In the beginning…

This is the first post to this site, but not my first attempt at blogging. I’ve previously been a part time, hobbyist type of blogger and although it felt good to write the things floating in my head it took some serious effort to get to the point where I found myself wanting to write on a daily or even weekly basis.

I began keeping on-line journals during my undergraduate years for two simple reasons.

1. It felt really good to drain the “stuff” out of my head and to let it fall onto a page: physical or electronic.
2. Competition.

How does competition come in to writing a personal journal? I’ll tell you.

Productivity – Procrastination and This Blog – Part 1

Why write about productivity in a blog dedicated to science and art? The answer is that productivity in the two fields is completely different.

Science is linear. Do A then do B and record in C. The beauty in science is that it has structure and is so rigidly fixed and fully developed that anything can be given a place within.

Art on the other hand runs in complex directions. The dynamic nature of the art cannot be confined into boxes. Its why we have such trouble defining a peice of art into a period of time or a stlye. Its why music has so many genres with new ones being developed and explored each time you plug in your headphones.

Neither of these systems works for everything. A classical piece by masters like Beethoven or Bach can be easily defined by the structure with which it was created. While the work of jackson Pollock cannot be summed with any known equation. Similarly the rules governing free fall are laws in the scientific community used to prove ideas, while the evolution of freezing surfaces which has yet to be fully characterized and mastered can produce snowflakes more beautiful than any which could be drawn.