Archive for the ‘Book Riffs’ Category
Listening to my unconscious: a riff inspired by authors R. Kurzban and J. Lehrer and V. Woolf
In the previous post I gave an example of listening to my unconscious – or what I might call my “key tracking mind app” in that particular case, if I am to draw upon Robert Kurzban’s multiple minds theory (Why Everyone [Else] is a Hypocrite). Another interesting incident of unconscious watching occurred last December. I [...]
July 10, 2011
Tags: author Terry Bailey, brain and creativity, brain app, Carmel, dream, Jonah Lehrer, mind and creativity, mind app, Monterey, new media author Terry Bailey, Pacific Grove, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Salome, seals of Monterey Bay, self, unconscious, unconsious and creativity, Virginia Woolf, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels 
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Back to Proust Was a Neuroscientist – with an intro riff to Kurzban’s Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite
I’m writing at a Starbucks in Encino today. Outside. Beautiful day. I love L.A.! Just came from a seminar on Neuroscience and Creativity at UCLA. I’ll have a few comments about that in a later post. I seem to be on a theme roll for a while here with those two topics. I gotta admit, [...]
June 25, 2011
Tags: brain and creativity, creativity, creativity and, Jonah Lehrer, Monterey, Proust was a Neu, Robert Kurzban, Salome, unconscious, Virginia Woolf, walt whitman, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
A night of Latin Jazz, Flamenco, Bossa Nova and my Red Dress song
If my Other Mother, Esther, had not passed away two days before this concert, I would have recorded some of it for you. As it was, it was the best I could do to give a good performance. (I will post some music at a later date.) It helped that I had three awesome musicians [...]
June 18, 2011
Tags: Barry Kohan, bossa nova, Caltech, fingerstyle guitar, Fireside Concert Series, Flamenco, Freeman Dyson, Goh Kurosawa, Hugo Aguayo, Jonah Lehrer, Latin Jazz, Patsy Cline, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Why everyone (else) is a hyocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Art Life Continues to Eclipse Book Riffing – for another week or so
I have so many stories to continue now! I will post more images of my Digital Eclectic art show, which runs through June 17 and had its reception last week. I will get back to riffing on Proust Was A Neruoscientist, too. And on to the new books I am reading – by Freeman [...]
May 22, 2011
Tags: Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, digital art, Digital Eclectic, electronic art, fingerstyle guitar, Fireside Concert Series, Freeman Dyson, Goh Kurosawa, interactive art, Newbury Park, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Terry Bailey Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
I curate a digital art show: Digital Eclectic
Sometimes one life lived by a multimedia/new media artist, me, casts a shadow over another of her lives. I don’t refer to a dark, negative cast. More like a temporary solar eclipse. In this case, my art is eclipsing my book riffing. But instead of disappearing from my literary blog until the eclipse passes, I [...]
May 16, 2011
Tags: Antioch University, Ari Danesh, Bernadette Murphy, digital art, Digital Eclectic, interactive art, interactive light, interactive sound, Joseph Norton, learner centered teaching, learner-centered, Mike Winter, multimedia art, new media art, NoHo, Sharman Russell, Terry Bailey, Terry Wolverton, WEB art, WEB history Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Okay. Walt Whitman and Neuroscience.
“The moral of this book is that we are made of art and science . . . .any description of the brain requires both cultures, art and science.” (Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, X) It’s kind of funny if you really think about it. Reductionist theory. The idea that we would understand something by [...]
May 1, 2011
Tags: art and science, Damasio, Henry James, Jonah Lehrer, Leaves of Grass, mind body loop, neuroscience, pragmatist, Proust Was a Neuroscientis, Proust was a Neuroscientist, psychology and creativity, Reductionist Theory, William James Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
P.S. re: my last post about rock
I discovered that my rock animation was too big (used too much memory) to run on my Android phone. So, I had to spend today reducing the size of it (see animation below in last post) so anyone with a Flash enabled phone, tablet or browser can see it. But it is actually BIGGER than [...]
April 10, 2011
Tags: bossa nova, Jonah Lehrer, Patsy Cline, Proust was a Neuroscientist, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Reductionist Theory, rock animation, Steve Jobs, walt whitman Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
Reductionist Theory and Truth
This (Flash) animation is the annotation for the essay I will post next, riffing on Proust Was a Neuroscientist. See you with that next week! I humbly thank all my readers in the world for helping to make this blog #22 out of 600+ literary blogs on blogger.com last [...]
April 3, 2011
Tags: art and neuroscience, art and science, Jonah Lehrer, neuroscience and creativity, new media literary blog, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Reductionist Theory Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Some Personal Philosophy – and Why You Will Not Read About Any Unsuccessful Books in this Blog
I read lots of books. Some of them I don’t mention here. Since one of the topics I have studied and taught is branding and cognitive theory, I know that even a negative review of something will bring attention to it and arouse the curiosity of some to the [...]
March 17, 2011
Tags: art and science, color theory, electronic literature, Flash, Jonah Lehrer, literary blog, new media literature, new media writing, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Terry Bailey, WEB history Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Art Is Science!
Art is difficult. Whether the art is for “commercial purposes” – as in the litigation support interactive project I created for Texaco in 1997 (shown in the demo animation above) – or art that is considered “fine art” – art that may be bought and sold, but is created by an artist for non commercial [...]
February 25, 2011
Tags: Anheuser-Busch, art and law, art and science, art is science, brain and creativity, creativity, Jonah Lehrer, neuroscience and creativity, new media and law, new media and litigation, new media writing, Texaco Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
Truth – According to Artists and Scientists, Part 1
(I continue my riffing on Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer. You will need a Flash enabled WEB browser or mobile device to see the animation below) If something can’t be quantified or calculated, it can’t be true. Our current culture subscribes to a very narrow definition of [...]
February 6, 2011
Tags: art and math, art and neuroscience, art and science, art and truth, Caltech, Caltech TEDx, creativity and neuroscience, Jonah Lehrer, Proust was a Neuroscientist, science and truth Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
New book, but I am still obsessing about the brain, neuroscience and creativity
You know, Einstein didn’t “discover” all his theories through laboratory experimentation. He thought. He used his imagination (what would I see if I rode a light beam?) to conjure them. Didn’t Newton sit under an apple tree and ponder the falling fruit in order to have his gravity brainstorm? Well, truth be told, I don’t [...]
January 9, 2011
Tags: art and science, brain and creativity, Einstein, Jonah Lehrer, Leonardo di Vinci, Max Planck, neuroscience, neuroscience and music, neuroscience and the arts, Newton, Plato, Proust, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Renaissance Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments