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The art of origami or paper folding has received a
considerable amount of mathematical study. Fields of interest include a given paper
model's flat-foldability (whether the model can be flattened without damaging
it) and the use of paper folds to solve mathematical equations. In 1893, Indian civil servant T. Sundara
Row published Geometric Exercises
in Paper Folding which used
paper folding to demonstrate proofs of geometrical constructions. This work was inspired by the use of origami in
the kindergarten system. This book had an approximate trisection of angles and implied construction of a
cube root was impossible. In 1936 Margharita P. Beloch showed that use of the 'Beloch fold', later used in the
sixth of the Huzita–Hatori axioms, allowed the general cubic equation to be
solved using origami. In 1949, R C Yeates' book "Geometric
Methods" described three allowed constructions corresponding to the first,
second, and fifth of the Huzita–Hatori axioms. The axioms were discovered
by Jacques Justin in 1989, but were overlooked until the first six were rediscovered
by Humiaki Huzita in 1991. The first International Meeting of Origami
Science and Technology (now known as the International Conference on Origami in
Science, Math, and Education) was held in 1989 in Ferrara, Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_paper_folding
Wu Yi tea is a type of
oolong tea grown in the Wuyi mountain. The region is famous for the exceptional
oolong teas produced. The tea has a
highly individual flavor that is not reproduced anywhere else because of the
high mineral content of the soil. The
humid climate and the narrow valley enable the tea to grow without risk of
scorching or bitterness. The oolongs
from wuyishan are also often referred to as Wuyi rock tea (or in Chinese
'Yancha'). Da Hong Pao is the most
popular Wuyi source tea, right after Rou Gui, Shui Xian, and Tieluohan. There is a Chinese saying: 'every rock has tea, and without the rocks
there is no tea.' Read more and see
pictures at https://www.teasenz.com/chinese-tea/wu-yi-source-rock-tea.html
The
artist who created some of the most memorable images of the 20th century was
never fully embraced by the art world.
There is just one work by Maurits Cornelis Escher in all of Britain’s
galleries and museums, and it was not until his 70th birthday that the first
full retrospective exhibition took place in his native Netherlands. Escher was admired mainly by mathematicians
and scientists, and found global fame only when he came to be considered a
pioneer of psychedelic art by the hippy counterculture of the 1960s. His prints adorn albums by Mott the
Hoople and the Scaffold, and he was courted unsuccessfully by Mick
Jagger for an album cover and
by Stanley
Kubrick for help transforming
what became 2001: A Space Odyssey into a “fourth-dimensional
film”. In 1948, he made Drawing Hands, the image of two hands, each drawing
the other with a pencil. It is a neat
depiction of one of Escher’s enduring fascinations: the contrast between the
two-dimensional flatness of a sheet of paper and the illusion of
three-dimensional volume that can be created with certain marks. Most
dazzling, perhaps, is the celebrated Ascending
and Descending (1960), with its two ranks of human figures
trudging forever upwards and eternally downwards respectively on an
impossible four-sided eternal staircase.
It is the most recognisable of Escher’s “impossible objects” images,
which were inspired by the British mathematician Roger Penrose and his father,
the geneticist Lionel Penrose.
Fascinated by House of Stairs,
the Penroses published a paper in 1956 in the British Journal of
Psychology entitled “Impossible Objects:
A Special Type of Visual Illusion”.
Receiving an offprint a few years later, Escher wrote to Lionel
expressing his admiration for the “continuous flights of steps”
in the paper, and enclosing a print of Ascending
and Descending. (The paper
also included the “tri-bar” or Penrose triangle, which is constructed
impossibly from three 90-degree angles.
In 1961 Escher built his never-ending Waterfall using
three of them.) Steven Poole https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/20/the-impossible-world-of-mc-escher See also https://mcescher.com/about/biography/
and https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/mc-escher-life-and-work.html
Stuttgart City Library, situated
in a concrete cube in the heart of southern Germany, isn't
your average library. The main
attraction—a five-story reading room shaped like an upside-down pyramid—looks
more like an M.C. Escher drawing than a library, until you notice the hundreds
of thousands of neatly stacked books, that is. Cozy? Not
really. Beautiful? You bet.
