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 The human body is art. Not a single human being is perfectly identical with another. Some come very close, like twins for example, but even they aren't identical. Obviously there are outliers, but most everyone has two legs, two arms, one head, and two eyes. Within this structure, the differences can be so fascinating and diverse. Differences include color, size, shape, and even texture all around the body. Inside the human body is even more complicated, and for  Andreas Vesalius to create " De Humani Corporis Fabrica" required intelligence and dedication to anatomy but also incredible artistic ability. He is called the f ounder of modern human anatomy because of his accurate illustration of the body and method of study.  Andreas Vesalius Illustration Even though medical practitioners today are able to use innovative technologies like X-rays, MRI's, and CAT scans to look inside the body, art is still a great help to the medicine world. For example, in understanding ...

My first event this quarter I attended " Atmosphere of Sound" - Patricia Cadavid.  I learned a lot from Patricia Cadavid's lecture even through zoom about art and science and how it changed throughout time. Patricia said that colonization of early modern cultures changed art and science forever because before colonization, art and science was always merged as one. Patricia said that the smartest people in these pre colonization cultures realized great things could be accomplished by using their b rainpower for both art and science, instead of one or the other. Colonization changed this for a long period of time by banning key instruments like the Khipu. In the image below is of a Native Andean astrologer and poet using a Khipu in his daily life.  The Khipu is a complex system for storing information and having cultured messages in a combination of knots. Patricia said that "Archeological studies have examined for years the ways to d...

 In the late 1700's to about 1840 the world was going through a period of time called "The Industrial Revolution". This was a time where machines were being built, electricity was being used to work through all hours of the night, assembly lines were made, and day to day life changed forever. In America, if you didn't get on the train then you had to get out of the way and get left behind. However, there was a certain phobia towards these machines as people were not used to them.  As the capabilities of these machines increased, so did the phobia surrounding them. It created two different mindsets, some fascinated with how robots could change our world for the better, and others very suspicious of how they could harm the human existence.  One of my favorite movies is I-Robot, which is a film starring Will Smith that is based around a phobia of robots and a story about how things could go wrong. It isn't incredibly realistic, but people are entertained by this kind...

 Mathematics is intertwined with everything we do in our daily lives. Wether you know it or not from the moment you wake up you do math in your head based on what time it is, how far you have to walk to use the restroom, to how long it is going to take you to prepare for your first activity of the day. I always knew that art and math really were on in the same whenever I tried drawing pictures like an experienced artist. When it comes to drawing three dimensional pictures, shapes, or learning perspective there is a lot of math involved. Brunelleschi discovered linear perspective by controlling the perspective of the observer through mathematics. He made the objects in the picture to scale with the vanishing point making the picture have depth.  It was interesting learning that drawing perspective is a mathematical theorem alongside geometry. The vanishing point is where the "infinite straight line L" becomes parallel with the views eyesight and the line vanishes out of their ...

 Starting when I was seven years old, football was a huge part of my life. I played quarterback my entire life, which is a position that requires a high level of understanding the game to be successful. I loved how the game worked so I fell in love with football early in life.     Me as a child playing in the street I have also always loved to draw and listen to music. It was hard for me to stay focused in class certain times because I could not stop drawing pictures. Drawing was something that gave me an escape (much like football), and still does even to this day.       As I began my high school career, the game of football got much more complicated, like a science. To break it down, in order to be successful you had to memorize rules such as: "If the safety moves to the left while you are in a certain formation, another player has to move across the field to cover his tracks, leaving a certain portion of the field vulnerable".  Me playing ...