Music
December 27, 2024

John Coltrane’s ‘Circle of Tones’ Illustration Beautifully Visualizes the Connections Between Mathematics and Music

Pythagoras once claimed that “there is geometry in the humming of the strings, and there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” The accomplished jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer John Coltrane thought similarly. In 1967, Coltrane presented a geometric drawing to fellow saxophonist and professor Yusef Lateef. The drawing seemed to resemble a clock, featuring a circular pattern that connected musical notes with neatly spaced lines.

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Aerial Photography
December 27, 2024

Eye-Opening Photos Reveal Where World’s Food Comes From and What It Takes to Feed the Planet

For the past decade, award-winning documentary photographer George Steinmetz has been taking a look at the immense effort needed to put food on our table. With his new book Feed the Planet, we go around the world, from food processing plants in China to wheat fields in the American Midwest. Through his lens, we get an insider look at where our food really comes from.

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Street Art
December 26, 2024

Artist Turns Icy Landscape Into Ephemeral Art Inspired by Spiral Forms of Ammonites [Interview]

Artist David Popa is known for his extraordinary earth murals. Using natural materials, he creates stunning ephemeral pieces that slowly blend back into the Earth. For one of his latest projects, he was inspired by nature itself, specifically the spiral form of ammonites. These prehistoric shelled cephalopods died out about 66 million years ago, but their fossils can be found around the world.

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Embroidery
December 26, 2024

Embroidered Aerial Views of Classical English Gardens and Rural Landscapes

British textile artist Victoria Rose Richards is known for her striking embroidery designs that depict aerial perspectives of rural England. While her earlier work featured fabric patchworks of fields, rivers represented by meandering stitches, and 3D clusters of knots for foliage, her latest creations embrace a new, geometric approach. Richards discovered her passion for embroidery in 2018 when she selected threads from her grandmother’s embroidery tin.

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