A client of mine wanted me to sketch out his World of Warcraft troll... so I did. Creatures with bizarre anatomy and facial structures are so entertaining to "work with," especially when the original reference images have a low poly-count so I get to take all sorts of artistic liberties with their design while still sticking to the accepted aesthetic for the species.
"Are you feeling it NOW, Mr. Krabs??"
(pictured above: not my client's actual troll)
Anyhow, onto homework:
The Arrow Of Time
Carroll's argument in "The Arrow Of Time" is more observation and almost... puzzlement. He talks about how the laws of physics are often so repetitive, circular. Give things enough time, and they will repeat themselves. Pendulums taking the same amount of time to rotate no matter how wide the swing is, historical events... many laws of physics all seem so reversible. And yet, most things are not, in fact, reversible. Entropy takes place, things inevitable get more and more chaotic. The universe is ever-expanding and will never return to its pre-Big-Bang state, a cake will not return to flour and sugar, and all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again (hah!). So, while many physics laws, while so unbreakable and rigid, are often "circular," time and its irreversibility seems to be linear. Events repeat, but the same event can not reverse itself. The origin of the universe is relevant to our everyday lives because its creation follows the same laws that are in effect today. If we learn about the universe around us now, we can learn about the universe at its birth. If we can find out new information about the universe at its conception, we find out more about the world around us today and the laws it abides by.
Two aspects of time are repetition and change. Change is more to do with the topic of The Arrow Of Time, and repetition can be observed and used to measure time. Change is an egg breaking, or billiards balls being set up then broken. Repitition is the change of months, seasons, years, in a set stone pattern.
The Quick And The Dead
A piece I enjoy from the "Quick And The Dead" exhibit would be Rovesciare i propri occhi by Guiseppe Penone. The artist put on a performance piece where he wore mirrored contact lenses. In the picture shown, the artist becomes a rather unsettling figure. Most humans value and treasure eye contact instinctively, as a means of intimacy as well to gauge intent or danger. When they are hidden from view, they are automatically judged suspicious and to be avoided. But when they aren't strictly hidden, and instead are mirrored, it is another matter entirely. Unnerving, yes, but the light that shines off the contact lenses gives off a glow, almost ethereal in appearance; otherworldly. It's as if, while that person is physically standing in front of the viewer, their mind/self is somewhere else, existing in a place outside of time itself.
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