Re: Well, This Is Pretty Goddamn Cool
Smorley
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Agreed. I have a peripheral association with a lot of big time physics in my work. This has been ongoing--the
prep for this--for ages. It's so cool to see it's nearly to the point of seeing if it will work. Or, just as
likely, will be a link in a chain that will one day (soon, I hope) see it work. When I started working
with these physics sorts, I understood about 10% of what they were on about. I'm up to about 30%
now. In another 100 years, I am hoping to make it to 32%. But my art brain sure does love the beauty
contained within it all. On a related topic, I saw this very good, but very sad docu on Sundance yesterday called The
Manufactured World. A photographer goes all over the world--this time to China--to film the mind-
boggling devastation/change the Chinese are undergoing, suffering to take the country from 10%
urban/90% agrarian at the end of the Mao hell to 70% urban/30% agrarian in the very near future.
And a lot of it, naturally, involves how this involves oil, nuclear and coal in ways that are just
devastating people's and environments. The 3 gorges Yangtze River project and the bit on Shanghai is
enough to make me want to crawl under the couch with grief. The teeming world of too many with too little is likely the topic for the rest of the lives of everyone
who frequents this board, of everyone alive right now. Two killa books on this are the novel Sacred
Games by Chandra and the non-fiction book Maximum City by Mehta. They're both about Mumbai.
The only American writer who traffics in this topic with genius that I know of is Delillo. All of this to say, let's build a little star and hope it works.
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Smorley
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Agreed. I have a peripheral association with a lot of big time physics in my work. This has been ongoing--the
prep for this--for ages. It's so cool to see it's nearly to the point of seeing if it will work. Or, just as
likely, will be a link in a chain that will one day (soon, I hope) see it work. When I started working
with these physics sorts, I understood about 10% of what they were on about. I'm up to about 30%
now. In another 100 years, I am hoping to make it to 32%. But my art brain sure does love the beauty
contained within it all. On a related topic, I saw this very good, but very sad docu on Sundance yesterday called The
Manufactured World. A photographer goes all over the world--this time to China--to film the mind-
boggling devastation/change the Chinese are undergoing, suffering to take the country from 10%
urban/90% agrarian at the end of the Mao hell to 70% urban/30% agrarian in the very near future.
And a lot of it, naturally, involves how this involves oil, nuclear and coal in ways that are just
devastating people's and environments. The 3 gorges Yangtze River project and the bit on Shanghai is
enough to make me want to crawl under the couch with grief. The teeming world of too many with too little is likely the topic for the rest of the lives of everyone
who frequents this board, of everyone alive right now. Two killa books on this are the novel Sacred
Games by Chandra and the non-fiction book Maximum City by Mehta. They're both about Mumbai.
The only American writer who traffics in this topic with genius that I know of is Delillo. All of this to say, let's build a little star and hope it works.
