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Jacob Burton 6/3/17 Desma 9                                                                       Event 3        For my third event, I attended the Design Media Arts MFA Exhibition at the Broad Arts gallery on May 18th. This event was really interesting to me as I was able to see many different and unique pieces of art. The piece of art that I liked the most was the gigantic art piece in the middle of the room. It was a collection of different items that were hanging by strings. The entire object was rotating on a platform. This piece of art was called "Kicker Twister". I was able to seek out the artist which was a gentleman named Lander. When I asked Lander what the meaning was behind this he  first said it means "don't get your kickers in a twist". He then went on to further describe how his purpose of this piece was to symbolize, "making a big deal over little things". He talked about how people often stress over the little things and that som

Jacob Burton 6/3/17 Desma 9                                                                       Blog 9 Space + Art This week I was able to explore through these lectures the final frontier, space. In the first video, it described the powers of 10 and the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. It has always been extremely fascinating to me. I can't even imagine the size and the distance differences between different planets, stars, solar systems, and other space objects. It just goes to show how small we really are in the universe. This video also described how as the powers of 10 increase the farther upward into space we travel. In the first lecture, she described how ancient astronomers named the planets based on greek gods. In the second lecture, she described how contemporary space development started after World War II after the first atomic bomb was tested at a site called Trinity. After this test, and after we dropped two Nucl