Science and art: two long-lost lovers?

[Tin Can]

Heck, from what I have seen of Norwegian jails, I may have to commit some grand crime, to up my lifestyle.

Not kidding

[Struan Gray]

Paul, that documentary is hideously true (and full of in-jokes).

Sweden's not utopia. But it pushes a lot of the right buttons for me. I just wish there were a few mountains round my part of it. Or just one.

[Mike Anderson]

All I know of Sweden I learned from Stieg Larsson. So it sounds pretty cool except for the little islands of sociopathic rich people.

[Mike Anderson]

Might as well keep this thread going. Scientist's blackboards captured with LF photography:

http://www.alejandroguijarro.com/ongoing/blackboards/

[Bill Burk]

Mike Anderson,

That is an amazingly on-topic post!

[Jac@stafford.net]

What we call science or technology, indeed Art today was sublime craftsmanship in ancient times.

The concept of an Artist is a recent invention, possibly since Dada.

How we might contrast LF photography to contemporary tiny CRT images is pivotal. Imagine a future where screen imaging is considered primitive, and there you are with your 'obsolete' super high fidelity large format film images and be happy. You speak to the future today.

[Darin Boville]

And on and on it goes.

This from the Smithsonian Magazine web page:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...son-180950253/

"Though the film deals with some pretty hard science, it strives to depict a very human struggle for understanding. The same struggle is also reflected in the art world, according to director Mark Levinson—both science and art, he says, are human attempts to represent and reveal more about the world."

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But beyond highlighting analogies with art—which can be useful for explaining science—the film also shows that conducting physics research is in many ways an artistic process.

"We’re trying to figure out a deeper theory of nature and that process is really a lot of guess work," says Kaplan, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the movie's producer. "You take hints, you follow leads, but you’re also being very creative and trying to figure out what it could be, and try to imagine things that aren’t in the current theories but that could be. You have to have an incredibly open mind to push through that process, and so the process itself actually feels very artistic, at least in relation to what my artist friends talk about going through."

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There's a video at the link.

--Darin