Happy Ada Lovelace Day! (Late)

Oh, I did not forget! I was well aware that yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day. However, I had more pressing things going on and was unable to be on the computer scarfing up all the info I could about my dearest friend who lives in the past. She may not know we are close friends, but that is ok.

I think I may have shared some of these before, but as far as I am concerned you can never get enough of Ada!

I am so excited for this to come out Wollstonecraft. I did support his kickstarter and am anxiously awaiting the digital version to come. Here is the authors fb page Jordan Stratford  so you can go check it out if you would like. I think it is such a wonderful idea to try to motivate any girls to become as pro-tech, pro-science, pro-anything that has been predominantly male engulfed type of subject, occupation, etc… I understand that some girls may have no interest in it, but I wonder how much of that is influenced by the prominent gender roles that have been placed on us.

I believe the same applies for everyone – I feel that it is important to let people cultivate their interests and their gifting no matter what society may think. Tear down gender roles and let people be people. Allow them to succeed it has nothing to do with their sexuality, though that may not fit the “societal norm,” the main thing is that people are allowed to succeed in life in what comes naturally to them. We all have talents and giftings that could impact our world no matter how great or small our contribution – if we are allowed to learn how to build into them and are able to share without judgment. I do not know if I made any sense there I went on a rambling adventure!

Celebrating Women in Technology for Ada Lovelace Day 2012

Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women in Science

Tech Weekly podcast: Where are the women in tech?

Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace 

Hey, while I am at it, here are some other things I have been wandering around lately.

adafruit.com

The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok) (short video)

Why Are Things Cute? (another short video)

For Your Friday Political Discussion Consideration (Just an interesting read.)

Willard Wigan (amazing artist!)

Mishmosh Sciency Posh

Yowza! Sometimes songs just say the darnedest things. I listened to this song a hundred times while in the store earlier this evening. Why do people look at you as if you are doing something wrong if you are wearing headphones and iPod shuffle clamped to your shirt, but they do not seem to care if someone is on the phone or texting? Possibly it is what I do while I am listening to my music… maybe I am dancing all over the aisles and do not even know it because secretly I am a C.I.A. sleeper agent masking around as a Looney tune. It is quite possible that I am a cartoon character and did not know it also! Egad! What am I?

Pay no mind to me, I was sucked into an episode of Dark Matters earlier and it made my imaginations run wild. There are some days I should not go onto the Science Channel. I am contemplating on whether I should stick with watching the Olympics. It is currently on in the background. However, I am feeling very much drawn to TED. I have planned on watching Transcendent Man a documentary about Ray Kruzweil for a few days now. Have yet to do it. So many things to watch so little time, unless we actually do live for eternity – if that is the case I will need to run along and get some supplements and change my entire diet to prepare for nanobots to come into my blood stream and fight any disease that may evolve in my system for the next, I don’t know billion eternity years.

Off to TED and TEDx researching mindfulness… for the moment.

TEDxBoulder – Greg Burdulis – Migration of Mindfulness – Cave to Corporate America

Allan Jones: A map of the brain

Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology

I will be having positive dreams this evening – if I sleep that is!

Good night! (or Good day! Whichever, I wish you good.)

Stumbled Into Violin Happiness

Woot! Love the violin! I watched David Garrett for the first time on PBS the other night. It was magical to see him become one with his violin. They panned over some of the audience members and I enjoyed very much watching their expressions as they soaked in his music live. I burst with joy when I saw some of them unable to contain themselves and move to the music while others sat still. Everyone enjoys music differently. Even I, at times, prefer to sit still in complete awe of the experience consuming me with instrument and melody.

After my initial excitement, I closed my eyes and took in the concert. However, only seconds later I was grabbing the iPad to look this fellow up – of course! “David Garrett (born as David Bongartz on 4 September 1980) is a record-breaking German-American classical violinist and recording artist.”

