Category Archives: Art & Photos

Space Orchestra

By | July 13, 2012

Spacey fun at the symphony last night, with Legeti’s Atmosphères and Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, both used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Holst’s Planets. Atmospheres was subtle, relaxing, and almost entirely without melody – a piece for meditating to, if stark and slightly scary. I really needed that, as Thursday was just one of… Read More »

Art & Evolution; Dennis Dutton’s “The Art Instinct”

By | May 1, 2009

I recently listened to this interview with Denis Dutton on Bloggingheads.tv about his new book “The Art Instinct“. I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on it in detail, but I can definitely tell I want to read it. The basic premise is that the art can be explained in evolutionary terms as… Read More »

Spring photography

By | April 8, 2009

Over the last few years, I’ve become strongly affected by the seasons. I suspect it probably correlates with the time at which I started keeping a garden, something I’ve yet to start doing here in the US. Anyway, as winter’s slowly turned into spring, I’ve been taking quite a few photos. Here’s three sets of… Read More »