Event 3

The Museum of Jurassic Technology:

The Museum of Jurassic Technology was by far the most interesting museum I have visited. The unique ora that was inside the museum made it one of a kind. Although we were not allowed to take photos in the museum, the person at the front of the exhibit handed my classmate and I a paper that had summarized the main focus of the museum: To be experienced with new senses and and lead to new things through your own mind.

When I walked in I sensed some musky wet smell. The lighting in the museum was also different as well, it was darker than usual with different lighting from the roof. There was a voice recording that played throughout the museum as well as animal noises. Even though anything that was being said through the speakers didn't really relate to the things I was seeing, it related back to the paper that I read when I walked in. This museum allowed me to walk in and sense things myself and make my own inference. The quote on the paper read "The learner must be led away from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it-were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

Something that I take from the class that related to the museum was the dog pictures displayed throughout an area. To me, it seemed as if the photos of the dogs were recognizing the importance of sending the first non human organism to the moon. This specific idea was covered in week 9 where the topic was space and art. In lecture 3 they talked about the Russians sending a dog named Laika into space but it only living for 6 days. They wanted to monitor the dog in space to see how that environment would affect the dogs body. What really intrigued me was all the photos that the museum had displayed of the dog as if we were looking at its gravesite. It seemed to be that here was the recognition that the dog received after passing away from going into space. Overall, I thought that this museum was frankly a "weird" museum. Going off of that, I think this is why I enjoyed the museum so much. It was not an ordinary museum and instead it put the audience in through different sensations than that of a normal museum. I would defiantly recommend this to a classmate or friend who is in search of something different and new. 

(Below here is a photo I searched on the internet of Laika since we were not allowed to take photographs in the museum) 

http://www.pawsforthenews.tv/1news/1featured-news/in-history-today-november-3rd-in-1957-the-soviet-union-launches-the-first-animal-into-space/

Event 2

The Getty

I took a visit to the Getty museum about a year ago before I was enrolled in Desma9. When I went for the second time after learning some new concepts from this class, I had a totally new outlook on the pieces of art. I found that I was able to incorporate what I learned from the lectures with the actual pieces displayed in the museum. For example, I was able to apply the idea of a focal point with linear perspective on some of the oil paintings which has to do with the mathematics and art week. I was also able to see a microscope from 1751 that was shown on display which signified to me the intertwining of art and science. Overall, the visit I had to the Getty the second time had much more of a knowledgeable impact on me than when I first had gone without the knowledge I now know from Dismal.

This picture here to left was taken by myself at the Getty. This is a oil on canvas of the Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flamgini to Campo San Marcuola. The moment I walked up to this painting I noticed the depth perception and I was able to relate it to what we learned in unit 2 regarding math and art. This oil painting showed the idea of Duccio's linear perspective where he would draw lines downward at eye level. Also you can have a focal point where you draw all the lines too which gives the painting a type of depth perspective.

This photo to the right is a Compound Microscope and Case from 1751 which was originally made for wealthy French people who enjoyed studying natural specimens. This microscope shows that something scientific can also be viewed as a piece of art. You can relate this piece to medicine and art because what a microscope is used for. Back then, the study of natural specimens became a new thing and if people were to find medical discovery's though his invention it could benefit the people. This picture at the Getty shows the importance of medicine and it can be showed in an artistic way.

I would say overall my visit to the Getty was much  more enjoyable once I knew the things I know from Desma9. I would definitely recommend this museum to anyone whose visiting the Los Angeles area.

WEEK 9

SPACE & ART

Overall in week 9's lesson, I learned that everything ties together through space weather it be nanotechnology, biotechnology, or robots.
An interesting subject of the power of 10 is what I found quite interesting in this lesson. It shows you how much your perspective could change in just 10 seconds. For example, the zooming out of a picnic in Chicago. After they zoom out, it zooms back in all the way to the skin of the mans hand and enters in lymphocyte. These are the nucleus of the white blood cells.

In lecture 1 the sky is seen upon a magnificent piece. Carl Sagan is who first sought of cosmos being popular and has a video called the pale blue dot.
Copernicus is an Astronomer who believed that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth rotated around the sun on an axis. I thought that this was interesting because Copernicus was afraid that he would get in trouble with the church if he spread his idea of the solar system, so instead he remained quiet about it and later spoke.

I thought lecture 3 was interesting because it had to do with animals going into space. They first sent a dog Laika into space but it only lived 6 days. They wanted to monitor the dog in space to see how the body changes. Later on, the United States trained an animal that was more similar to the human body, a chimp, and took some to space. These were the largest animals to go into space.

In Lecture 5 it described the first non governmental space craft launched into space which was something new. The idea was to develop lower cost space travel even though more than 100 million dollars were invested to new technologies.


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