Pure awesomeness! Shortly after a few songs, he played November Rain. It was grandiosenessly lovely. Here are some freebies David Garrett. Feeling fluffy floaty at the moment. While listening to David Garrett – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) this came out:

Feels good ting, ting, ting flashes of silver liquid piercing the sky splattering, jagged forces attack, clawing at the heart, passion dwells longingly to come out, fragments shatter, pieces of metallic shine, weaving through thoughts, casting molds, melting nectar to the soul, strings rip and rail, cling zig zags into eyes, bewildered world, fantasy of pleasure, escape onto the waters, the strings strum the violin hidden, pathways of a thumping heart pounding, in molten songs, merging instrument and soul are one, pouring mercury bubbles plinking down a glowing vessel, drip drop, drip drop, puddle wafting into ethereal sounds.

I think I will turn it into a poem. I confess I cannot stop listening to it. It has sucked me into a fantastic world, and is making feel happy. Although, I am taking breaks and listening to other songs as well such as this beauty…

I cannot get off of TED, in between my music listening. I am completely addicted at the moment. It helps my mind ponder on productive positive things.

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity

Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)

Paola Antonelli: Design and the elastic mind

What data is being collected on you? Some shocking info

Old news:

Music Psychology: Heavy Metal Music

Heavy metal ‘a comfort for the bright child’

Intelligent and Gifted People Listen to Metal more?

 

New “Loop Action” Here We Go!

I will go into a mind dump here and see what happens…

Designing for the Future Book (Video of Craig Mod. Aaaaa! Awesome!! Just found him today.)

Why There Are 24 Hours in a Day

Why the Knotted Language of DNA Sounds Like Music

Alaska northern lights sequence

Into the wild: cultivating the next generation of American scientists with Project Aether

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg Uses DNA Surveillance To Swipe Your Genetic Identity for Art

Missed these. Say Happy Birthday to Antoni Gaudí With These Eye-Twisting Designs (Lovely)

Marrying Tech and Art

Went to these too.

Seven Things Extroverts Should Know About Introverts (and Vice Versa)

SWARM 

Scott Sona Snibbe (Interactive art)

Visual Complexity 

I had to stop myself from getting obsessive about some of the Tech art sites. (I only shared a few.) It makes me scream giggles and clap with excitement. So freaking cool!!! I know, I know I can be a nerd. SO!

Come with me, come with me, my sweet lovely, on a trail of make-believe and reality. We will spring into a fancy new dimension, that used to be all fantasy of optical illusions. Here we trip into the past pulling it into the future. Ideas, dreams, visions of grandeur morphing a new existence! Oh, I love the future and past, embracing full present tense walking on the clouds of space waiting on happenstance. Giggle That was fun.

Speaking of happenstance…

I am stuck on French things currently, not sure why, maybe it’s me enjoying my name Angélique supposedly meaning “Messenger of God.” I just like saying it repeatly sometimes to remind myself of what my name is. I forget my name sometimes. Hee hee  It is quite easy to fall into Angel and think nothing more, but I do have four additional letters to my name. I like to say “ique” repeatedly as well. Somewhere in the middle is the le point du jour. (leuh pwahn doo joor) I found it much more fun to say than aurore, they are both fun to say.

Love, love, love, hum-hum-hum don’t know what she is singing and I do not care…la la la

Lost In A Writing Mind

I have taken a slight break from my other information consumption’s. I have not eliminated them completely, but I have not been staying with my brainy, techy, mathy, sciency type of loves lately. I do hope they forgive me. As soon as my life gets settled I will be running full force into their arms and letting all of their genius manipulate my brain into accepting the wonders and bewilderment of things I long to understand and enjoy.

Ok, ok I will share a few (only a few) with your complete insistence, of course. TED Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time. TED Ed How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date) because it is important to know how to get a date using chemical reactions.  The Wacky History of Cell Theory Alright, I admit I really like watching animated educated videos. Don’t judge – I consume all types of coolness. We can learn from anything! Wired Science, I miss you Have Your Genome Made Into a Piece of Art.

Marilyn Monroe and Aspergers Syndrome?

