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About a year ago, the New Yorker wrote an article on Robert Lang and his crazy mad origami skills.  I thought it was super cool, and wrote about it.  Here’s a newer piece that he’s done (yes, it’s one piece of paper):

In the latest TED talk, Robert Lang goes into more technical detail on how his origami designs are actually created.  (I watched this on my new black, 16 GB, super sexy iPhone while working out.  It rocked.)  The geek in me was intrigued.

One of the other talks I watched was by Benjamin Zander, on music and passion.  He speaks about the world’s approach classical music and the power of inspiring.  It’s also definitely worth a watch.

I just read a fascinating article in the New Yorker: “First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?” by Judith Thurman.

Here’s an excerpt from the first paragraph:

…After a visit to Lascaux [a cave in the South of France] …, which was discovered in 1940, Picasso reportedly said to his guide, “They’ve invented everything.” What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there will never be a Rosetta stone; perspective, a technique that was not rediscovered until the Athenian Golden Age; and a bestiary of such vitality and finesse that, by the flicker of torchlight, the animals seem to surge from the walls, and move across them like figures in a magic lantern show (in that sense, the artists invented animation). They also thought up … scaffolds to reach high places; the principles of stencilling and Pointillism; powdered colors, brushes, and stumping cloths; and, more to the point of Picasso’s insight, the very concept of an image. A true artist reimagines that concept with every blank canvas—but not from a void.