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Hofstadter's unique intellectual makeup is rooted in his childhood. His father was Robert Hofstadter, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961. As a boy, Hofstadter was fascinated by visual and conceptual loops: feedback, self-reference, recursiveness, anything that curved back on itself in an unexpected way. He provides several examples in I Am a Strange Loop (which is, among many other things, an intellectual autobiography). In the comic strip Nancy, Sluggo has a dream about a dreaming Sluggo, who is also dreaming of Sluggo, and so on in an infinite chain. The girl on the Morton...
...green issues as the basis for their senior theses. According to an April 26, 2006 article in The Crimson, Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square that sold a line of self-designed, water-resistant clothes and accessories as part of her visual and environmental studies thesis. She called it The Climate Change Preparedness Center...
...sorry, but I can’t really talk about it.There are many more dresses which I could have highlighted, but I just can’t really deal with them right now. Suffice it to say, those rejects needed a little more oomph or visual interest. The Oscars is one of the few occasions where it is appropriate to wear couture, and starlets should take advantage of it. I want someone to wear a dress with a glittery image of Michael Jackson embroidered on it. No, wait—I’m lying, because that already happened...
...other photographs, and is part of the larger allegory of water-as-mother. Clergue’s nudes are not merely in the water, but are absorbed in it, as if flesh and water were the same transmutable substance. If water is mother in Clergue’s visual vocabulary, then the city is man. Clergue’s industrial skylines serve as antagonists to the female form, which has been removed from nurturing rivulets and seas. In “Primavera in New York,” a woman bathes in a rhombus of springtime light—rather...
...both the set designer and technical director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pterodactyls,” a play written by Nicky Silver that opens this Friday at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Thompson is responsible for the show’s visual centerpiece, a model Tyrannosaurus Rex that is nearly nine feet tall. "First off, you have to build a dinosaur. It has to be big. It has to look like a dinosaur. It has to be constructed throughout the play. It has to be at various stages of completion throughout...