Baraka Beckett DESMA9

For my third event I attended the Boelter hall 3420, which is generally considered to be the birthplace  of the internet. This is incredible fascinating to me because of the impact that the internet has had on my life and the lives of everybody in the whole world. Its even crazier that this place that has effected the lives of people around the entire world is located at the college that I am attending and I can just walk there whenever. Going to this room positively effected me in more ways then I could have ever anticipated. When I first looked at the room it was hard to believe that the very internet that I am writing this blog on came from this inconspicuous looking room at UCLA in 1969. This got me to consider how recently the internet was invited and the possible of things out their that are still left to invent. Going to this room also made me think about the internet more, and it made me view the internet as a work of art. All of the different websites an...

Of all of the topics that we have gone over in this class I am least surprised with space's connection with art. I have fond my memories of my self as a child looking up into the stars and being quite simply amazed by the beauty of space. The black acts as a sort of canvas while each star and planets acts as its own individual piece of art. Often when I consider the beauty of space it then leads me to the question of why is the universe beautiful in the first place. Quite simply scientists do not have a specific answer as to why the universe is set up in a manner that is ecstatically pleasing. These leads me to consider the influence of a possible higher power. This idea is most easily viewed in arts relationship with space, because of how limitless and impossible the universe is as a concept. This then leads me to consider a higher power. Unfortunately as of right now there is not definitive proof that a higher power exists h...