Comments on: Tales From The Industry, V http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Really Excellent - Asymptotia http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-303301 Really Excellent - Asymptotia Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:30:27 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-303301 [...] the playwright Oliver Mayer - ideas sparked there too, just because we got on the same page. And we wrote a play. So we shall [...] [...] the playwright Oliver Mayer - ideas sparked there too, just because we got on the same page. And we wrote a play. So we shall [...]

]]> By: Work on the Play Day - Asymptotia http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-168195 Work on the Play Day - Asymptotia Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:19:45 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-168195 [...] Yes, today is work-on-the-play day and it will be very interesting, since you’ve not looked at the thing for a long time due to other commitments. Certainly not since it was read by real actors with real people in the audience at the Pasadena Playhouse during the Summer, although you could not attend, due to being out of town. You wonder if it was as fun as the other public reading, and whether readings will ever be as magical to you as that first private one. [...] [...] Yes, today is work-on-the-play day and it will be very interesting, since you’ve not looked at the thing for a long time due to other commitments. Certainly not since it was read by real actors with real people in the audience at the Pasadena Playhouse during the Summer, although you could not attend, due to being out of town. You wonder if it was as fun as the other public reading, and whether readings will ever be as magical to you as that first private one. [...]

]]> By: At The Other Monastery | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-106138 At The Other Monastery | Cosmic Variance Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:13:31 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-106138 [...] P.S. There’ll be two more public readings of that play (in progress) I’m writing with Oliver Mayer on Tuesday and Wednesday, in the greater Los Angeles area. If interested in going, please email me for more details. See here and here for earlier reading descriptions. We’ve got two new actors for two of the parts….. and yes -I can’t believe it either- once again, you’ll know them as having played shadowy evil characters from the show 24! I’m sure this is all a coincidence that it keeps happening. [...] [...] P.S. There’ll be two more public readings of that play (in progress) I’m writing with Oliver Mayer on Tuesday and Wednesday, in the greater Los Angeles area. If interested in going, please email me for more details. See here and here for earlier reading descriptions. We’ve got two new actors for two of the parts….. and yes -I can’t believe it either- once again, you’ll know them as having played shadowy evil characters from the show 24! I’m sure this is all a coincidence that it keeps happening. [...]

]]> By: Tales From the Industry, VII | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-22625 Tales From the Industry, VII | Cosmic Variance Thu, 18 May 2006 07:38:05 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-22625 [...] Recall also that I’ve been working with a playwright, Oliver Mayer, for all those reasons I keep blogging about concerning science and the public, science outreach, science education, science and the media, etc, etc. I’ve been telling you, for example, about the wonderful process of having real actors read your words, and how interesting and instructive the whole experience is. See posts here, and here. [...] [...] Recall also that I’ve been working with a playwright, Oliver Mayer, for all those reasons I keep blogging about concerning science and the public, science outreach, science education, science and the media, etc, etc. I’ve been telling you, for example, about the wonderful process of having real actors read your words, and how interesting and instructive the whole experience is. See posts here, and here. [...]

]]> By: Really Excellent | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-21094 Really Excellent | Cosmic Variance Wed, 03 May 2006 06:28:04 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-21094 [...] I had a great time talking to Aimee afterwards, and we were both intrigued by the possibility of maybe collaborating on something in the future, as we are both at USC with interests in crossing the borders between disciplines. I have no idea what we might create, but I can sense the possibility of promising ideas taking shape just because we are on the same wavelength on a number of things. Like happened when I started chatting with my colleague the playwright Oliver Mayer - ideas sparked there too, just because we got on the same page. And we wrote a play. So we shall see. [...] [...] I had a great time talking to Aimee afterwards, and we were both intrigued by the possibility of maybe collaborating on something in the future, as we are both at USC with interests in crossing the borders between disciplines. I have no idea what we might create, but I can sense the possibility of promising ideas taking shape just because we are on the same wavelength on a number of things. Like happened when I started chatting with my colleague the playwright Oliver Mayer - ideas sparked there too, just because we got on the same page. And we wrote a play. So we shall see. [...]

]]> By: Tales From The Industry, VI | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-18912 Tales From The Industry, VI | Cosmic Variance Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:14:23 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-18912 [...] Anyway, some students took on the challenge. They are required to seek out a real scientist, and get them to read the work and comment. Well, they found me. (I guess there were no real scientists willing to do this, so a string theorist will have to do. LOL!) Well, I did this with one student last year, and it turned into a really fun and informative series of conversations where we both learned a lot. Me about the process and contraints involved in writing for the entertainment industry, and the student about what science and scientists are like. I’ve also spoken about this sort of thing in the context of the (later) playwriting project I got involved in later last last year, about which I’ve blogged here and here, and will tell you more later. [...] [...] Anyway, some students took on the challenge. They are required to seek out a real scientist, and get them to read the work and comment. Well, they found me. (I guess there were no real scientists willing to do this, so a string theorist will have to do. LOL!) Well, I did this with one student last year, and it turned into a really fun and informative series of conversations where we both learned a lot. Me about the process and contraints involved in writing for the entertainment industry, and the student about what science and scientists are like. I’ve also spoken about this sort of thing in the context of the (later) playwriting project I got involved in later last last year, about which I’ve blogged here and here, and will tell you more later. [...]

