Puzzler

Artrivia by Dave Turner

Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher never officially graduated from high school due to failing most of his exams. In 1920, his father enrolled him at the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, Holland, to study architecture. After one week he decided a graphic arts program was best suited to his skills, even though he regularly complained about his lack of natural drawing ability.

The earliest known cave paintings, found in Lascaux, France, dating back nearly 32,000 years, are attributed to Aurignacian artists. One of the techniques for these paintings is now known as stenciling. Pigments were crushed into a powder and mixed with a binder to ensure fluidity and then blown through a hollow reed or directly from the mouth onto the cave wall. These stenciled paintings are, in effect, the very first example of inkjet printing.

In 1995 Disney released the first full-length, all-digital movie, Pixar’s Toy Story. The project required over 800,000 computer hours to render the 114,000 frames in the final cut. Each frame required between two and 13 hours for final processing. There are approximately one trillion, six hundred billion pixels in the film.

Where Are You Now?

Photography by Jerry Atnip

Nashville is full of architectural surprises if you know where to look. Below are six architectural details that can be found around town.

See if you know where they are.