Enrique Haro´s Blog: 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Pinhole Photography

I recently purchased a brand new build-it-yourself Japanese pinhole photographic camera from the company P-Sharan

http://www.sharan-camera.com/

This is a nice piece of engineering you can buy in most fine art Museums. I purchase mine at the New York Metropolitan Art Museum.

Building it took me a couple of hours.

These are a few of the first pic I took using standard ISO100 and ISO400 film

Be patient for the 2-4 sec exposures. Night pics will require up to 10 minutes...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Cancer vs. Programed Cell Death

It seems that we (all living organisms) live in a very precarious equilibrium between our cells dying in a preprogrammed way (exception when our cells die for other reasons, like disease or accidents) or the same cells going nuts and start reproducing in an uncontrolled manner (thus developing cancer).

This is one of the key takeaways from the chapter #10 of Life Ascending (Death: We die because our cells are preprogrammed to do so.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Ascending-Great-Inventions-Evolution/dp/0393065960

If we tweak the knobs of the preprogrammed cell death, we could generate some problems with rebel cells starting to develop cancer (remember Blade Runner?, when borgs could break free from the preprogrammed death, they started creating problems)

Food for thought. In the mean time, another article to take note of is found in edge.org, and it points that cancer is not a noun but an action. When we have cancer we are really cancering.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis_master10/hillis_master10_index.html

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Darwin Got It Going On.

This is a very interesting story on Rap Music and Evolution Theory from the New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/darwin-got-it-going-on/?emc=eta1

Don´t miss the "Off That (Rationalist Anthem)" video in the following link