{"id":186,"date":"2008-07-22T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-07-22T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:37:27","slug":"alexander-calders-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Calder&#8217;s jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Calder\">Alexander<\/a> Calder&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artcyclopedia.com\/artists\/calder_alexander.html\">work<\/a>, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/cgi-bin\/pimage?56253+0+0\">mobiles<\/a>. The grace and the balance with which those red and black pieces of steel were assembled makes them a pleasure to watch. The mobiles especially hit that intriguing interface between art and mathematics and science.<\/p>\n<p>NPR this morning had an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=92736081\">Calder&#8217;s jewelry<\/a> in honor of the 110th anniversary of his birth. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/exhibitions\/309.html\">exhibit<\/a> of these works right now, with unfortunately few photographs. There is an associated book though:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=phialasstring-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0300134282&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually put in the full Amazon stuff, just the text link, but I really like the cover on this one.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Calder&#8217;s birthday, here are a couple more fun sites: directions for making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Create-a-Calder-Mobile\">Calder mobile of your own<\/a>, and a Java applet that lets you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathcats.com\/explore\/virtual\/mobile.html\">do the same thing<\/a> (virtually) without all the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Alexander Calder&#8217;s work, especially the mobiles. The grace and the balance with which those red and black pieces of steel were assembled makes them a pleasure to watch. The mobiles especially hit that intriguing interface between art and mathematics and science. NPR this morning had an article on Calder&#8217;s jewelry in honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-people-doing-cool-things","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}