Ep. 094 Performance Art Meets Science; Enjoying the Pleasures of the Simple Washcloth; Exploring the Mysteries of the Carson Mansion and Ingomar Club

Brainy thing:   16:26          Behind the Redwood Curtain:  28:03

 

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting

Catherine finishes her quadrant dishcloths (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/quadrant-dishcloth)for her dishcloth exchange and even adds a fancy tag.  By Jenny Konopinski quadrant is  free at knitpicks

For little or no discernible  reason, except a whim, Margaret makes Nai Nai’s Favorite Dishcloth (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nai-nais-favorite)  by Ali Crockett and discovers the bias or corner-to-corner structure for the first time — after all these years.   Both of these are on Becky Stewart’s lis of 12 dishcloth knitting patterns.   

https://knitom.com/2016/02/28/dishcloth-knitting-patterns/

Some crocheted diagonal washcloths

Judith Prindle Crocheted Diagonally  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dishcloth-crocheted-diagonally

Bias Crochet Washcloth

Beth Major  knit picks diagnonal cloth good for beginners

https://www.knitpicks.com/patterns/Diagonal_Cloth_Crochet_Pattern__D55803220.html

Lauri Bolland  corner to corner or c2c Dishcloth https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/corner-to-corner-c2c-corner-start-tutorial

 

Brainy Thing:   

When does Performance Art become a science experiment.  Performance artist  marina  Abramovic    (The Artist is Present)   teams up with neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker to create:  Measuring the Magic of the Mutual Gaze;  

http://arhiv.kiblix.org/kiblix2012/softcontrol/?p=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0Tg0IjCp4

Suzanne Dikker  neuroscientist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEcqoqvlxPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9oPo8sLJw

 

Behind the Redwood Curtain:

Margaret explores the mysteries of the Carson Mansion and Ingomar Club.  Photo tour  

http://www.ingomar.org/about/tour-carson-mansion

photo tour

 

 

Art Meets Science with Marina Abramovic and Suzanne Dikker’s Brain Project:  Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze;  Examining the Pleasures of the Dishcloth;  The mysteries of The Carson Mansion and Ingomar Club.  

 

In this episode Of Teaching Your Brain to Knit, we examine the line between art and science in the brain;  We Discover the pleasures of the lowly dishcloth;  and we Explore  the mysteries of the Carson Mansion and the Ingomar Club.  

 

Marina Abramovic,  Suzanne Dikker, Becky Stewart,  Jenny Konopinski

 

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