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The Committee of Sleep
As I mentioned in class, the Committee of Sleep, is a book discussing "dream incubation" and the various ways of problem solving in your dreams. Some of you might find strong connections to the movie, Inception.
Read this interesting wikipedia article for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_incubation
Step Away From the Phone! - The Luxury of Disconnection
I feel like this is an interesting NYtimes article that is relevant to our discussion on technology today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/fashion/step-away-from-the-phone.html?pagewanted=all
Cracks

"The interstices or gaps between the
tesserae speak their own language in mosaics."
-Terry Tempest Williams, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"

Doors
sorry about the image quality, I've been having a hard time loading my pictures. I'll bring it to class but until then, a description will have to do. As we were walking through the city, I became really enamoured of all of the different doors, so I ended up splicing them together into one big mosaic. I particularly enjoyed the doors that seemed out of place (ie the ones that were in the middle of mosaics), and the disguised doors hidden my their surroundings.
(PS sorry this is so late, the website crashed,, and I didn't get the chance to upload before class this morning)

Mosaic of a Garden
Here is my mosaic; please let me know if it is not visible. Serendipity has been giving me lip when I try to upload photos.

People are part of mosaic
(Last night when I tried to upload the webpage was unavailable.)
People are a part of mosaic.
The background is seeing the magic garden through the gaps in the mosaic wall in front of my eye.
In the center is my reflection in the pieces of mirror on the mosaic wall.
Other three are pictures of people making mosaic more interesting and dynamic.





