Revelling in the fact that there are financial contracts explicitly designed to benefit from volatility, and, the wind that extinguishes a candle also energizes the fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty & chaos: we want to be the fire and wish for the wind. You’d rather be helping Francis Ford Coppola build a butterfly farm onContinue reading “How to Love the Wind”
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WWDC20 – Who What And Why
WWDC – aka Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference – takes place every year in June, and it will happen again in June 2020. But this year it will be different. On 13 March Apple announced: “The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with anContinue reading “WWDC20 – Who What And Why”
How Divinity in Renaissance Art Can Appeal to a Modern Audience (Dissertation)
Renaissance art easily conjures mental imagery of both religious and erotic figures. Either heavily robed and demure, or athletic and provocatively nude. However, deeper symbolism can be missed by the most avid museum goer or gallery fiend.
As viewers, we are being primed in believing we can be divine while living vicariously through the divine beings. Identifying the Renaissance as a time of the greatest art acknowledges biblical art as the most influential. Whether blasphemous or erotic doesn’t diminish the fact that it is eternally provocative.
Posie Lombardi Rodriguez 