It is Friday night and I am taking a break to think about the next State of The Material World essay or series of essays. I have been most exited recently to watch several lectures by a recent recipient of the Nobel prize in physics, and at the center of that Nobel prize is a black hole.
Enjoy Andrea Ghez from UCLA, she is so lovely and lively and down to earth. And absolutely brilliant. What is a brilliant person? A brilliant person shines light and shows us the people in the dark how awesome things are in the universe, brilliant people put light in our eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvmOrIhmG8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhozRNE9gE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7HQ_JR5DzA
The most interesting thing is the fact that there's a black hole at the center of our small part of the Universe - this simple fact doesn't change anything for me or how I see the world, it only comes to reinforce my view that the material world is a veil, albeit very compelling.
If you have any doubts on what you do in the world or where you are going and the general confusion of things - refer to the black hole.
And don't worry about me not having fun on Friday night because maybe not this past winter but the winter before I literally lived several lifetimes worth of gallery openings drinking wine with my artist friends in and around Chelsea and sometimes getting blackout drunk so I definitely don't miss alcohol.
Going back to black holes, it really goes back to all my grumbles against handbags because I think handbags are just too little a task for humanity and we spend so much time on handbags and so much resources.
Now from these lectures it wasn't very clear to me if matter shoots out of the black hole or simply streams into it, or both, but I will rewatch the lectures when I have a little more time late next week.
The state of the material world 2 note from a while ago—>> I would walk on 5th avenue and look at all the handbags and then there would be people on 5th avenue carrying handbags in large satchels, they would open the satchels and there will be tons of handbags there. And they will sell them to the people. I really always wondered who makes all these handbags., And who wants these handbags. I really love beautiful things and I have to say I'm quite educated in beautiful things as I've seen the most beautiful and most prized items in the world with my eyes. There's nothing beautiful about handbags, in my opinion they are actually extremely ugly most of them. What prevents a person from simply caring a bag, even a simple plastic bag would do. You can go with a backpack and it's better because it could contain your laptop or other educational devices. Or your sketchbook, I have never in my life seen anyone taking out their sketchbook out of a handbag.
My general feelings is that I want to remove myself to a small village in Spain or wherever with great internet and write draw and paint uninterruptedly.