A Blog of Bosh

Posted on January 1, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

The Art of Dr. Seuss
Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s first children’s book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” was published in 1937; in the year 2000, nine years after his death, the ageless appeal of his whimsical world is selling seats on Broadway (“Seussical”) and at the movies (“The Grinch”).
Yet most of Geisel’s legacy is on paper: nearly four dozen books and countless sketches, drawings, editorial cartoons and commercial art.
latimes.com

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Self-similar syncopations

Posted on December 31, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Self-similar syncopations:
Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime
[This is an alternative (USA) URL for the same article mentioned below: it is really very interesting!]

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Self-similar syncopation

Posted on December 31, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Self-similar syncopations:

Fibonacci, L-systems, limericks and ragtime There are interesting symmetries shared by the limerick and ragtime, which can be observed and heard in their family groups of stressed and unstressed syllables, or beats, and which lie at the heart of what gives these forms their characteristic structure or ‘feel’. They possess self-similar qualities which are related to fractal models used by contemporary scientists, and can provide a keen insight into some quite profound inter-relationships between the arts and sciences.
[Does this sound abstruse? Well, read the rest!]
+Plus Magazine, issue 10

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Knowsley Safari Park

Posted on December 31, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Knowsley Safari Park
[Knowsley is now a small zoo.]

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Edward Lear in Greece

Posted on December 30, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear in Greece
Edward Lear toured Albania, Epirus, Macedonia and Thessaly in the spring-autumn of 1848. Accompanied by his Greek “Dragoman” -an interepreter who was proficient in ten languages- he explored the unknown and intriguing corners of -what was still then known as- “Turkey in Europe”…

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There Was an Old Man with a Beard

Posted on December 29, 2000 by Marco Graziosi

[minstrels] There Was an Old Man with a Beard — Edward Lear
Lear’s limericks are defined, arrgh, ‘*boring*’: an heresy in an otherwise wonderful site.