I do not know if Marilyn was on the autism spectrum, but I do know that I connected to her for several years. I read everything I could about her, I had posters, life-size cut-outs of her, calenders, pictures, stamps, picture books, that is all I can recall now. I wrote a poem for her, but have no idea what I did with it. I felt for her, and her life. My heart hurt for her and in a way she and I were friends, during a very lonely time in my life. Looking back though, remembering all that I read about her, it would seem the chances were high that she was an Aspie girl.

Why we fool ourselves into optimism

Tali Sharot: Cognitive neuroscientist

Her TED talk is in the CNN article so I did not link to it.

Psychology Today stuff I read this morning. (Been up for a while all is quiet, and insomnia can be your friend. )

Inner Marriage

How to Break the Cycle of Poor Choices and Feeling Bad

20 Uses for Self-Compassion

How Science Writing Can Save Lives

Octet

You don’t love me at all? O God. O Shit.
You still ‘respect me.’ Thanks. I value it
About as much as one who’s asked to use
A second hat when he’s in need of shoes.
Since, I discover, my own self-respect
Is quite enough to keep my spine erect
Why is it true my ample self-affection
Will not suffice to buoy me in rejection?

Vikram Seth

Started reading his poetry this morning because of this quote below.

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?” 
― Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

I fell in LOVE with this next quote this morning. I have not read anything from Jhumpa Lahiri, but I will be doing so in the near future.

Vintage Books & Anchor Books (Awesome page! I share their stuff all the time.)

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willingfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, ‘Listen to me’.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

Science creating art 3D style…

I have now added Neri Oxman to my list of female hero’s. She is ranging right up there with Ada Lovelace and that says a lot for me. I watched this video Revolution in Art & Design using 3D Printing | Objet for Neri Oxman last night, and it made my soul quake with joy. I am not joking I was struck with tears of elation and excitement. My head spun her words into grand images, and colors. I suggest watching this video first Neri Oxman: On Desiging Form.

I was so overwhelmed by the beauty of these artful creations, and the technology they are using to do it. As she was describing everything I saw multiple components coming together forming perfect unity and harmony – it is the manifestation of poetry from words into physical elements. Those are the best words I can use to try to articulate what I see and feel with all that she is doing.

A while later, I also felt covered in sadness – only a little bit because these types of things are what flow through my head and I am incapable of creating them. I try very hard to describe what is going on in my head through words, but at times it feels lacking. Motivation to try to get better!

Of course, I have not come up with these exact things, but in my head flows such imaginations that I do not have the abilities to get out. To see or hear something even a tiny bit similar to the thoughts inside my head come alive, gets me jumping with enthusiasm. She is also enticing to watch and listen to… I was truly captivated when she said, “Computational Form Finding.” Aaaaaa!! How exciting! I love this stuff! If you click on her name above you can see the images of what she has created. (I want to go to MIT!)

I was amazed and intrigued, the colors, textures, and designs I felt like they were breathing through me. I am not sure why I connected to them so much however, I had the same feel and emotional reaction when I heard Regina Spektor and watched her videos for the first time. I felt connected to something bigger – I have no other way to explain it. It is ironic that I was listening to Regina yesterday and then, later discovered Neri – an interesting tidbit.

“Nature authors not forms but processes… recipes that mix material and environment together, and from these mixtures form emerge.” ~ Neri Oxman

Multidimensional Creativity

I love multidimensional creativity. It works well for me because I see everything as a giant canvas, filled with music, ideas, poems, stories, inundated with dances sculpting through nature, carved into the heavenlies, dripping ink down through our hearts painting into our DNA exploding through as many creative outlets as we can think of. It includes the art of computer programming, graphic design, and magical apps that flow through our sensory circuits and all consuming scientific wonderments and mathematical artistry.

Nothing is left out.

I get extremely excited when I see technology transforming the ideas of what is thought of as traditional art forms. While I appreciate the wonders and grandness of traditional art forms, I am drawn to pushing them to new heights and exploring what humankind can create with their imaginations!

