Tag: Fountain

To my mind, there are few works of art that have had such a distinct and emphatic influence on the course of art than Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, made in 1917. Fountain is a porcelain urinal. There is little else to say about it. It’s a urinal. Except that, in April 1917, Duc...

The fountain’s first basic structure was built in Ancient Roman times in 19 BC, at the end of the aqueduct, at the meeting place of three separate roads. This is where the name Trevi Fountain came from, derived from the Latin word trivium, meaning three streets. It was built as a water source ...

In the four-dimensional space-time continuum, it makes sense that the Fountain of Youth must be far away. Can you even get there from here (no matter where “here” is)? There are no roads. Or at least, as Google Maps politely informs you: Sorry, we could not calculate driving dire...

I bought this pen almost out of solidarity for a “new to me” pen store I discovered in Perth. I visited the store on a quick getaway holiday towards the end of 2021, amidst the COVID madness. We were lucky we didn’t get caught in any COVID complexities and I was personall...

If a chain in a beaker, initially at rest, is pulled over and out of the beaker, the chain will continue to flow out of the beaker in a ”self-siphoning” action. Furthermore, the chain will also rise above the beaker’s rim, forming a ”chain fountain,” where the chain rea...

Change How You Age For centuries, people have been concerned about gaining. We are always searching for the next “fountain of youth” or a new way to reverse aging. Many things cause our skin to age. Some things we cannot do anything about; others we can influence. Natural...