Meaningfulness Once Again Rears Its Head
Charles Conley Charles Conley

Meaningfulness Once Again Rears Its Head

It’s about the middle of the gestation period of the lecture I’m working on, and it’s the middle of the month. I’m behind on some aspects, ahead on others, and figure it all averages out to being just about on schedule. I had thought that this one would go long and turn into a third “Simple Machine Underwater” lecture, but that didn’t turn out to happen. And so my thoughts naturally turn toward the next lecture.

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Back to Class
Charles Conley Charles Conley

Back to Class

It’s just a couple of weeks short of the six-month anniversary of… well, of my classes going online, and my last haircut, and the last time I went into a grocery store, and a bunch of other things. And today I’m going back into a classroom for the first time since then to teach. But that’s not exactly what I want to talk about.

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In Search of an Image
Charles Conley Charles Conley

In Search of an Image

The search for images for this month’s Corona Lecture found me up before dawn to photograph pieces of paper in the Mississippi and out in a rainstorm taking pictures of those same pieces of paper floating down my driveway.

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Acknowledging one’s sources part I
Charles Conley Charles Conley

Acknowledging one’s sources part I

I’ve alluded to this story and also linked to this video before, but with my first blog post I wanted to highlight my debt to William Kentridge for his Six Drawing Lessons. 

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