I wish I could create the vision I have for a book to be completely interactive, from hardcover to reaching into apps, video art, being able to create the music that is playing in my head while writing words and allowing the reader to change and feel emotions into their own music reading the words… more like feeling, seeing, glowing the words into something. What, I do not know. Yes, there is math concepts involved. That would be so awesome!

I would love a book to be created that is hooked up to a community of fans who morph their ideas and visions into a living breathing work of art. It could be through a website or app on an iPad, (I do not mean to exclude other techy devices that one could create apps for, I just like seeing the word iPad by itself.) I don’t know I am trying to describe what is in my head and it is kind of hard to do. It is also frustrating because even if I could get my vision down I do not have the knowledge to do it on my own or the resources. (Um, like an iMac or Mac Pro! I would be happy with a MacBook Pro I am not picky. Ha ha ha )

I will stop my imaginations before I get too wild.  If only I were a computer-techy-graphic art-mathematical-musical-illustrating-writing-poetic-completely loaded with funds and time-genius. Sigh…I am not and I will have to leave my imaginations to limited websites. Oh, I forgot philosophical-spiritual guru-neuroscientific mastermind-able to connect all sensory pleasures into the hearts of all – completely linking them to my BOOK! I am planning on taking over the world! Alright, I am kidding. It is fun to imagine.

Seriously, I have been thinking about this a lot lately and have read some interesting things. I get so excited thinking about the future – I can’t help myself. I read several things the other day, but got sidetracked and can’t locate them. I will share what I remember and what I already had stored in my drafts. I also have another collection of links about Divergent Thinking, I will probably share tomorrow. Still pondering-connecting-purging-morphing-singing…I heard this song The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin today and I have to say I do not get tired of it.

How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies

Teens Getting Creative With Web 2.0 Tools: Multi-Dimensional Way of Communicating Is Evolving (I wish we could gear our culture into doing a better job at helping teens be innovative in areas of creativity, and environment issues.)

Life as a Multidimensional Creative Being

Sigur Rós: Ekki múkk (moving art)

Media Arts Education

Technology in the Arts

SEEDMAGAZINE.COM (creativity section)

Science Art & Technology 

The Future of Science…Is Art?

Connecting Science and Art

My New App Whoop! Whoop!

I cannot stay quiet anymore I got the Minds of Modern Mathematics iPad app recently and it is AWESOME! I am talking “Pure Awesomeness!” (Even if you are not into all that, it still rocks, just sayin’.) Alright, alright I cannot keep some of the other things I have lurking a secret either. The Breathtaking Watches of Baselworld Watches! Since I do not have the funds to buy them I do what I do with clocks, and look at images of them. My eye candy.

I have been admiring some vintage Swatch Watches too because I loved them so, but never had one. During a short-lived stint, I had a group of girlfriends who had tons of Swatch Watches and didn’t care a thing about them — they let me wear them all the time. I always, at the very least wore two watches on my wrist at a time. Most of the time I had two on each wrist. Silly me. I have no idea why I am thinking of these watches. (Insert eye-roll here) Possibly, because they made me happy, the watches not the friends. Oops!

Oh, oh look at this Barrel Organ Made of 20,000 Lego Bricks Plays Star Wars Theme. I am really beginning to think that Google is trying to take over the world… Can You Copyright a Computer Language? Google and Oracle Set to Find Out. OR Oracle, who knows who is trying to take over the world anymore. (Monsanto much? I’m kidding back off Monsanto!) It takes too much brainpower to try to guess.

Enough of my goofiness. I was spurting out the last bit of stuff lingering in my mind so I can focus on another post. April 15, 2012 (4+1+5+2+1+2 = 15 — 1+5 = 6) There it all evens out. (giggle, giggle) Code 46 Haven’t seen the movie (yet, will do just because), but it looks very interesting. (4+6 = 10) See what happens when I start reading about mathematicians and stuff? I want to add everything, why do I only want to add?? So far, I am really enjoying the soundtrack to the flick.

Suppose

I am captured,
eternity,
I suppose.