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Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission. Says artist, designer and architect, Dr. Koichi Kawana, “Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.” When you examine your visuals,…
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timothyrosenberg: Tristan Perich “Breathing Portraits” – “Chris and Tom” (by Tristan Perich) Gallery Four, High Zero festival exhibition, 2010 www.tristanperich.com/Breathing_Portraits The Breathing Portraits capture the movement of their subjects’ breathing patterns during sleep and render it in the motion of raw speaker cones.
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corymetcalf: This is Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor in Chicago’s Millenium Park. It is one of the most successfully engaging public art projects I have ever seen. Not only are hundreds of people interacting with it, but it reflects the entire Chicago skyline, celebrating the people and the city simultaneously. WOW!
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After discovering that he held the LRRK2 mutation on his twelfth chromosome (indicating that his lifetime risk of developing Parkinson’s disease is 30-75% rather than the typical 1%), Google co-founder Sergey Brin became one of the first philanthropists to fund research into a disease based on the results of a genetic test. In Thomas Goetz’s…