Archive for sculpture
Ada L. at the ATI [6 October 2022]
Posted in Statistics with tags Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing Institute, artificial intelligence, ATI, Britain, City of Westminster, data science, London, sculpture, STEM, University of Warwick on September 29, 2022 by xi'an
Atoms [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags 1958 Brussels World's Fair, Atomium, Belgium, Brussels, Bruxelles, Exposition Universelle, hijacking, jatp, morning run, nuclear power plant, Russian invasion, sculpture, Sunday morning, Zaporizhzhia on September 10, 2022 by xi'an
ring of fire [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags biking, Institut de Physique du Globe, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Jussieu, neon, Pacific Rim, Paris, Ring of Fire, sculpture, Université de Paris, volcanoes on September 4, 2021 by xi'anWhile leisurely biking in Paris the previous (grey) weekend, my wife and I stopped by the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes, in front of a (grey) renovated building of l’Institut de physique du globe, where we both attended (maths) lectures in the 1980’s. I had noticed the renovation years ago and in particular the red neon fractured line going over the faces of the building, but never considered it had a specific meaning.
In fact, the apparent random walk has nothing random as it reproduces the Ring of Fire, a Fuller projection of the continuum of volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean. (This sculpture was created by Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain.)
the pillar of shame [04 June 1989]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags 04 June 1989, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Jens Galschiot, Pillar of Shame, sculpture, Tiananmen Square Massacre, University of Hong Kong, 國殤之柱 on June 4, 2021 by xi'an
Seventeen Seconds [40 years ago]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags A Forest, J.R. Tolkien, New Wave, Paris, Peter Jackson, Robert Smith, sculpture, The Cure, The Lord of the Rings on April 22, 2020 by xi'an
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