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In just under four hours. Including running off to the bathroom every so often and distracting myself online too much (DSL has its downside).
I stopped because I'm in the middle of a scene which formerly resolved a certain way and now I think it should probably resolve a different way. And because I want to take a nap anddo something useful before the nice fellow comes home and it's time to get the kid.
The kid, for reasons I kind of understand but can't explain, is going to interview for an art college tomorrow, though she wants to go to a comprehensive school where she can study science and art at the same time.
This whole science-art divide thing is so artificial . . . I remember it used to make my mother (a scientific illustrator)furious. It causes Emma strange experiences. Her science camp chemistry teacher used to enthuse for hours about how rare and difficult it was to be arty and scientific at the same time. Her bagpipe teacher was greatly relieved when she said she was considering studying art -- "I'm glad you're not going to engineering school" he said, meaning to be complimentary (as in, "you are too cool, too wise, and too talented, to waste yourself in dull old engineering") -- but it infuriated Emma.
But, I ask you, even granting that Leonardo Da Vinci probably wasn't exactly a human being, how is it possible to draw the line? Illustration, design, expression, modelling, experimentation -- all of these are both science and art. Art is not magic. Or not more than science is.
No, magic is just the very fact of existence: the fact that anything exists at all is wondrous. Everything else is pattern and chaos.
I stopped because I'm in the middle of a scene which formerly resolved a certain way and now I think it should probably resolve a different way. And because I want to take a nap anddo something useful before the nice fellow comes home and it's time to get the kid.
The kid, for reasons I kind of understand but can't explain, is going to interview for an art college tomorrow, though she wants to go to a comprehensive school where she can study science and art at the same time.
This whole science-art divide thing is so artificial . . . I remember it used to make my mother (a scientific illustrator)furious. It causes Emma strange experiences. Her science camp chemistry teacher used to enthuse for hours about how rare and difficult it was to be arty and scientific at the same time. Her bagpipe teacher was greatly relieved when she said she was considering studying art -- "I'm glad you're not going to engineering school" he said, meaning to be complimentary (as in, "you are too cool, too wise, and too talented, to waste yourself in dull old engineering") -- but it infuriated Emma.
But, I ask you, even granting that Leonardo Da Vinci probably wasn't exactly a human being, how is it possible to draw the line? Illustration, design, expression, modelling, experimentation -- all of these are both science and art. Art is not magic. Or not more than science is.
No, magic is just the very fact of existence: the fact that anything exists at all is wondrous. Everything else is pattern and chaos.
Science, Art and Leonardo
I'm intrigued by this throwaway clause. Care to elaborate?
It is a continuting source of shame to me that I never took physics, largely because I had so much trouble with both chemistry and intermediate algebra. Still, nobody ever conveyed to me the idea that one should be good in the arts OR sciences, but not both. After all, the sf field involves a confluence of the two. Have attitudes changed so much in the past 30 years, or is your daughter's experience an isolated case?
Karen
dropping in from Making Light
Re: Science, Art and Leonardo
And well, nobody overtly says that except the chemistry teacher (who gave it the lie in the same sentence alking about the music he and his son played, silly man: but that wasn't the only silly thing he ever did). But they often kind of take sides in this stupid made-up conflict. Like the silly bagpipe teacher. Who was really mainly expressing his support of her artsiness.