A day out – Dail & Science Gallery (23-04-2010)
We went to the dail today we met outside the dail at around 11, half hour early but we got in thanks to Ronan cause we where planned for 11:30.
When we went to the square Ronan explained how the Dail became what it was,and that the house was donated and not bought(according to the tourguide aswell)and that the 2 side buildings where built on around 1850s and that there isnt a enterance and a exit but there was a country and a city entrance.
When we got in we went for a cup of coffee(or tea what ever floated your boat then) and we got a speech from ronan explaining the the Dail how it became what it was and how the seats where distributed, cant exactly recall, but i think there where a total of 160 seats , 45 where elected by other people with seats and 6 where selected by students from 2 college of dublin I think it was something in that direction.
The building was first a theatre and was donated anad converted into what it is now.
its abeautiful building full of history. has paintings of “famous” politicians at the main lobby and a newspaper that really kinda sticked in my head that underground rebebels where handing out at night.
also had a painting of edward fitzgerald and his wife.
The story of Edward sticked in my mind aswell, the bit about where he was wounded in the war (American vs Great Britian war) when we was sold out and they raided the place where he was hiding,even then he managed to stab one of attackers and shoot another before he got wounded and was saved by a slave that was just send free,The slave carried him for 2 days and kept him alive Edward rewarded them by making him servant, and i`m sure the became more then just a servant and became also a friend the servant served him untill Edward died.
After the tour we had lunch and where off to the science gallery!
we got at the science museum at 2:30 and we where allowed to join group b as ours was at 3
I cant my head around this but here is an explanation of what it is :
HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF:
A WOOLLY WONDER
Created and Curated by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los AngelesOne of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in riotous profusion of colour and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile marvel it now faces devastation, along with reefs around the world. In homage to these disappearing treasures, Australian sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim instigated a project to crochet a handmade reef, a woolly testimony that celebrates also a strange geometry realised throughout the oceanic realm.
In coral reefs we witness an endless whimsical diversity – loopy kelps, fringed anemones, crenellated corals, curlicued sponges. All these forms are variations of a mathematical structure known as hyperbolic space. Though mathematicians had long believed this space was impossible, nature has been playing with its permutations for hundreds of millions of years. In 1997, Dr Daina Taimina of Cornell University realised how to make models of this geometry using the art of crochet. Building on Dr Taimina’s techniques through elaborations of her original crochet code, the Wertheim sisters have spent the past five years developing an ever-evolving taxonomy of reef-life forms.
Tightly bunched mounds of brain coral, wavy strands of kelp, tubeworms, sea slugs and nudibranchs have all been mimicked with the twins’ techniques. Just as the diversity of living species results from variations in an underlying DNA code, so too a huge range of hyperbolic crochet ‘species’ may be brought into being through modifications in the underlying crochet code. There is an ever-evolving crochet ‘tree of life’.
Anyone who takes up these techniques can begin to develop their own woolly species and the Crochet Reef is a communal project. The community of Reef Contributors now spans the globe with participants coming from across the USA, as well as Australia, England, Ireland, Latvia and Japan. Taken as a totality, the project has become an unexpected, global, evolutionary experiment that engages people around the world.
Basically what I got out of it was that if you have straight lines on a plain(say a piece of paper) and say you bend the plain/paper what it would like is that the lines aren`t straight at all but curved and go outwards …. or something like that I really cant figure out what they mean by this, I think its just that straight lines are still straight lines but its just the way and angle you look at it and that it fould be a straight lines
There where a couple of pictures showing these kinda of concepts there “explaining” hyperbolic concept
I found this very intriguing
http://hexdome.com/bridges/
