Cone Monster
Joseph Carnevale snagged a few traffic cones and constructed this masterpiece which he then returned to the construction site. Unfortunately the police didn’t quite appreciate the work and arrested him.
A fascinating essay by Lera Boroditsky that explores how language shapes the way we think.
Mandarin speakers talk about time vertically more often than English speakers do, so do Mandarin speakers think about time vertically more often than English speakers do? Imagine this simple experiment. I stand next to you, point to a spot in space directly in front of you, and tell you, “This spot, here, is today. Where would you put yesterday? And where would you put tomorrow?” When English speakers are asked to do this, they nearly always point horizontally. But Mandarin speakers often point vertically, about seven or eight times more often than do English speakers.
Look at some famous examples of personification in art — the ways in which abstract entities such as death, sin, victory, or time are given human form. How does an artist decide whether death, say, or time should be painted as a man or a woman? It turns out that in 85 percent of such personifications, whether a male or female figure is chosen is predicted by the grammatical gender of the word in the artist’s native language.
Catching up on some of the baby pictures sent to me over the past few months.
Ethan at 2 Months
Ethan at 4 Months
Madelyn at 1 Month
Madelyn & My Mom
So I just found out my cousin Kayla won a trip to Africa in an essay contest. Huge congratulations to her!
“I never thought I’d be the winner,” Cothrun said. “I really just wanted to get an A on the paper.”
Congratulations to Sam and Christine on the birth of Madeline Alivia Cothrun.
Madelyn & Isabel
Madelyn
My face is twitching now in sympathy. From BoingBoing.
I just discovered this song, have it stuck in my head all weekend:
What Else Is There? from Röyksopp on Vimeo.
I suspect that “flashlights and explosions” maybe should have been “lightning and thunder” but its still a great song.
And yeah, years behind but hey what can I say?
Kutiman mixes up a selection of amateur performances, music lessons and simply miscellaneous bits of sound and music into a funk jam masterpiece called Thru You. More than a simple mashup, this has shades of DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin and other masters of sample manipulation. Check it out.
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