SAT 22 DEC: One early summerday I was asked to suggest a symbol for the Northwest quarter of Copenhagen. It took many months, 3 versions, and countless variants, before all pieces fitted the puzzle. As far as I recall the first deadline was early august, but now - finally finished:



The symbols refer to 'bishop' and hill', together "Bispebjerg" (=Bishops Hill).
And also to "Grundvigs Church", frontview.

FRI 21 DEC: Does anyone ever read the TOS?
Never wondered what their Terms Of Service actually were.?
Or did you just accept it, click, without ever glancing at the words..?

Today I stumbled upon this site, scroogeyourself.com, and decided to read at least some of the text, before accepting. And here is a minor part of that, 3 sentences:

Grants of rights: By submitting a photograph or any other materials or information to the Web Site (including, without limitation, your name, picture, likeness, voice or biographical information, vocal messages, text messages or text) (each a "Submission"), you hereby grant to the Company, it's subdiaries and affiliated companies and each of their respective licensees, successors and assigns (collectively, the "OfficeMax Enties"), the unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right and license to to use, host, cache, store, copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, reformat, translate or otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever your Submission throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in any manner or venue and for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, promotion or trade in promoting and publizizing Company and its products and services, by means of any and all medie and devices whether now known or hereafter deviced, which includes, without limitation, the unlimited right and permission to post the Submission on this Web Site.

The OfficeMax Entities shall have the right, in their sole discretion, to edit, composite, morph, scan, duplicate, or alter your Submission in any manner for any purpose the OfficeMax Entities deem neccesary or desirable (each, a Modification), and you irrevocable waive any moral rights you may have in your Submission even if a Modification is not acceptable to you.

You agree that you have no right of approval, no claim to compensation, and no claim (including, without limitation, claims based upon invasion of privacy, defamation or right of publicity) arising out of any use or Modification of your Submission, including, without limitation, any blurring, alteration, editing, morphing, distortion, illusionary effect, faulty reproduction, fictionalization or use in any composite form.

Translated from legalese to english:

If you submit anything, you give it to the Company.

What rights do you have? None. By submitting you granted the Company all 'rights and licenses'. They can now copy, alter, modify or "otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever your Submission".

How long will this last? Forever, as "in perpetuity". Your rights are 'irrevocably' lost.

How wide, even global? Indeed, it's worldwide and "throughout the universe".

Can you regret? Don't even think about it: "you irrevocable waive any moral rights you may have in your Submission even if a Modification is not acceptable to you."

Compensation possible? You have "no claim to compensation, and no claim (including, without limitation, claims based upon invasion of privacy, defamation)."

Is this a joke, or just normal legalese?
I'm not sure, but make up your own mind,
before you visit scroogeyourself.com

TUE 4 DEC: Here's some interesting artistic news from Scientific American:

Japanese artists Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima have used superparamagnetic nanoparticles to create an alien but beautiful sculpture "Morpho Towers, an artwork using ferrofluids controlled by magnetic fields. Or in their own description as "an autonomous transformation of the material itself: sometimes it seems like a horn, sometimes a fir tree, and sometimes even like the Tower of Babel."

Here's the artist own description: "Morpho Towers - Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral. The body of the tower was made by a new technique called “ferrofluid sculpture” that enables artists to create dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. This technique uses one electromagnet, and its iron core is extended and sculpted. The ferrofluid covers the sculpted surface of a three-dimensional iron shape that was made on an electronic NC lathe. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of the electromagnet. The shape of the iron body is designed as helical so that the fluid can move to the top of the helical tower when the magnetic field is strong enough." www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/spiral/