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Peter Warshall, Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth

The Long Now Foundation

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)

San Francisco, CA

Peter Warshall, Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of...

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You can get free tickets for this Seminar by becoming a member of The Long Now Foundation at www.longnow.org. General seating.
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Student Tickets
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Event Details

The Long Now Foundation's monthly

 Seminars About Long-term Thinking present

Peter Warshall

Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth


For 3.8 billion years, life has lived in a bath of solar radiance. The Sun’s illumination outlines which objects are appealing, bland, or repellant. Its powers of desiccation, blistering, bleaching, and revelation govern a balance between beauty and danger. Its flood of photons shapes light-harvesters (“eyes”), pigments, and surfaces---stretching planetary aesthetics to include "invisible light" (ultraviolet, infrared, and polarized). From euglena to Matisse, all creatures dwell in a variety of luminance locales---dramas of biospheric brightness, color mixes, and rebellions against darkness (such as fireflies and luminescent fish). The most recent rebellion has been human-devised lamps that impact everything from the artistic-military complex (camouflage and mimicry) to the materials, techniques, and display of paintings, electronic imaging, and growing plants.

This 55-minute journey travels from unicells to octopi to op-art, with a dose of PR for “planetary color webs” and their influence on awareness, desire, self-direction, memory, contemplation, and curiosity.

Armed with a PhD in Biological Anthropology from Harvard, Peter Warshall has shaped watershed theory and practices, conservation biology, relations with Indian tribes in the Southwest, and refugee activities in Africa. For a decade he was the editor of the Whole Earth Review.
 
Links and more info on Peter Warshall at LongNow.org

Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm
at The Cowell Theater in San Francisco

 

If you'd like a pre-Seminar bite, Greens Restaurant has a happy hour from 5-7pm.  We’re also having a reception at the Long Now Museum after the Seminar.
 
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When & Where


Cowell Theater
Pier 2, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)


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