Friday, May 11, 2012

Escher's World

Dutch artist M.C. Escher drew things that were visual infinite loops, like 1948's Drawing Hands, in which one disembodied hand was drawing another, which was actually drawing the first one. The 1953 piece Relativity shows stairways with perspectives that transformed them from being directed one way into being directed a different way.

In 1991, the band Chagall Guevara released the song, "Escher's World," a topsy-turvy place where "socks hop, lemons drop, butter flies," among other things.

And now, the General Accounting Office of the United States government has been directed to study a Pentagon study. Not weird, not news...except that the Pentagon study under study is itself a study to find out why the Pentagon had so many studies done and how it could reduce their number.

Were he still with is, I think that little piece of information just might cause Mr. Escher to lay down his pencils and paper and take up a career doing Thomas Kinkade knockoffs.

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