Deep-Ocean: Lights in the Abyss - BBC FOUR

[27:40] (Dr Bruce Robison)

“Living in this twilight zone depth range is very challenging for the animals that choose to live here, because there are no rocks or trees or holes in the ground where animals and hide. It’s a truly three-dimensional space, without boundaries or borders. Light is an extremely important way that the animals deal with the challenges of living here.”

Flights - Olga Tokarczuk

Page 183-184

SPEAK! SPEAK!

  Inside and out, to oneself and to others, narrating every situation, naming every state; search for words, try them on, that shoe that will magically transform Cinderella into a princess. Move words around like the chips you place on numbers in roulette. Perhaps this will be the time? Perhaps we’ll win this one?
  Speak, grab people’s sleeves, have them sit down across from us and listen. Then turn yourself into the listener for their ‘speak, speak’. Hasn’t it been said that I speak, therefore I am? One speaks, therefore one is?
  Use all possible means for this, metaphors, parables, wavers, unfinished sentences; don’t be put off by the sentence breaking off halfway through, as though past the verb there suddenly yawned an abyss.
  Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a curse, even the ones that lead to embarrassing and shameful hallways you would prefer to forget. Don’t be ashamed of any fall, of any sin. The narrated sin will be forgiven. The narrated life, saved. It is not this that Saints Sigismund, Charles and James have taught us? He who has not mastered the art of speaking shall remain forever caught in a trap.

The pleasure principle portrait of Edward James (1937) - René Magritte

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Page 123
“Meanwhile it was quickly getting dark. The streets contracted. Houses and fences huddled together in the evening darkness. From the depths of the courtyards, trees came up to the windows, to the light of the burning lamps. It was a hot sultry night. Every movement made one break into sweat. Strips of kerosene light, falling into the yard, ran down the tree trunks in streams of dirty perspiration.”

Page 128-129
“Stars and trees come together and converse, night flowers philosophise, and stone buildings hold meetings."

Dan Fox – Limbo

Chapter 24

“Grey water faded into pure, white, low cloud like the edge of a drawing in which the picture simply gives way to blank paper.”

Ocean Vertigo

“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man ... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination.” ― Rod Serling

Dan Fox – Limbo

Chapter 1 - [06:25]

“I thought of another untitled sculpture I’d seen by an artist who’s curious why images and objects lose our attention the longer we spend with them. In 2017 Simon Martin made a bronze figurine that he only considered activated if a fresh organic lemon was placed next to it. If there was no lemon or if the citrus had rotted, Martin ruled the artwork incomplete. The act of replacing the fruit every week or two was analogous to watering the plants, a reminder to not let the familiar turn invisible, neglected.”

Chapter 3 - [03:10]

"The disconsolate mind finds comfort in odd shaped corners."

Source:https://soundcloud.com/danfoxx/sets/dan-fox-limbo/p>

Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5755518

John Prine - Hello In there
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Page 6
“Yura thought he remembered the way, and each time the fields spread out wide, with woods embracing them in front and behind in a narrow border, it seemed to Yura that he recognised the place where the road should turn right, and at the turn there would appear and after a moment vanish the seven-mile panorama of Kologrivovo, with the river glistening in the distance and the railroad running beyond it. But he kept being mistaken. Fields were succeeded by fields. Again and again they were embraced by woods. The succession of these open spaces tuned you to a vast scale. You wanted to dream and think about the future.”

Rose Finn-Kelcey The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the felt position and the seen position [1975]

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finn-kelcey-the-restless-image-a-discrepancy-between-the-felt-position-and-the-seen-p78607

Carey Young Body Techniques (after Parallel Stress, Dennis Oppenheim,1970) [2007]

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/young-body-techniques-after-parallel-stress-dennis-oppenheim-1970-p79819

Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress [1970]

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/oppenheim-parallel-stress-t12403

I would pretend (metaphorically) to have seen nature and universe themselves not as a picture made or fastened on an immovable wall, but as a sort of painted canvas roof or curtain in the air, incessantly pulled and blown and flapped by a something of an immaterial unknown and unknowable wind.

- Boris Pasternak
Letter (in English) to Stephen Spender, 22 August 1959

Yellow is Forbidden

[00:33]
“Pass me your phone. Shine it on the skirt. Then let it gradually absorb more light. Light is its nutrient. More light. Turn off your cellphone light, darling. See how it glows? It’s beautiful, right?”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000h3dv/yellow-is-forbidden

Korakrit Arunanondchai with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4 (2017)

[03:37]

[19:32]

[19:41]

Source: http://www.carlosishikawa.com/

Secrets of the Super Elements

[04:07]
“Your average smartphone contains over half the elements on the planet. There’s lithium and cobalt in the battery, lanthanum and yttrium in the screen. Terbium and dysprosium make the microphone. There’s even arsenic in the silicon chip.”

