Articles Tagged with art

The narrative imperative

Telling the story

We notice that novel-writing and movie-making are different from Physics and History.

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Unfamiliar territory

Out of one’s field

Our photographer looks at some paintings.

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Cutting it short

How is a poster like a sonnet?

Our astronomer struggles to fit into a limited space.

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Looking at and looking through

Ways of seeing

What you see depends on how you look.

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The importance of being there

Imagination becoming reality

Comparing images from space with paintings of space.

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Local color

An exercise with the company title

We present some results from our investigation into color photography.

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The photographer, the painter and the scientist

Realism and creativity

Art and science are tied to reality in different ways, as are artists and scientists.

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Tools shape the artist

A choice of camera is unexpectedly important

Our photographic consultant finds that the camera he uses can have an unsubtle effect on the pictures he takes.

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When predictions are wrong

The role of science fiction

Today’s world doesn’t look like most science fiction stories pictured it.  But accurate prediction isn’t the main point of the genre.

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Somone else’s poetry

Why read something you don’t care for?

A minor matter of a subscription raises a point of vital importance.

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