Overall, is the cover really ugly? Check. Are the colors so dreary that its a relief to look away from them? Check. Is the pose raunchy? Not “come hither“ raunchy but more repulsive raunchy? In your face, raunchy? Check. Are the clothes ordinary and and the styling vulgar with a real “been here before but with more class” feeling. Check. Is the expression and demeanor of the subject unflattering to her and off-putting to the viewer? Check

In our technological age much discussion takes place about where technology is leading us an how science is shaping our lives. …

Dear Wired, have you become part of the war machine? From Live Feed (by Morgan Meaker), “As defense companies worldwide court Ukraine for access to real-time combat data, Kiev wants to keep the resource for its own booming arms industry.” This is sick! We need to end the arms race…

Dear Wired, is that the best that Wired can do? Offer us the insights of a self-obsessed pop star who doesn’t even value life on Earth? And you have her on the cover? You should re-brand as Wired People. She wants to go Mars. Grimes, please go and take Elon with you, and Wired can follow you there. How can Wired feature a woman whose main purpose in life is to have the children of Elon Musk in some kind of weird racist fantasy to increase the number of white people? Musk is not a good person. He is a Trump supporter and you pander to him and his mad scientist ideas. His satellites are making it hard to see the stars and planets.

Dear Real Simple, I have held off writing in hopes you would change but with the latest issue in hand I can’t put it off any longer. …

It appears The Atlantic has become another device designed to destroy history. I was in disbelief over “How San Francisco Became a Failed City by Nellie Bowles (The Atlantic, 6/8/22). People get paid for writing this garbage? Amazing. (See my article “In response to: How San Francisco Became a Failed…

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” 1977 Anna Sofaer, an artist, was exploring rock art in Chaco Canyon and discovered the sun dagger. Her interest in native American art and her desire to increase her knowledge and experience of this art led her to explore the environment where the art was…

Zurich, Berlin, Paris, New York, Hugo Ball, Tzara, manifestos, polemics — anti-art, anti-museum, Freud. Marx, Lenin, Artaud, Schwitters, Apollinaire, Marcel Duchamp (Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto), lazy, chaos, shock, war, found objects, erase distinction between life and art — magazines, performance art, photo montage, collage

Symbolic and mythic thinking: nature as source and bridge between science and art Symbol: from the Greek sym, meaning: together, with, in common; bolon, meaning: to throw together, a throw with a casting-net, a net, the thing caught. A symbol can’t be reduced to a sign and often carries irreconcilable, paradoxical images. A symbol can take many forms. It can be a dream…