[06:28]
“… we have a soft metal (indium) that can turn into a liquid that conducts electricity. Not bad. But it has one more astonishing property. The thing that makes it an absolutely vital part of every smartphone. Mix it with tin and oxygen, and you get indium tin oxide, a transparent electrical conductor. And that’s how you make the touch-screen.”

[49:52]
“… your phone knows which way up it is, doesn’t it? That seems really simple but actually, there’s a tiny machine inside the phone working that out. It’s called an accelerometer, and it’s got moving parts that are smaller than the hair of a flea. And it detects the force of gravity.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rv9r6

Wile E Coyote and Road Runner - Stop! Look! and Hasten! - [02:10;02:12]

Wile E Coyote and Road Runner - Zipping Along - [01:02]

Tom and Jerry - The Invisible Mous - [04:46;04:57;04:58]

Tom and Jerry - Hatch Up Your Troubles - [03:37]

Tom and Jerry - Flirty Bird - [02:44;02:45;02:46]

Glow in the dark eyes

Wile E Coyote and Road Runner - Beep,Beep - [04:15]

Tom and Jerry - Dr Jekyll and Mr Mouse - [01:51]

Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts

[65:34] (Alice Roberts)
“…by changing the design of our eyes, we could achieve this (seeing in low light levels) with visible light. It’s simple a matter of scale. As they evolve to live or hunt in semi-darkness, nocturnal animals often have noticeably larger eyes. Their enlarged pupils allow more light to hit the retina, increasing visual sensitivity.”
[66:05]
“I’ve been looking at eyes and I think our eyeballs could be better, so they could ^{let more light in} and we could ^{trap more light,} as well. And I think the eyeballs need to be about 20-25% larger than they are at the moment.”

[66:16] (Scott Eaton)
_{“You know, I think that’s just big enough that they will look really interesting. There’s no doubt about it.} You’re going to have big old cartoon eyes.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b6q3qy/can-science-make-me-perfect-with-alice-roberts

Revolutions: The Ideas that Changes the World series 1: 5. The Telescope

[05:24] (Dr Fabic Silva – Skyscape Archaeologist Bournemouth University) “In a perfectly dark night sky the human eye can see around 5,000 stars. To look beyond and see things that we wouldn’t normally see, we need the telescope. And I think that such technology was already present 6,000 years ago, 1,000 years before Stonehenge and about 1,500 years before the pyramids in Egypt. And we also find the remains of it here in Portugal, in the shape of these stone monuments, or dolmens. They only had stone tools, wooden tools and possibly bone tools and yet, somehow, they managed to carve these rocks out of the landscape, drag them a few miles and put them in place. This was clearly a project of huge significance for these communities. And they didn’t just do it once, there are between 15 and 20 monuments in this river valley alone with the same orientation towards the East. I think these rock chambers were used to accustom their eyes to the dark, allowing them to see fainter stars.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007tpj

Einstein’s Quantum Riddle

“Entanglement is this very powerful but strange connection that exists between pairs of particles.”

“The effect is almost magical. As if something here can mysteriously affect something there. Can particles be connected as if they’re joined together, even if they’re millions of miles apart?”

“Einstein rejected the idea, calling it “spooky action at a distance.””

“Today, cutting -edge labs around the world are racing to harness Anton’s [Zeilinger] multi-particle entanglement to create revolutionary new technologies. Like quantum computers.”

“In our everyday computers, the fundamental unit of computing is a bit, a binary digit, zero or one. And inside the computer, there’s all these transistors which are turning on and off currents. On is one, off is zero. And these combinations lead to universal computing. With a quantum computer, you start with the fundamental unit that’s not a bit, but a quantum bit, which is not really a zero or a one, but it can be fluid.” [40:51] “A quantum bit makes use of the fuzziness of the quantum world. A qubit, as it’s known, can be a zero or one, or a combination of both. A particle or tiny quantum system can be made into a qubit. And groups of qubits can be linked with entanglement to create a quantum computer. The more qubits the greater the processing power.”

“Accepting that entanglement is part of the natural world around us has profound implications. It means you must accept that an action in one place can have an instant effect anywhere in the universe, as if there’s no space between them. Or that particles only take on physical properties when we observe them. Or we must accept both.”

“We’re left with conclusions about the universe that make no sense whatsoever. Science is stepping outside of all of our boundaries of common sense, and yet finding ways to explain the universe.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000db95

Source: https://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_intro_show

Peter Rice: An Engineer Imagines (BBC)

The Full Moon Theatre – Humbert Camerlo and Peter Rice

[10:02] (Andy Sedgwick – Director Arup)
“Peter was keen to use some sort of      ^{structural shape}      to try and collect moonlight.
       A paraboloid        has the character that, if you point it at a source a long way away,
it will focus all the rays on to one point.”