]]> By: Friday Night Tasty Fun | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-16311 Friday Night Tasty Fun | Cosmic Variance Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:31:27 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-16311 [...] So for the first time ever, I stepped into our fancy new Molecular Biology building. I was expecting to be accosted by security the moment I walked in, because, I don’t really expect that they’d let us poor theoretical physicists walk around in such splendid surroundings! Luckily, the first person I saw as I walked in was Mike Waterman (he who helped host the reading of our play last month), whose Computational Biology group is now also in this building. So all was ok. [...] [...] So for the first time ever, I stepped into our fancy new Molecular Biology building. I was expecting to be accosted by security the moment I walked in, because, I don’t really expect that they’d let us poor theoretical physicists walk around in such splendid surroundings! Luckily, the first person I saw as I walked in was Mike Waterman (he who helped host the reading of our play last month), whose Computational Biology group is now also in this building. So all was ok. [...]

]]> By: We Have Agents In The Field | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-16027 We Have Agents In The Field | Cosmic Variance Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:25:29 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-16027 [...] I like the idea of this. Recall my oft-repeated-on-this-blog quest for better public understanding of science, and more familiarity with scientists and science on the part of the “person on the street” (as a means to the former) (see e.g., here and here). Well, the idea that there’s a secret underground of scientists infiltrating various jobs that we’re not expected to occupy is an excellent one! (Will work it into that novel/screenplay/whatever that I’ll try to get around to writing one day.) [...] [...] I like the idea of this. Recall my oft-repeated-on-this-blog quest for better public understanding of science, and more familiarity with scientists and science on the part of the “person on the street” (as a means to the former) (see e.g., here and here). Well, the idea that there’s a secret underground of scientists infiltrating various jobs that we’re not expected to occupy is an excellent one! (Will work it into that novel/screenplay/whatever that I’ll try to get around to writing one day.) [...]

]]> By: Plato http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14877 Plato Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:39:36 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14877 Maybe you could inlcude the discovery of a "<a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2006/03/z-machine.html" rel="nofollow">new energy producing machine</a>" in your play that has a "new mathematics" attached to it. I mean it's fictional, in that our expectation of the future, might we have discovered a cyclical process that we had tapped into? Another story maybe? Just a thought. :) Maybe you could inlcude the discovery of a “new energy producing machine” in your play that has a “new mathematics” attached to it.

I mean it’s fictional, in that our expectation of the future, might we have discovered a cyclical process that we had tapped into? Another story maybe?

Just a thought. :)

]]> By: Quibbler http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14869 Quibbler Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:01:20 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14869 Wow. Just wow. --Q. Wow. Just wow.

–Q.

]]> By: Kristin http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14863 Kristin Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:30:14 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14863 Richard Powers has blended music and science in a couple of his novels, <i>The Gold Bug Variations</i> and <i>The Time of Our Singing</i>. Of course, he's scarcely explored every angle of the relationship...there's plenty of room for more stories. Richard Powers has blended music and science in a couple of his novels, The Gold Bug Variations and The Time of Our Singing. Of course, he’s scarcely explored every angle of the relationship…there’s plenty of room for more stories.

]]> By: Elliot http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14859 Elliot Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:54:59 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14859 I find it extremely natural to do so. I just think it is interesting that you came to the same conclusion. I think there are many similarities not only in the professional approaches that musicians/scientists take but in the aesthetics around what is good or not good science/music. A topic with many potential tangents. Elliot I find it extremely natural to do so. I just think it is interesting that you came to the same conclusion. I think there are many similarities not only in the professional approaches that musicians/scientists take but in the aesthetics around what is good or not good science/music. A topic with many potential tangents.

Elliot

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14858 Clifford Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:12:31 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14858 Supernova: - Wow! Maybe *that's* why he seems so familiar to me..... That's funny. You're right.... that show did have some surprisingly good aspects (despite being a Star Trek show).... and that character was indeed one of them. He was a favourite of mine.... I'll update the post... Elliot:- How so? I find it very natural to do so..... do you? -cvj Supernova: - Wow! Maybe *that’s* why he seems so familiar to me….. That’s funny. You’re right…. that show did have some surprisingly good aspects (despite being a Star Trek show)…. and that character was indeed one of them. He was a favourite of mine….

I’ll update the post…

Elliot:- How so? I find it very natural to do so….. do you?

-cvj

]]> By: Elliot http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14857 Elliot Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:02:47 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14857 I find it interesting that you mixed science and music. I find it interesting that you mixed science and music.

]]> By: Supernova http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14852 Supernova Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:29:06 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14852 Cool project, Clifford -- I love seeing scientists involved in interdisciplinary projects like this. Hey, your director played Garak on Deep Space Nine! I always thought he was one of the best things about that show (which had many good things about it). Cool project, Clifford — I love seeing scientists involved in interdisciplinary projects like this.

Hey, your director played Garak on Deep Space Nine! I always thought he was one of the best things about that show (which had many good things about it).

]]> By: Clifford http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14848 Clifford Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:15:14 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14848 Dark Matters. -cvj Dark Matters.

-cvj

]]> By: Kristin http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/03/09/tales-from-the-industry-v/#comment-14847 Kristin Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:47:04 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=689#comment-14847 This is all very tantalizing. Do you have a working title for the play? Just nosy.... This is all very tantalizing. Do you have a working title for the play? Just nosy….

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