Word: statics
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...Serene, but a little static and ceremonious. The Virgin and Child with Saints, a panel painting from the Bellini workshop that was done in the years around 1505 when Titian worked there, is typical. Six gently realized figures are aligned simply in a row toward the viewer, barely acknowledging one another. The genre is called a sacra conversazione - sacred conversation - but nobody in this picture seems to be on speaking terms. Less than a decade later, in Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, Saint Dominic, and a Donor, Titian, by then in charge of his own studio, brought the Virgin...
...Intellipedia's godfather is CIA analyst D. Calvin Andrus, who wrote a paper in 2004 titled "The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community." For decades, the U.S. intelligence system had been structured to answer static Cold War-era questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What the U.S. needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...Killr Punx, Scary Demons.”Take, for example, the representative first track of “Wavvves,” entitled “Rainbow Everywhere.” A voiceless introduction to the album, the piece jumps between electric frequencies underneath heavy static and hovers around just a couple of simple chords. The track ends up sounding awfully reminiscent of an elongated modem dial-up tone. Similarly, the incessant static buzz of “More Fur,” with no tune or beat of which to speak, comes off as a four-minute sample...
...balloon animals. And actually, people twirling, running, and diving in the balloons did create ocean-like waves. At one point, FlyBy joined everyone else in the room as we ran from one end of the Artspace to the other, creating a giant balloon tsunami. For a final touch, the static electricity generated by thousands of balloons rubbing against each other allowed some to stay stuck to the ceiling, creating splotches of blue...
...don’t miss out! Just a bit of advice, though: watch out for the static...