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Kim Fulton-Bennett: Boulder Creek Library
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Kim Fulton-Bennett is a man of many talents, marine biologist, science writer, composer and performer in several musical genres, primary traditional Celtic music where for several years he was half of the Dobhran ("otter" in Gaelic) duo with August O'Connor which entertained at coffee shops, festivals, weddings and private parties in the Santa Cruz area. More recently he performed with Blarney, a larger Celtic band. Inspired by his work at MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) he is currently authoring a website Seasons in the Sea which recounts the life stories month by month of conspicuous plants and animals living in and around Monterey Bay. Inspired by his contact with nature through marine bio;ogy, through hiking in the California wilderness and by surfing off the coast of Santa Cruz, Kim has been producing a series of woodblock prints some of which are now on display (Sept--Oct 2023) at the Boulder Creek branch of the Santa Cruz Library.
"I live in the redwood-covered hills behind Santa Cruz," writes Kim, "and spend my free time hiking the mountains and surfing along the wild North Coast. That's where I get the inspiration for most of my wookblock prints."
"My first woodblocks were simple designs for friends and relatives. But I soon fell in love with the magical process of carving a design into a block of wood, inking the block, and then seeing the design on a piece of paper."
"I carve my woodblocks by hand and make prints in small editions of 5 to 15 prints. Each print is signed, numbered, and dated. Because they are hand made, each print is unique."
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Rockview: Moonlight
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What a talent and inspiring work. Mjmullin
ReplyDeleteMore of Kim's prints can be found on Etsy:
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Enjoy
Nick Herbert
Wow, those are really great! I have a picture I just took the other day on Medium, maybe Kim would like to make a woodblock print of it? An Amanita Muscaria fairy circle I found on the Willamette River, right after taking a bath in said river.
ReplyDeletehttps://medium.com/@miserablemiracle/fly-agaric-29dd8187ed80
I went back there this morning and there were probably 15 capped mushrooms there. The big one in that photo had collapsed and was almost completely deteriorated. I'm sitting in the library right now with two huge caps, each one between 8" and 10" in diameter, in a bag. I have the stems too, of course, but those are to be discarded. I wasn't going to bother the little fairy circle, but there were just so many of them, I decided taking two wouldn't have much of an impact.
Saturday I went to the farmer's market and bought a 10 square block of psilocybin-infused chocolate. I ate three squares, or about 3 grams, and it was really nice. This morning I did yoga next to a giant whale and then took another bath in the river. It's getting cold.
If you follow that link, there's a hyperlink on the Amanita Muscaria that takes you to this interesting paper; I'll just link to it here in the event you don't wish to follow the above link. My Medium articles are lucky to get one, maybe two, views.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/1/3/69/htm
That's about the Amanita Muscaria.
Even though it's cold, I'm much happier here in the mountains. Ten years I spent in Los Angeles, can you believe it? I had things set up there pretty decently, so I stayed. But then I figured out what I wanted to figure out, the physics I mean, and then I posted my story on Medium with a picture of the tar-paper shack I was living in. My shack was nestled up against a 200+ year old pine tree and they came without warning and destroyed everything, even cutting down the tree. So, I packed a few things, wandered the California coast a bit, and then just kept going north. I'm still going . . .
I'm terribly sorry you lost your friend August, Nick. I thought about stopping to see you when I passed through, but I decided not to because you had just lost your good friend.
ReplyDeleteTell Kim, your woodblock friend, I have a novel design for a surge generator for reef aquaria if he would like to make a fortune. I met this guy Fred at the Buddhist temple Sunday and he has a friend Charlie who is a retired hydraulic engineer. I would like to model my surge generator in order to determine the optimal geometry.
Have you read this paper by Kevin Knuth and John Skilling?
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9984/3/1/9
It goes with this one on the arxiv:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05395.pdf
Some time ago, Ulf Klein showed mathematically that the limit \hbar \to 0 of quantum mechanics is NOT classical mechanics but a probabilistic classical mechanics he calls Probabilistic Hamilton Jacobi theory:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0150
He then goes on to derive quantum theory from a completely general probabilistic theory of classical mechanics he calls Hamilton-Louiville-Lie-Kolmogorov theory with a projection from phase space to configuration space:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08513
And, further, using momentum fields, for spin 1/2 particles:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13364
Okay, I'd been following this Quantitative Geometric Thermodynamics of Michael Parker and Chris Jeynes for some time and they were trying to unify kinematics and thermodynamics using something they call complex time, but it depends on the Bohe Correspondence. I told them they can't do that, due to Klein's work. I ended up getting into this long debate with Jeynes, but their own work runs counter to it. Kevin Knuth assumes Zitterwebegung and develops a Shannon entropy for fermions:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.1854.pdf
The Parker/Jeynes geometric entropy is consistent with that, and if you assume zitter, then the reason the Bohr Correspondence doesn't hold except for three special potentials is because as \hbar \to 0, the translational velocity of the particle goes to c. The Shannon entropy goes to zero because there is no longer no zitter. Spacetime is an inherently dissipative domain. But I don't think "spacetime" exists as in independent entity. You know
v_wv_g = c^2 implies 1/v_w(v_w - v_g) = 1 - (v_p)^2/c^2
the square of the Lorentz transform is there in the de Broglie velocities and it is intimately related to the relativistic Shannon entropy. Read Del Rajan's PhD thesis, the last part, the speculative part:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05969
I figure if I can somehow air dry both of those big caps here in the library and then eat both of them at the same time, maybe I can figure it all out . . . of course, I'll probably have to write up my report in prison, or the mental hospital, and everyone will dismiss my insights as the ravings of a lunatic. You know, I'm learning all about connections and manifolds and tangent spaces and wa, wa, wa, and I sometimes wonder why or if it is at all necessary.
I hope you are doing well, Nick, aka Dr. Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq.