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Futurist Gray Scott: We are Part of a Technological Cosmos

Johnny Boston — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:06:12 +0000

How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?

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Expansive New Geometric Drawings Trampled in Snow and Sand by Simon Beck — By Christopher Jobson | Colossal

Odette Bohr Dienel — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:18:51 +0000

“[A]rtist Simon Beck (previously) trudges across sand or through knee-high snow to create massive geometric drawings left behind in his footprints. From sandy expanses on the shore of New Zealand to frigid outlooks in the Swiss Alps, any pristine surface that stretches for hundreds of meters can work as a suitable canvas for Beck’s designs.”

Metamorphose: 1999 Documentary Reveals the Life & Work of Artist M.C. Escher | Open Culture

Odette Bohr Dienel — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:42:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCiqqszGT6Y

“Made in 1999 by Dutch director Jan Bosdriesz, the documentary Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898–1972 takes its title from one of Escher’s more well-known printsin which the word “metamorphose” transforms itself into patterns of abstract shapes and animals.”