Jessica Bromley Bartram: Exploring social issues through visual science fiction
One of the things I want to explore with this blog is the way that art informs science and science influences art. What better way to examine this interaction than to interview an artist. My first interview, with graphic designer Jessica Bromley Bartram, will be split into two posts. The first part focuses on the narrative and research behind her thesis project "Rise and Fall of Cordycepts". I hope you enjoy!
Found techno-poetry
Yesterday I wrote about how your brain responds to poetry. Today I'm posting some 'found poetry' I made using a neat website called Poetweet. Found poetry is a kind of poetry made up of words and passages that the writer 'finds' from other sources. Magnetic poetry could be called found poetry. I've read found poems made of road signs, newspaper articles and I heard Madhur Anand read a poem extracted from a research article.
Poetweet uses social media as the source of words and passages. It's a neat idea. The site mines your tweets for text that it combines into a short poem. I was tweeting quite a lot about NASA's Mars announcement yesterday and inevitably it came across in my tweet-poems.
Poetry and your brain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ash-bash/2095516159/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/ I'm taking part in Writing 101: Finding Everyday Inspiration for the month of September and in October, I will be taking part in Blogging University's Writing 201: Poetry. I've managed to get some posts hammered out for Writing 101 and I'm really looking forward to the poetry course.
The taint of city lights
Look up at the sky tonight. What will you see? If you live in a rural area, you'll probably see a the glittering of stars as faint as pinpricks. Maybe even the arch of the Milky Way. If you live in a city, however, the night sky will look very different. You'll probably see the moon. Some stars. Maybe. The reason for this major difference in the night sky is because of something called light pollution.
Light pollution is problematic for anyone interested in the night sky. Apart from the brightest objects in the heavens, nothing is a match for the sheer illuminative power of a city at night.
Love changes us
Today, my Writing 101 prompt was to be inspired by a single word from a list provided. Since my partner and I are celebrating our anniversary this month (yay us), I decided to tackle the word 'love'.