Caitlin Morton See pictures and
descriptions of 22 beautiful libraries around the world at https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-09-02/10-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-libraries
Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September
5, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created the comic
strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing
the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a
mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt
groups." At the peak of the strip's
popularity in the mid-1990s, it appeared in almost 1,400 papers. However,
on August 11, 2010, Guisewite announced the strip's retirement after 34
years. Its run ended on October 3,
2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Guisewite
“Cathy” ran in newspapers 365 days a year from 1976 to
2010. It began as a way to cope with a
changing world. “I am woman.
Hear me snore.” For that quote,
see comic strip from the 1990s at
The ratification of the
United States Constitution by Rhode Island was the 1790 decision by
the State
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ("Rhode Island") to accede to the United States Constitution.
It was a controversial process which occurred only after the United
States threatened a trade embargo against Rhode Island for non-compliance. Rhode Island acquired a reputation for
opposing a closer union with the other former
British colonies that
had formed the United States of America. It vetoed an act of the Congress of the Confederation which earned it a number of deprecatory
nicknames, including "Rogue Island" and "the Perverse
Sister". Rhode Island took 101 years to call a vote on
ratification of the 17th amendment which
began the direct election of senators.
The measure came into force in 1913, but the Rhode Island General
Assembly did not take up debate on it until 2013, finally passing it the
following year. Rhode Island earlier
rejected the 16th amendment establishing
a federal income tax, which came into force in 1913 despite its
opposition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution_by_Rhode_Island
fifth wheel noun (chiefly U.S.) (road transport) A
type of trailer hitch, which consists of a horseshoe-shaped plate on a multidirectional pivot, with a locking pin to couple with the kingpin of a truck trailer. In full, fifth-wheel
trailer: a large caravan or travel trailer that is connected to a pickup truck for towing by a hitch similar to the one
described in sense 1 located in the center of the truck's bed.
(road transport, historical) A horizontal wheel or segment of a wheel above the front axle and
beneath the body of a carriage, forming an extended support to prevent it from overturning. (idiomatic, informal) Anything superfluous or unnecessary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fifth_wheel#English
Author Charles
Webb, whose first novel The
Graduate inspired the 1967 film, died June 16, 2020. The
Graduate was published in 1963, and was adapted into the Mike
Nichols film starring Dustin Hoffman just four years later. The book and the film follow Benjamin
Braddock, a young man who embarks on an affair with Mrs. Robinson (played by
Anne Bancroft), the wife of his father’s business partner. Webb claimed the story is based on his own
experiences growing up in Los Angeles after graduating from an East Coast
college. He said that the book is not
autobiographical. Bruce Haring
https://deadline.com/2020/06/charles-webb-author-the-graduate-obituary-was-81-1202971920/ In 2007, Webb published a sequel to
The Graduate, titled Home School.
Illustrator,
graphic designer, art director, visual philosopher and paterfamilias Milton Glaser died June 26, 2020, on his 91st
birthday. If Glaser had a breakout
moment, it was his poster of Bob
Dylan, from 1966. It was
commissioned by CBS Records, and a folded copy was slipped into the jacket of
every LP of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, from
which it was then removed and posted on seemingly every dorm-room wall in
America. It looked fresh and modern, but
it was also art-history-literate: Glaser
had borrowed the black silhouette profile from a portrait of Marcel Duchamp (a
lift that he readily admitted). Even the
typeface was his own, a font called Baby Teeth.
MoMA has a copy of the poster in its permanent collection—it makes
regular appearances in the design collection—and Glaser’s studio still sells
reprints of it. After the city’s fiscal
crisis of 1975, New York State was pushing tourism with a big ad buy and a new
jingle, and asked Glaser to propose a logo. The story goes that he came up with the
backseat of a yellow cab. Four
characters, scribbled in red crayon on a torn envelope: I ♥ N Y. A billion coffee mugs and T-shirts followed. Because it was designed for the city he loved
and a campaign that seemed temporary, Glaser did it pro bono, and he seems to
have enjoyed the endless number of permutations, parodies, and ripoffs it has
spawned. The torn envelope
from the taxi ride is also in the permanent collection of
MoMA. A sequel, designed
after the 9/11 attacks, became yet another icon. Christopher Bonanos https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/milton-glaser-new-york-and-iny-designer-dies-at-91.html
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