Nano+Bio+Art

Today was the last official day of the program and I had an absolute blast. I realized that I never mentioned the Look Around You videos we watch every morning.  They are part of a british series that are supposed to be comedy disguised as an educational program. I will admit it took me a while to [...]

Today in Pinar and Sara’s lecture, they talked about light and optics. One thing that caught my eye was the technique of Monet and Seurat who painted using tiny dots that overlap to produce an image. It was like making something by using alternative materials. This technique is similar to the way comic books are printed [...]

After a very relaxing Sunday, I was ready to jump into this week. It struck me this morning during Rita and Mattia’s lecture that I had no idea how humans smell things. The vibration theory they talked about actually made a lot of sense to me. The idea that the vibrations of certain molecules decides what [...]

I will admit it, I usually hate art museums. I never quite got the point of walking around giant rooms with paintings on the walls and just staring at them, I usually think that when you’ve seen one piece in an exhibition, you’ve seen them all. I was only slightly excited for the Getty because I [...]

After a very relaxing Sunday, I was ready to jump into this week. It struck me this morning during Rita and Mattia’s lecture that I had no idea how humans smell things. The vibration theory they talked about actually made a lot of sense to me. The idea that the vibrations of certain molecules decides what [...]

While this entire program has been full of new experiences, I think Saturday was the day that I got to see things that I never get to see at home or even the UCLA campus for that matter. The California Science Center reminded me of a museum back home that I used to volunteer at called [...]

Today was a nice change from the past few days of running around UCLA. I think today was a lot about interactivity because the presenter in the morning talked about his interactive exhibit, my group presented an interactive idea for our midterm, and the last presentation was about another interactive exhibit. I was pretty excited to see another [...]

Today, we started the day off with a presentation on light and optics which is one aspects of physics that I absolutely love. I found it really interesting that opacity of objects is caused by a gap in the atomic structures of various elements and that this gap is created when electrons get excited and calm [...]

After an epic win from the US soccer team, we had a lecture on finding art in nature. I never realized that the patterns that I loved in flowers and plants actually had a mathematical meaning behind them. Fractals reminded me of the fractal trees which are a graphic representation of fractals by starting out with a [...]

I was really excited about the waves lecture because we had just covered it in my Physics class not too long ago, but today’s lecture was way more interesting than my physics teacher with a bunch of transparencies and an overhead projector. I had never heard of the pentatonic scale before today and I thought the [...]

Day 1 at UCLA was tiring both mentally and physically. The video about looking around you had the same feel as a Monty Python skit and it took me a minute to figure out if it was a parody or it was a serious lecture from a fancy British university. Infecting a “professor” with sewage water [...]