A Love for Art

Sunday, November 13, 2005

the other option?

behold the terror that is knackerplisck

a blast from the past, and a preview of what we can expect the offspring of knackerplishk to look like.

yeesh... this kid better be one great painter.

Breakfast @ Mel's

Seven Seas Jim

PICT0063_3, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

if only every day were like this...

...visiting friends in distant cities, nothing better to do than hang out and take pictures of each other striking various all-canadian poses.

you tawkin' ta me???

reedah gets mean, wearing the "art matters" pin. this is on moanez' back porch, overlooking a lovely backyard full of trees, squirrels of divination, etc.

t-dot art fair #1-b

here's the article that ran in the FP today about the art fair. better images below.

T-dot art fair part 2

a full view of the Micah Lexier work-- for those who haven't been Peg-side in a while, these, in life-sized form, were in bus shelters all over the city this summer. pics by blizzo.

Toronto art fair

sorry about the vickar ad, etc, but here's the pic of paul butler.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Goldstar's Helmet (the screen)

PICT0074_2, originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Nothing is as it seems. I continue to study the universe.

Captain Goldstar is trying to break down the mysteries of the universe with a concept called the holographic principle. He stumbled on the idea while studying black holes. It is a concept, which ultimately questions whether the third dimension exists.

"There's a real conflict between the way that we're thinking about the world right now, which is a very local way where everything happens independently in different regions of space and the way that we're going to have to think about it," said Goldstar

The holographic principle uses the optical concept of holograms to try to visually explain the complex idea. Holograms are images that look three dimensional, but they exist on a two dimensional surface.

"You have to keep in mind that we're just using that name as a sort of metaphor for something that we're specifying quite precisely," he said.

The recognition is a step of progress, but Captain Goldstar doesn't know where it will ultimately lead.

"It may be a major step, it may just be one piece in a very big puzzle, but I think it's definitely progress towards that goal," he said.

Although there is practical way to use these principles right now, Goldstar said he and fellow super heroes are driven to understand nature at the most fundamental level.

Albert Einstein didn't have any practical applications for his theory of relativity when he first discovered it, but now the concept is woven into today's technology with things like global positioning systems, he said.

"It happens to be true that sooner or later these types of progress have not just had practical applications, but they really underlie almost everything that we can do technologically today," Goldstar said.

Ultimately, Captain Goldstar wants to find the origins and the implications of the holographic principle.

He said the principle has given insight into physics concepts that scientists have understood for years.

"It gives us a preview of some of the unifications and the explanatory power that the quantum gravity we're seeking is going to have,"