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The accidental camera - It’s news to me - I picked up an off-beat article - like so much on the Internet, I got to it with almost a random sequence of clicks. At first, Natalie Wolchover’s “The New Science of Seeing Around Corners” (Quanta Magazine Algorithms Column, Aug 30, 2018) seemed damn stupid to me. A scientist looks at light on the wall and sees movement. Big deal – so what? I read on a bit, put the article down, but soon it seemed I was seeing everyday things a little differently. Thanks to Cecelia, as well, I found the pond ripple effect of reflection of light on a lobster pot. It was the reflection of overhead kitchen light as the fan spun. The article discusses natural camera shots that are formed by sun rays passing through a window and alighting on a surface. They were seen by an MIT scientist, noticed as color patches on a wall while in a hotel room on vacation in Spain – good idea that – and he theorized the existence of something called an “accidental camera.” These ...

For Dr John -  Sitting on top of the world on a string Cause A penny make a nickel and nickel make a dime The music is in the humidity And vice versa Between the keys Some perplexion, some big easy at Doogies or Yudas, Yunderstand? Related: 9th Ward Ride  - MoonTravellerHerald, 2006

Santiago cathedral 700 years old     Looming right outside our window Intricate arched wooden doorway     Huge flower shaped  Stained glass   Gargoyle  animals   Snarling in stone with  twisted heads    of lost terrified men  Staring  down into eternity and     At bricks, washed by a fire hose at 2am   by Basque  workers  in green and orange  jump suits   Washing away beer and fear  Cleaning those bricks    So people can walk  Into  the old cathedral       With fresh feet                                    - Jeff DeMark, 2019

On American Routes radio , there was a very interesting vignette about Raymond Scott, and enthralling related conversation with Bob Moog – maker of the Moog synthesizer. Scott was a key composer behind some of the looniest Loony Tune music, and a force in electronic music. He had a stint as the orchestra leader for the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, but his very modern sounding music - he was entranced by the sound of the modern, much as one of his influences, Duke Ellington. What I did not know was how much he did in the domain of electronic music. Among other things, he invented the Clavivox. Hear it. Scott’s family had a radio store of some kind. His brother talked him into music school, because of his great prodigy, but his first interest was engineering. On the show, Moog described going to Scott’s house in one of the boroughs. It had an elaborate basement with rooms for woodworking, for metal work, for electronics work. All kinds of tools. Mad scientist stuff. Moog was young. H...