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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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Last weekend (5-7.06.09) I had the marvelously chance to visit Grant Diffendaffer's work shop "Recursive Beads" in Liechtenstein (Switzerland). It was absolutely gorgeous, I've learned so much, and Grant is a very pleadant person and a good teacher.
These beads are not perfect, they are my first tries. They'll become better, I'm sure!!!
yes that's me wearing a shirt of me wearing a shirt of me. i'm writer, producer, director and star of my autobiopic! also my head is lumpy and the shoes look like socks and little-me is wearing tights for prancing around.
1. Top Petals Of Sunflower Square Crop, 2. December 2007 Snow 017, 3. Rosa Rugosa Alba Rosebud In October, 4. Sunset Lighting Up Clouds Rubik's Cube On Black, 5. Hoverfly On Red Petunia, 6. Injured Female Monarch Butterfly 001, 7. Orange-And-Yellow Nasturtium 002, 8. Chinese Geese Square Crop 001,
9. Herby, 10. Viceroy Butterfly 008, 11. Backyard Pink Shirley Poppy 002 - Papaver Rhoeas, 12. Second Viceroy Butterfly Photo Of 2009, 13. One Last Pink Bleeding Heart For 2009 Extreme Close-Up, 14. Male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, 15. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 16. Aphrodite Butterfly Up Close 006,
17. Monarch Butterfly On Purple Coneflower 027, 18. Red Admiral Butterfly Square Crop, 19. New Fragrant Hyacinth Up Close 001, 20. Christmas Tree Decorated 001, 21. Rose, Therese Bugnet, 22. Rosa Rugosa Alba Rosehip, 23. Busy Honeybee In Hollyhock Video, 24. Fourth Two-Tone Purple Tall Bearded Iris - Iris Germanica,
25. Monarch Butterfly With Wings Opened Picnik, 26. Cute Young Cat Picnik, 27. Canyon Cupido Mini Rose In October 2007 Cropped, 28. Orange Nasturtium 001, 29. Cannas Mosaic, 30. Orange Asiatic Lily Cropped 002, 31. Viceroy Butterfly 006, 32. Lots Of Lily Of The Valley 005,
33. Small Yellow Tulip With Red Rectangle Picnik, 34. Christmas Buddies Snowy Picnik, 35. Male Monarch Butterfly Picnik, 36. Pretty Pink Rose Square Crop, 37. Monarch Butterfly Being Attacked Square Crop, 38. Two Pink Shirley Poppies, 39. Red Dahlia HDR 002, 40. Yellow Calendula 002,
41. American Goldfinches 004, 42. Chipmunk In Downspout Square Cropped, 43. Pansy Square Cropped 004, 44. Cute Tabby Kitten, 45. Bleeding Hearts, White - Dicentra Spectabilis Alba, 46. June 26th, 2009 Sunset 002, 47. Cute Young Cat Circle 001, 48. Red-Breasted Nuthatch,
49. Male Monarch Butterfly Square Crop, 50. Male Downy Woodpecker Recursive, 51. Cute Chipmunk Cropped 001, 52. Purple Coneflower From The Side 002, 53. Momma Chipping Sparrow With Food, 54. Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly 003, 55. One-Quarter Moon In West Sky, 56. White Tall Bearded Irises,
57. Spruce Trees With Snow Panorama 002, 58. Pinza Narcissus On Black, 59. Chickadee On Silver Leaf Dogwood Branch Cropped, 60. Monarch Butterfly Glowing 013, 61. One Last Indian Summer Sunflower, 62. Double Santa Fe Sunflower Up Real Close 002, 63. Freak Of Nature Dahlia Sepia, 64. Good-Bye To A Beautiful Butterfly,
65. Monarch Butterfly Solarized 014, 66. Monarch Butterfly On Purple Coneflower 048, 67. Explore Page 7 March 2007, 68. Two Grace Godetias, 69. Deep Red Hollyhocks And Sky, 70. Rose, Therese Bugnet, Up Real Close, 71. Two Honeybees On Medium Pink Cosmos 002, 72. Sunset After The Storm 002
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Taal Lake and Volcano
A recursive natural beauty
Lake inside a Island then island inside a Lake then lake inside a island and then a small island in this lake :) !!!
A photo of a woman looking at a photo of people looking at paintings. Taken at the Tate Modern using the Vignette app on my mobile phone.
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
Generative masterplanning: some test frames.
