Tag Archives: The Golden Ratio

doctor i’d like a divine proportion

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

McBeauty. Is happiness an inside job? If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Hardly.No black swans. Cosmetic surgery, a procrastination of the genetic code is situated at the charged sweet spot between emotion and capitalism. A heady mix. Part of … Continue reading →

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When I’m Sixty-Four

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dave

Playing chess and negotiating a safe passage out of Libya or arranging a visit to an alien spaceship? Its a mystery, but who knows? There are 64 squares on the chess board and 64 DNA codons. Chess appeared somewhat mysteriously … Continue reading →

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connectivity through form

Posted on June 11, 2011 by tai

Guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception Tai Carmen: “There is a special ratio that can be used to describe the proportions of everything from nature’s smallest building blocks, such as atoms, to the … Continue reading →

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bliss is golden: balancing act of invisible glory

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dave

A is to B as B is to C. See? But, seeing is not always believing.How does one mediate opposites which appear contradictory and hostile to one another? Jung suggested a transcendent function which is a combination of conscious and … Continue reading →

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eureka moments: 3+3=5

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dave

In the grand scheme of things nature is much bigger in comparison to the individual. Nonetheless, man has found it irresistible to try to prove his superiority. A lost cause. Our ego is always searching for divine patterns; from the … Continue reading →

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mona lisa: still crazy for the old flame

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

Its persistence to in capturing the public’s imagination is in itself one of the painting’s imagined mysteries. Perhaps mysteries that have been more created and fermented by the legions of art critics and scholars than was actually imagined and figured … Continue reading →