A view of Kyoto City from the building of JR Kyoto Station,
where I saw Maurice Utrillo Exhibition.
昨日、京都市美術館へ、友人が出品している新象展を見に行き、帰途、モーリス・ユトリロ展も見た。ユトリロの描いた街の絵の多くは、写真や絵はがきを参考にしていたと知った。私もそのような方法で水彩画を描いているので、親しみを覚えた。しかし、注意深く観察すると、中には遠近法において、幾何学的に不正確な（一階と二階の狭まり方の比率が異なる）ところのあるものも見受けられた。芸術は科学的でなくてもよいのだろうが…。［英語版はもっと詳しい（とくに前半）。］
Yesterday morning, I went to Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art to see Shinsho Exhibition, in which a friend of mine, Saiko Yoshihara, presented an abstract painting. Yoshigoro Mizutani, one of common friends of Saiko and me, also came to see the exhibition from Takatsuki. Saiko's artwork is always composed of circles and curves in different colors and entitled "Dairen (Dalian; her birth place) something." This time, the title was "Dairen–焔–2010" (焔 means flame), and the tone of colors, including black and red, was darker than her earlier works, which gave us warm impressions with light tones. The old city of Dalian in her memory is now burning into flame. What comes next? Is it ash?
The three of us talked for a while at the coffee shop in front of the museum. Saiko recommended us to see Maurice Utrillo Exhibition at Museum "Eki" Kyoto. Therefore, Yoshigoro and I came to JR Kyoto Station together, but he said that he would like to see Utrillo Exhibition without having lunch. I was unbearable to do so, and the result was that we saw the exhibition separately (this is what male friends sometimes do).
From Utrillo Exhibition, I learned that Utrillo painted many of his works of streets on the basis of photos and picture cards. I'm using a similar method in watercolor painting! There were about 90 works of Utrillo including those painted with gouache (nontransparent kind of watercolor), so that I had much to learn there. Looking at carefully his works, however, I found that some of those have the perspective geometrically inaccurate (the ratios of diminishing of the heights of the lower and the upper floors are not the same). I know that arts and science are different but ...
From tweets of September 17 and 18, 2010 (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)
About Arts
"And the winner is . . ." physicsworld, blog —"US photographer Tom Lowe won the 2010 astronomy photographer of the year award."
About Astrophysics
"Map of moon's craters reveals its cataclysmic past," Guardian (September 17, 2010). —"Scientists used instruments aboard Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to scan the surface of the moon for impact craters measuring at least 20 km wide."
About Biology
"The ecological significance of tool use in New Caledonian crows," Science; Supplementary material "Clever crows," ibid., Video Portal. —The clever crows get very nutritional food.
About Mathematics
[Retweet of pickover's words] "Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit."
About Peace and Politics
伸びていますね。皆さん、もっともっと協力しましょう！ [Retweet of hutenma1's words] http://jimorikouken.web.fc2.com/普天間基地撤去を求める高校生の会：現在、署名3443筆 (Retweeted by behamah and DugongDugongDug)
About Physicists
[Retweet of ProfBrianCox's words] [ProfBrianCox has] a show on Richard Feynman on Saturday evening on radio4. robinince wrote a nice introduction to him.
About Physics
"Searching the Sun for dark matter," physicsworld News (September 10, 2010). —"Interesting but more information needed to make a detailed critique."
"First observation of a macroscopic quantum jump," Tech Rev, arXiv blog (September 17, 2010). —Possible applications for quantum computing etc. (Retweeted by charmqgp)
About Science
"Evolution of national Nobel Prize shares in the 20th century," arXiv.org, arXiv:1009.2634v1 [physics.hist-ph]. —Graphs show century's migration patterns (brain drains and gains) in the sciences and other fields. (Retweeted by fermin771009)
Exchange of Words with Friends
[chiamai's words] Amazing astro-pics (via tttabata)! Winners: Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Exhibitions. —Visit the museum: NMM.
[To chiamai] Hi, Thanks for your retweets. Began to post sketches and photos of Kanazawa on my blog but may be slow, because it's a season busy for going out.
[From chiamai] The astro pics are incredible! I'll check your blog. I have posted a few pics of what I see when opening my window.
[To chiamai] Oh, your photos clearly show that Grenoble is a wonderful place!
[From chiamai] Thanks! My pics are a bit mono-thematic, but the reason why I chose this view is that it is close to the flat and that I like the idea of documenting its evolution. [Rewritten by T.T. with some guesses]
