The Cool House

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Geometry, Botany and Design


Pink and Yellow Peony. Beautiful, no? Here's something I bet you didn't know about pink and yellow: they do not "go together". This is a fact handed to me in primary school by, no not the art teacher, the maths teacher who gave me a really bad score in Tessellation because I coloured the triangles in my hexagon pink and yellow. Every mathematician apparently knows pink and yellow do not go together. Pink and blue? Fine. Blue and yellow? A+. Pink and yellow? C. What did I learn about geometry that day? Nothing, in fact my dislike of mathematics was born that day and lasted until I stumbled across the beauty of fractal geometry 25 years later. I did, however, discover I knew more about design than math teachers. And my love of pink and yellow remained, to be irrefutably justified by this photo.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Vacation Vistas VII


Leaving the Mainland
Long Island Sound

Vacation Vistas VI


Ominous Clouds
Mystic, Connecticut

Vacation Vistas V


Topiary
Newport, Rhode Island

Vacation Vistas IV


Abandoned Rails
Newport, Rhode Island

Vacation Vistas III


Shady Arbor
Newport, Rhode Island

Vacation Vistas II


Scarecrow Convention
Newport, Rhode Island

Vacation Vistas


Porpoise Driven
Newport, Rhode Island

Monday, June 15, 2009

A Day at the Museum


We're doing touristy things this week, like hanging out with this guy at The American Museum of Natural History


exploring Indonesia at the Margaret Mead exhibition


and of course, meeting "Dim Dum"
Off to New England for a few days of lobstah and sundownahs so posting will be light non-existant. Byeeee

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Dusk on the Dock


a little fishing


one last pass before night rolled in


the intense pink and deep navy sunset
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