Ah, hello...

...despite my attempts to make my journal entries more regularly...well, I guess you could say it was a total failure
Also, at the moment it seems like my account was a bit dead. It certainly isn't, but old journals, no new artworks...well, one could easily believe it was.


My excuse?
Aaah, well. Lots of tons of stuff going on...

University - very time consuming. I knew it would be an intensive semester and, well, it sure is. But I can tell you: it's also quite an interesting one.
Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem is even more fascinating than I thought. The proof is...well, I'd say the work of a genius. In fact you can say that the main idea is the following: given a language in which you can speak about natural numbers, construct a formula that is stating the following: "I can not be proved."
So, if the formula is false, it can be proved but this is impossible since things that you find a proof for are always true. Hence, it must be true - and you have found a formula that is true but for which you can not find a proof. Your system is incomplete.
(Anyone familiar with maths will know that this concept is way too simple...and not correct, as it is written here. But it should do to explain the main concept...)
Amazing, isn't it!
Ah, yes, but that is only one of the cool things we do...I'm getting a bit into the philosophy of maths, in a lecture about Constructivism in maths...quite an awkward way to do mathematics, but nevertheless I think one can learn a lot from it.
Recently there was also a mathematical conference in vienna, in which the winners of the Kurt Goedel fellowships presented their research plans (in topics like logic, settheory and their applications). Utterly interesting. Sadly it's hard to talk about that since it really needs some basic knowledge of concepts...but I was really impressed and fascinated. It's not only about the math, it's about...man's logic. I have a feeling that this is about the very foundations of reason. Holy cow...

But besides that...
Actually there are only a few "spectacular" things happening but many "little" ones. Which are nevertheless nice. Would be boring without them
(What am I talking about? Well, going to the cinema [oh, spectacular! "The counterfeiters", an austrian movie that won an Oscar Award this year. It certainly was deserved, as it is an excellent movie with a difficult theme...food for thought], playing Mahjong (really need to play it more), going to a book fair, doing other stuff...really interesting as you see, but I guess that's life. Maybe not like in the movies, with explosions, heroes and beautiful women around every corner but still - I don't want to be in the movies anyway )

(Remember the Lord of the Rings concert? Well, I was a bit disappointed this time, last year it was way better, if you ask me...no real emotions this time. Bah. No inspiration...)


Also, I'm almost finished with a new piece, finally. Although, it is really not very awesome, as you'll see. It's one of those pieces that don't turn out as good as the should. Nevertheless, you'll see it in a few days. As a proof that I'm still around
It was also another one of those training pieces in which I tried to discover new techniques and stuff. I wanted to work with Indigo again, this time a bit more serious. It's quite a nice rendering engine but I'm not sure if I got the hang of it already. Need to experiment more.


"11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
(From the movie Pi. Quite interesting one with an amazing soundtrack by Clint Mansell. Really trippy. And although I don't believe that the above statement is absolutely correct, it's still a cool one and since it was 11:15 p.m. when I wrote this...must be a coincidence )