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...happened to speed up to 17,505 m.p.h., the most it could do is nudge another ship at 5 m.p.h. Attaining orbit is like entering an expressway: the tricky part is merging; once you're there, all you have to do is maintain your speed, and you'll be fine. (Read "Are We Bringing Our Germs to Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Is Too Much Space Junk? | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...Fine, now how do you determine whether artistic or scientific creations are original and exemplary? One method Simonton and others use is to add up the number of times an individual's publications are cited in professional literature - or, say, the number of times a composer's work is performed and recorded. Other investigators count encyclopedia references instead. Such methods may not be terribly sophisticated, but the answer they yield is at least a hard quantity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...documentary “Man on Wire” and a question and answer session with its producer Maureen Ryan. The awards ceremony celebrated local film managers and coordinators, like Kelly Teer and Stefanie Lubkowski—who both recently left their positions at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts—as well as other unsung heroes of the film preservation community, like Steve Livernash of the Harvard Film Archive. Boston Phoenix columnist Gerald Peary described Livernash as “the Dean of Film Projectionists,” praising not only his knowledge of cinematic aesthetics but also...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Critics Toast Year at Brattle Theatre | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...terms on the exhibition pamphlet, itself designed as a piece of advertising, includes words ranging from “Appropriate” to “Culture Jamming,” indicating the disparate backgrounds of visitors to the show, as well as the mixture of “fine art” and “street art” in Fairey’s work...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet and Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Shepard Fairey and the Obedience Paradox | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...more overt messages. Standing beneath his largest inside work to date, which the ICA commissioned for “Supply and Demand,” Fairey said, “It combines the scale and presence of street art with the depth of what I call fine art.” Countering questions with a humor that also contains a certain biting honesty, he says of the difference between “fine art” and street art, “When it’s on canvas, then it’s fine art, right? I think there...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet and Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Shepard Fairey and the Obedience Paradox | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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