Of all the forms of visual art, photography is unique in that it has the ability to capture moments in real-time, as they are happening, virtually instantaneously. Since it’s invention, the photographic camera has been used to capture moments from our everyday lives, recording birthdays, family gatherings, the building of new structures, Sunday afternoons, andContinue reading “Inspiration – Capturing What You See”
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The Formula of the Fantastic (Part 2 of 2)
Alexander von Humboldt, as characterized by Kehlmann in Measuring the World, is a different type of man from Gauss all together. Kehlmann represents him as a man determined to classify, calculate, and quantify the world around him; and never to doubt that such things are possible. Within Kehlmann’s text, Humboldt is driven in this taskContinue reading “The Formula of the Fantastic (Part 2 of 2)”
Belief
Belief is a force more powerful than any other, as often misplaced as it is wisely bestowed. It has the potential to move mountains, topple governments, and resurrect the dead; in short, the strength to do the impossible. An emotion with such possibilities behind it should never be regarded with disdain or cynicism, but treatedContinue reading “Belief”
Inspiration – Henry V and War
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remember’d. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. ~ King Henry V, Henry V Shakespeare’s histories are rarely taught today, even in university level courses. As high school students, many haveContinue reading “Inspiration – Henry V and War”
The Formula of the Fantastic (Part 1 of 2)
Before becoming an internationally acclaimed author, Daniel Kehlmann worked studiously towards a doctorate in both philosophy and literature. If not for his huge success as a writer, Kehlmann would have finished his doctoral dissertation on “the sublime” in the works of Immanuel Kant. Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, theologian, and psychologist, like Kant, believed stronglyContinue reading “The Formula of the Fantastic (Part 1 of 2)”