a Russian aggression against Poland, Mr Garfinkiel pointed out that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is malfunctional in as much as there is a gap between responsabilities the U.S. nominally assumes and its financial capabilities. Therefore, instead of relying on alliances Poland should rather focus on building its own self-defense capacity. Mr Garfinkle also indicated that the key area of concern for Polish security is Belarus, hence that is where most diplomatic efforts should be invested.
Photo by Jadwiga Winiarska
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Sep 20 2007
Transdimensional Dreamography
1. The Bulls eye. There are so many rules that beg to be broken, this week we will concentrate on those images where the subject of the photo is in the center of the image. Your job isn’t to just create an image that breaks the rule, but one that’s good because the rule is broken.
My first attempt at recursive distortion using Gimp and the mathmap plugin, not for the faint hearted!
On 13 September 2011 the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) organized a seminar with Adam M. Garfinkle, the editor of The American Interest entitled “Central Europe in the U.S. Grand Strategy: on the sidelines or on the rise?”
In the first part of his lecture Mr Garfinkle posed the question, whether the U.S. Grand Strategy does, or has ever existed. Looking back at different phases in the history of American foreign policy from as early as the First World War, Mr Garfinkle concluded, that the U.S. maintained its popularity and leadership position not thank to pursuing an admirable Grand Strategy, but rather on grounds of recursive credibility. Except for a restrained group of professionals directly in charge of foreign and security matters, most American citizens and even politicians wouldn’t be able to identify the Grand Strategy of the US.
Upon coming to the question of the place of Central Europe on the American foreign policy agenda Mr Garfinkle expressed his view with what Mr Zaborowski called “refreshing honesty”: Central Europe is, has never been and will probably never constitute a strategic interest for the U.S. During the Cold War it was dealt with as an adjunct to the USSR, nowadays as an adjunct of the European Union and Russia. The reason for this according to Mr Garfinkiel is that in Central Europe there is simply no sufficient trouble to gain voice and visibility globally: there is neither high-scale terrorism to be countered, no wars to be stopped.
Following the lecture the audience was given the opportunity to address a number of questions to the guest speaker. Mr Garfinkle was asked to outline the U.S. relations with the major poles of influence of the world, like China, Russia and the Middle East
(According to Mr Garfinkle relations with Russia are almost as frozen as during the Cold War, moreover, no spectacular improvement can be expected since “no nation can jump out of its history”. China, despite its spectacular rise, is not seen by the US as a threat at the scale of the Soviet Union formerly. Regarding the policy towards the Middle East, due to the lack of a fundamental understanding of the region itself and its culture, there is also no strategic concept of the U.S. towards this area. Policy is shaped on an ad-hoc basis through by case-by-case decisions.)
Being asked about the position the U.S. would take in the event of a Russian aggression against Poland, Mr Garfinkiel pointed out that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is malfunctional in as much as there is a gap between responsabilities the U.S. nominally assumes and its financial capabilities. Therefore, instead of relying on alliances Poland should rather focus on building its own self-defense capacity. Mr Garfinkle also indicated that the key area of concern for Polish security is Belarus, hence that is where most diplomatic efforts should be invested.
Photo by Jadwiga Winiarska
An interesting little exercise came to me. Trying to love myself never really worked for me. Basically, I would focus on something I do not love, and then try to love it. I couldn’t. But I noticed something of value: When I try to love, I create a distinction between the loving entity and...
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Domido & J.A. Limes "Recursive artist (Art Cafe) formula: For my next art step, take my best next art step. If I'm (art) done, I'm (art) done." -> Art Cafe f/2 pdf file - 03.06.2009
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The statue in the front fountain at the Queen's Park (Benjasiri Park) located next to the Emporium and Phrom Phong BTS Station.
Folded from an octagon.
Front at top and back at the bottom.
Photo diagrams kindly shared by the author at www.flickr.com/photos/dasssa/sets/72157626888588456
Diagrams also in Meenakshi's book Wondrous One Sheet Origami.
We don't collect books about books intentionally (doing so seems excessively recursive), but they do make a nice pile. Ironically, there's no room for them in any of the other bookshelves.
Another sighting of our TV on TV!!!
While watching Bruno, they showed a shot of Bruno on TV in the movie. It just happened to be *our* TV, a Sharp Aquos flatscreen. So we took a picture of our TV within our TV. Then we took it a step further and took a picture of our TV within our TV within our TV.....
Sharp Aquos TV, TV.
movie: Bruno.
recursive.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
November 8, 2009.
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A nightmarish vision of a corridor that goes on forever.
This started out with an article about the maths behind Escher's art, and proceeded via Mathmap to the tutorial below.
Several weeks experimentation produced my first satisfactory image.
The original was HDR, converted via Photomatix and then warped with the Mathmap Droste effect.
With thanks to Josh for writing this tutorial: www.flickr.com/photos/joshsommers/sets/72157594515046947/
I was told, by mall security that it was mall policy not to let people video tape inside the mall, but I felt that videotaping a videotaping of myself circumvented this illegal and fascist rule.
Advertising mural for a night club on the back of a pickup truck parked at the Metro Green Line station at Imperial Highway and Aviation Boulevard, just south of the airport.
Typical of a style of advertising art popular in LA since at least the 1970s - it includes a recursive image of this same truck, flanked by two enticing females. The actual night club is in nearby Inglewood.
In the background, by the green fence, is the location of the south end of the future Crenshaw Corridor light rail transit line, which will be elevated here to meet pre-existing turn-out stumps of the Metro Green Line. As of April 2014, work has just started here.
The sign is comical in itself: stick figure hits his head on overhanging sign. Beware!
But this is a SIGN ABOUT THE SIGN. The logic behind its existence escapes me: without the sign there, there would be no need to warn about it.
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The camera! It's a Canon Powershot. This photo is (poorly) doctored; unfortunately, the LCD goes blank at the moment you take a picture of it, so it cannot take a picture of its own display. But that's kinda how it looks.