not a dancing bear

Leaping with fingers crossed in hopes for long range wi-fi in the void. emmy catedral notadancingbear.com

[shihlun]

Berenice Abbott, Transformation of Energy, 1958.

[27views]

“ Light through Prism ” (1958-61) by Berenice Abbott

[beingcompiled]

Berenice Abbott, Behavior of waves, ca. 1960

[nobrashfestivity]

Berenice Abbott, Interference of Waves

[eightiesart]

BARBARA KASTEN

[noiseman-blog]

Construct A + A by Barbara Kasten, 1984.

[notadancingbear]

Lewis Latimer #lewislatimer

[damiancmusic-blog]

“Robert Moog we salute you till the day the world goes blank”

[moma]

Described by the press as “alien” and like “a fox let loose in a chicken shack,” the sounds of the Moog synthesizer filled MoMA’s Sculpture Garden during the final event of the 1969 Jazz in the Garden concert series.  

[View of the concert performed by Robert Moog and the Moog Synthesizer, part of the Jazz in the Garden series, The Museum of Modern Art, August 28, 1969. Photographer: Peter Moore. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York]

[ruiraiox]

Clara Rock­more (March 9, 1911 – May 10, 1998) was a pio­neer in elec­tronic music. Her artistry and tech­nique on the theremin put her in the same league as some of the other leg­endary women instru­men­tal­ists of 20th cen­tury — musi­cians like pianist Dame Myra Hess, the great Pol­ish harp­si­chordist Wanda Landowska. From a very early age, Clara was an accom­plished young vio­lin­ist but as it turned out, she even­tu­ally had to aban­don the instru­ment because of chronic phys­i­cal dif­fi­cul­ties due to child­hood mal­nu­tri­tion and she took up the theremin. Later in her life she said that Leon Theremin saved her “musi­cal san­ity” by intro­duc­ing her to the theremin. She had extremely pre­cise, rapid con­trol of her move­ments, impor­tant in play­ing an instru­ment that depends on the performer’s motion and prox­im­ity rather than touch. She also had the advan­tage of work­ing directly with Léon Theremin from the early days of the instrument’s com­mer­cial devel­op­ment in the United States. It is easy to under­stand why Leon Theremin, the inven­tor of the instru­ment that bears his name, was deeply in love with Clara. Apart from being bril­liantly tal­ented as a musi­cian and therem­i­nist, she was strik­ingly beautiful. Clara Rock­more died in the spring of 1998 leav­ing a small but impor­tant legacy of her record­ings which include The Art of Theremin (pro­duced by Robert Moog in 1977) and a stun­ning, live, 1945 per­for­mance of the Con­certo for Theremin and Orches­tra by the Amer­i­can com­poser Anis Fulei­han (with the orches­tra under the direc­tion of the great Leopold Stokowski). Both these record­ings have been reis­sued on CD.

[gownroundup]

Switched On [Wendy Carlos, composer/electronic musician/tech. adviser to Robert Moog/wrote score for ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ 'The Shining,’ and 'Tron’]

[frugalred]

Tiffany / Favrile Love

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[ufansius]

Favrile glass and patinated bronze Moorish table lamp - Tiffany Studios, circa 1893.

[lifesabitchh]

Tiffany Glass Dome at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago

[invaderxan]

[noodles6312]

Doing a radio astronomy project for my senior year thesis thing. This is a map of some quasar that shows how the radio waves it’s emitting are polarized. The parameters are way out of whack but I thought it looked pretty kewl.

I call it “Serious Cosmic Event”.

Or maybe “Very Serious Cosmic Event: A Devastating One”.

Caption: A baby dinosaur being born at the same time as the big bang while performing a C-section on a baby shark.

[engineeringhistory]

Conical log-spiral antenna, designed by J.D. Dyson as feed element for the University of Illinois 400-foot radio telescope, 1957