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Art, Talent, and the Tyranny of the Subjective

Art, Talent, and the Tyranny of the Subjective

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but who exactly is this mythical “they” entity anyway? Things like art and music – so easily perverted into the ethereal chaos of the subjective – can really cause engineers like me to seg fault (that’s basically a metaphorical parallel to an intellectual seizure). But [...]

Trip to New York City

Trip to New York City

So we spent the weekend in NYC and pretty much stuck to midtown and downtown Manhatten. Of course we hit some tourist-y attractions, like Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA – official site). The MoMA was featuring an exhibition called Pixar: 20 Years of Animation… it [...]