Differentiation develops from site fitness, toward a primary use-type, with adjacency effects from neighboring parcels and clustering logics over larger assemblages of cells.
Compared to previous studies, the process here is more emergent, with a more responsive engagement and iterated over a much larger number of frames, allowing the designer the ability to intervene during the process.
The logic resembles that of cellular automata with the additional benefits of 1) being based on real, spatial geometry rather than a grid or regular matrix; 2) utilizing initial conditions that are based on actual site conditions and environmental properties; 3) propagating a more diverse set of influences and reactions; 4) progressing across multiple levels of effects (both scalar and temporal) that allow these effects to be staged in a manner less abstracted and closer to actual design concerns.
The final product is a gift/portal you can step through that will take you through the door right to the event. I have mine here in the skybox you see featured in a lot of my shots. Three prims, and well worth it, I think.
Host: Latex Web Inc. and Clan of the Latex Web
Title or Name of Event: Fetish Arts 2011 Version 1.3
Date: 8 October 2011 through 14 November 2011
SLURL: slurl.com/secondlife/darkadia/147/135/33
Description: We wanted to give everybody a heads up that our next Fetish Art Show will be opening on October 8 here in Darkadia. This will be a wonderful follow up to our last show and will be our third in the last 12 months with many wonderful artists from across Second Life participating in the exhibition. The artists will include both old and new faces including, but not limited to: DeNovo Broome, Ainsworth Gastel, Sacha Audeburgh, Catinka Anatine, Kim Dench, Mariko Demonia, Missy, Noir Maelstrom, Toughlove Sabra and Windrunner Constantine.
We look forward to showcasing their work and to seeing you all there. Look for more news on events associated with the Fetish Art Show in the coming weeks with dances and galas to celebrate the opening during the first week!
yours in kink,
Mandy Nijan-Tolsen (aka Mandy Galileo)
Darkadian Art Director
Structure Synth / POV-Ray
1280 x 960 Render Time: 34 hours 26 minutes
I wanted to try a few things in POV-Ray that I couldn't accomplish in Sunflow, namely smoke! I also turned on focal blur, but I'm a little disappointed with the result. I've heard it's a square aperture? It just doesn't quite look right to me.
It's been a while since I uploaded any of my mosaic portraits, or blended portraits, so I thought I'd give a little peek of what I've been working on. One very good friend from long ago, a dear friend and current roommate, and of course, my indefatigable nieces.
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The Equator runs right through the middle of Ecuador and there is a monument on it just a few miles outside of Quito, where I was staying. They call it "Mitad del Mundo" ("Middle of the World") since the Spanish word for equator is "Ecuador" and calling it that would be confusing and potentially lead to some sort of recursive infinite loop that would doom us all. Dangerous stuff, recursion.
Anyway, there is an interactive museum there where you can do bogus goofy "science" experiments that supposedly demonstrate things like how your balance is worse if you stand on the line than if you stand 6 feet to the side, how you can balance an egg on a nail (which a fellow tourist is trying above) on the equator, how water flows straight down a drain on the line, but circles counter-clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere (as represented by moving a basin six feet to the north/south of the line).
The last one actually has some truth to it -- the Coriolis Effect -- but it is really only noticable on a large scale, like hurricanes and ocean currents, not by moving six feet off the equator line. It is about as scientific as your average palm reading, but they make a nice show of it. They fill a basin with water, then pull the plug and drop some shredded leaves into it to illustrate the flow of water down the drain. And sure enough, it obligingly circles the pan counter-clockwise 6 feet to the North of the Equator and clockwise 6 feet to the south. The trick is probably done either by adding some spin when you fill the basin, or by rotating the table after filling (under the pretense of getting everyone a better view), or both. There is a good discussion of a similar trick in Kenya here.
The girl in the photo eventually did get her egg to balance, winning a certificate in the process. You know it is real science if you get a certificate -- they can't fake that.
The model village in Godshill is a model of Godshill village itself, and is complete to the extent that the model of the old vicarage has a model village in its garden, and in that model village there is another model village.
You have to resist the temptation to look up just in case you don't happen to be at the top level yourself...
#Trump as #Selfie
Art Series by @oligoldsmith
I am sharing this body of work under creative commons - feel free to use as is or to further remix etc. with attribution as dofollow hyperlink to to my website (oligoldsmith.com)
November 2016
Experiments with depictions of 2016 American political leaders - Donald Trump primarily and Hillary Clinton by Artist Oli Goldsmith (oligoldsmith.com/). Most resulting images surround depicting Trump, via digital processing methods similar to 'PhotoMosaic' techniques - as groups of imagery scraped from the web relating to the #Selfie genre of self-portrait snapshot popularized on social media and Instagram.
