Month: November 2024
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Snoopy
The world knows him as Snoopy, the beloved beagle from Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. In the aviation community, he is better recognized as Snoopy the World War I Flying Ace, one of his most popular alter egos. Sitting atop his doghouse in a flying helmet, goggles, and colorful scarf blowing in the breeze,…
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Summer Days
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe An icon of American modern art, Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for painting surrealism into the desolate American Southwest landscape. These paintings, such as Summer Days, have…
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Diamond Rain
In 1666, Isaac Newton proved that white light is composed of the rainbow spectrum. He used a prism to refract a white light beam into a spectrum of colors, and then another prism to put it back into white light again. Color, however, is perceived inversely. An object soaks up a part of the light…
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Funny Face
“I’d swim the ocean wide just to have you by my side. Though you’re no Queen of Sheba, for worlds I’d not replace your sunny, funny face.” Debuted in 1957, the film Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn, was a parable for her ascending style and stardom. In the film, Jo Stockton, a downtown bohemian bookworm,…
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Best In Show
The American artist and art teacher Josef Albers once proclaimed that if you were to say “red” to 50 different people, there would be 50 different versions of the color. Names for color, in particular, evolve with language across cultures. For example, the word for pink once meant yellow in Dutch. While ochre meant “pale…
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