Digress!

 

 

 

 

Digitally rendered works by Andreas N. Fischer

 

 

 

 

"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself"
-Bertrand Russell

 

 

 

Human-informed structures by Atelier Olschinsky

 

 

Alison Blickle

 

Small talk can be intimidating.

With all that’s going on around me, with all of the encounters, experiences, and personal conundrums mulling over inside my head, how the hell do I answer the assumedly easy question

“How are you?”

What do I say to

“What’s up?”

Uh, I dunno, we’re floating in space, I’m just catching up with what our species has created over the past few centuries, my dreams confuse me, I feel like I can never know enough, I’m only pretending to understand the world and I present the answer

“Not much”

Just to make your moment a little less complicated, to comfort you by giving order to an orderless world, to keep things simple between us rather than open you onto the overwhelming frenzy that, I notice, is life.

 

So, let’s dance instead: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120710.html