Other images play with #Trump as #Clinton as #Trump - involving recursive levels of initially producing a selection of images of Clinton made of Trump images, then used as foundation to build new Trump representation.
I will for now at least leave any interpretation of imagery as far as implied meanings etc. to viewer.
I typically lean away from overtly political, heavy-handed 'i mean this you must know and should think so too if possible' messaging in my work. While some of the pieces in this body of experimental digital artworks tend toward a fairly simple reading (yes I am suggesting there may be very little actual difference in meaningful outcomes between candidates in #trump as #clinton as #trump recursive mashups!) hopefully the oddness of the imagery itself and range of #SELFIE related and actual selfie images blend in these pictures in unexpected, possibly awkward ideally non-boring ways!
My work tends towards ambiguous and surrealistic compositions that consciously invite viewers to collaborate in exploring my pictures.
check out my online portfolio site:
you can get in touch via my primary site:
my facebook page:
www.facebook.com/oligoldsmitharts/
and art shop - check out the collectible limited edition kits!
thanks for checking out my work! Oli
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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.
Sharp Aquos TV, TV.
movie: Bruno.
recursive.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
November 8, 2009.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
While watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they showed a shot of the guy watching TV. 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 couple steps further, and now have a picture of our TV within our TV within our TV within our TV.....
You can barely see Kristen Bell anymore...
Sharp Aquos TV, TV, microscope, skull.
movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
recursive.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
November 8, 2009.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Folded from an octagon of kraft paper.
A refold with an extra level than the previous one.
Diagrams in Origami Deutschland 2019 and in Origami Record 2019-3.
Recursive Digital Reflections
My camera has a "live view" function, such that the scene being exposed to the camera sensor can be viewed on the small screen on the back of the camera body. This "live view" may also be viewed on a larger screen. For example, via HDMI cable out of the camera body into a nearby computer.
But what if the computer screen itself….
…is also the subject being imaged by the ever so slightly rotated camera, which is displaying it's sensor's image data on…
…the computer screen, which is also the subject being imaged by the ever so slightly rotated camera, which is displaying it's sensor's image data on….
…the computer screen, which is also the subject being imaged by the ever so slightly rotated camera, which is displaying it's sensor's image data on….
…the computer screen, which is also the subject...
Arcilla polimérica. Aún por terminar. Hacía mucho que no disfrutaba tanto en un curso y me ha encantado el resultado, lo aprendido y todo.
Polymer clay. Not finished yet. It was a great workshop, I just enjoyed every moment of it.
#Trump as #Selfie
Art Series by @oligoldsmith
I am sharing this body of work under creative commons - feel free to use as is or to further remix etc. with attribution as dofollow hyperlink to to my website (oligoldsmith.com)
November 2016
Experiments with depictions of 2016 American political leaders - Donald Trump primarily and Hillary Clinton by Artist Oli Goldsmith (oligoldsmith.com/). Most resulting images surround depicting Trump, via digital processing methods similar to 'PhotoMosaic' techniques - as groups of imagery scraped from the web relating to the #Selfie genre of self-portrait snapshot popularized on social media and Instagram.
Other images play with #Trump as #Clinton as #Trump - involving recursive levels of initially producing a selection of images of Clinton made of Trump images, then used as foundation to build new Trump representation.
I will for now at least leave any interpretation of imagery as far as implied meanings etc. to viewer.
I typically lean away from overtly political, heavy-handed 'i mean this you must know and should think so too if possible' messaging in my work. While some of the pieces in this body of experimental digital artworks tend toward a fairly simple reading (yes I am suggesting there may be very little actual difference in meaningful outcomes between candidates in #trump as #clinton as #trump recursive mashups!) hopefully the oddness of the imagery itself and range of #SELFIE related and actual selfie images blend in these pictures in unexpected, possibly awkward ideally non-boring ways!
My work tends towards ambiguous and surrealistic compositions that consciously invite viewers to collaborate in exploring my pictures.
check out my online portfolio site:
you can get in touch via my primary site:
my facebook page:
www.facebook.com/oligoldsmitharts/
and art shop - check out the collectible limited edition kits!
thanks for checking out my work! Oli