[19:55] (Kevin Barry)
“Because Ove Arup is, to him, somebody who has confidently built up a company founded on a set of principles of the social purpose of engineering. So that modernity isn’t simply for its own sake, making it new. But it’s related to some kind of reflection. _{It says man has won that battle with nature.} And now, we have to live with the consequences of managing this conquered territory.”

[29:25] (Peter Rice)
“And I thought that if somehow, by introducing elements like that, we can make people, people who would normally be alienated by things, feel comfortable… it proved to me that the things that really matter is to introduce elements and materials into buildings in a way which reflects their real nature.”

[30:10] (Kevin Berry)
“Rice was somebody who didn’t want institutions to weigh on people. The building is a performance.
And the people who are in the building are seeing that performance from ^{their different perspectives.}
And the building ought to be as alive as something that is happening. And in that way, I think his humanism is to make people part of the play, spectators and actors at once. Building, for Rice, is a performance art.”

[31:43] (Humbert Camerlo)
“For Peter, I think the two things which interested him to start with was, of course,
_{to work with} ^light, with ^{natural light} . But also, to be involved in cross discipline, artist and scientist and scientific environments. The organic development of a project. The important thing is not to be prisoner of the idea you wanted to reach. You have to resist to the attraction of the goal. The attraction of the target. And you have to work and work, and then _{it’s not the arrow that goes into the target,} ^{it’s the target that comes to the arrow.} As the Taoist philosopher says,
“             Nothingness              is the meeting place of the noble traveller.””

[35:32] (Sophie Le Bouvra – Associate Director Arup)
“He liked having discussions about design. And not necessarily draw it too early, that was certainly one of the things he taught me is don’t draw things too early, because it stops the thinking. Whereas, if you’re ^{only talking about it,} there is a room where different people may have slightly different ideas.          But it leaves those ideas alive,          whereas if you’ve drawn it, it sort of freezes the sort of ideas.”

[40:14] (Martin Francis – designer)
“And one of the early meetings I have with Peter, I said one of the things engineers don’t understand is that _glass is a ^{flexible material.} And this was when Peter had this sort of eureka moment in which her said, if that’s the case, then we don’t need a rigid structure. Hitherto, everything was, you know, glass has got to be in a rigid frame, to stop it breaking. And he had this moment of insight.”

[56:02] (Humbert Camerlo)
“We would say in French, une demeure spirituelle. Demeure is more than home. Sculpture can be une demeure for the psyche. You know? A painting can be une demeure. A masterpiece is a psychic house for people. So, Peter, he found a place where he could rest.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007zg7

Einstein’s Quantum Riddle

[55:47] In a radical theory, known as the holographic universe, space and time are created by entangled quantum particles on a sphere that is infinitely far away.

Source: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_intro.asp

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000db95

The grid-auto-flow Property

The grid-auto-flow property controls how auto-placed items are inserted in the grid.

This grid has three columns and two rows.

grid-auto-flow: column

Insert items column by column:

grid-auto-flow: row

Insert items row by row:

Source: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_grid-auto-flow.asp

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w7b7x

Chasing the Moon series 1: 6. Magnificent Desolation

[09:31] (Theo Kameke – NASA Filmmaker)

and demonstrated different ways of moving around.

There was the being in the suit, and the lightness of the gravity.

What can I do? Well, I’ve got to hop like this. I got a big backpack, and you have to acknowledge that you are carrying that when you make a turn. It really wasn’t what you’d call a challenge, other than to look nonchalant in front of people.”

Source: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_perspective-origin.asp

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006vrn

Chasing the Moon series 1: 6. Magnificent Desolation

[09:31] (Theo Kameke – NASA Filmmaker) “There was a video camera that was recording them coming down the ladder, and then there was another portable camera, which they took and moved out away from the lunar module. And that was the only vision that humans around the world had of what was happening on the moon. (…) There’s a ghostly quality about it, because you can see through people. Well, that’s a very clever way that they had of limiting the amount of signal that they had to broadcast. You couldn’t transmit high-definition television from the equipment that they had on the moon. It couldn’t be done, so you’re going to have to pare down your expectations of the quality of the image that you’re going to see.”

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006vrn

The resize Property

Source: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_user_interface.asp

The transition Property

Hover over the green object above, to see the transition effect.

The writing-mode Property

Some text with default writing-mode.

Some text with a span element with a vertical-rl writing-mode.

Some text with writing-mode: vertical-rl.

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_writing-mode.asp

Movement

Click and hold the mouse button down while moving the green square.

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_draggable.asp

Drag and drop Charac between the two boxes.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_draganddrop.asp