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Geometry Playground: Passionately Curious (Clip)

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00:04:22

For John Edmark, geometry is a foundation for creating beauty. Here he explains his interest in unexpected natural phenemona, and how visitors to his kaleidoscopic piece, The Geometron, can turn simple shapes into surprisingly intricate patterns of reflection.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: geometry, geometron, reflection, kaleidoscope, art, john edmark

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Geometry Playground

Geometry Playground: It Feels Wonderful (Clip)

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00:04:22

Master weaver Stacy Speyer explains how her relationship to math morphed from casual curiosity into an intensive study of the multifaceted shapes known as polyhedra. After re-creating these fundamental geometric forms in different materials, she developed her own variations and juxtapositions.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: stacy speyer, math, geometry, polyhedra

Geometry Playground: Beauty Is A Way In (Clip)

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00:04:34

Tauba Auerbach talks about randomness, the unity of art and science, and the way her Geometry Playground piece uses the beauty of geometry to draw visitors into a zone of comfort with math and their own artistic capabilities.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: randomness, tauba auerbach, art, science, geometry, spirograph

After Dark: Cosmological Constructs: Artist Dan Goods (Clip)

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01:23

In this short interview with Dan Goods, designer, artist, and visual strategist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goods discusses his art piece, "Jupiter Fog Pool." The piece, inspired by the Juno mission to Jupiter, was part of "Cosmological Constructs," our After Dark event of September 2010.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: dan goods, jet propulsion lab, jpl, fog, fog pool, nasa, juno, jupiter, after dark, space

Driven: Flowers on the Freeway (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:45

Hayes Valley Farm is a community-run farm on a former freeway in the middle of San Francisco. The land was slated for condo development but the plan was put off when the economy slumped. Out of the ashes of that dream arose a utopia of a different sort; a suspended reality where fruit trees are grown on what was once a freeway on-ramp choked with cars. Now there are flowers growing out of the double yellow lines, and constant opportunities for children and adults to learn how to grow food and to get dirty doing it. Although the farm has only an "interim use" permit, meaning that it can't last forever, farmers Zoey Kroll and Jay Rosenberg know that the enduring harvest of this project--the truth that even the most outlandish-sounding things are possible if we make them so--will far outlive the farm itself.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: August 27, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art

Keywords: farm, hayes valley farm, zoey kroll, jay rosenberg

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Hayes Valley Farm official website

Speaking of Music Rewind: Meredith Monk Part 1 (Podcast)

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01:07:18

Meredith Monk has been on the vanguard of interdisciplinary performance for 45 years. In this conversation from 1984, she discusses her works of that era, reflects on her process and aspirations for her work, takes questions, and performs excerpts from Education of the Girlchild.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: August 20, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: meredith monk, opera, speaking of music

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Speaking of Music Rewind: Meredith Monk Part 2 (Podcast)

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00:53:35

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Geometry Playground: Geometric Threads (Clip)

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00:02:48

Amy Williams, chair of Fashion at San Francisco's California College of Arts encourages the creative spirit of her students through creation of opulent gowns, made in a day with just pattern makers tissue and tape. The result is not only an education for students, but also a playful and performative experience in the process of fashion creation.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: August 10, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Art, general science,

Keywords: art, design, geometry, playground, fashion, triangles, patterns, amy williams

Driven: Story of a Plate (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:16

Chef Mourad Lahlou of Aziza restaurant is known for elegance and sophistication in his modern Moroccan dishes but often finds inspiration in simple things and unlikely places. In this journey behind the kitchen door, we shadow his entire process as he follows his heart from farm to table. The process is a solid team effort, from Lahlou's special relationships with the people who grow the food to the collaborative kitchen environment that he cultivates. We witness Chef Lahlou blend art and science, and precision and innovation, in his quest to create a plate that is elegant, surprising, and true to its ingredients.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: August 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: chef, aziza, mourad lahlou, cooking

After Dark: Nomadic Communities (Clip)

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00:02:43

This After Dark event explored the diverse nomadic communities that thrive in the Bay Area including a mobile diner, food carts, an annual arts event in the desert, urban foragers, and Bay creatures that arrived by ballast water.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: August 8, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: burning man, after dark, dust city diner, succulents, ice cream, food carts, nomades, bay, exotic species, exploratorium


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