To balance out the ultra dry subject matter of my last post, I spent a few minutes having a little fun. I morphed images of two icons who I think, through time and space, are distantly related:
NOTE: this morph was pretty bad, so I removed it indefinitely. I’ll replace it in the future if I can get much better images of Babbitt and Yoda.
Let’s compare: both Milton Babbitt and Yoda are supremely wise and possess an intellect far beyond that of any normal human, both are really old (Babbit is still kicking at 91 and Yoda was an astounding 900 when he passed), both are short, both speak—or compose, in Babbitt’s case—in a way that is unintelligible to normal people, Yoda is a Jedi and Babbitt teaches at Juilliard, and both seem very serious in all of their portraits, but also possess an exquisite, dry sense of humor.
I’m not sure why I think this is funny, but I do. This is all in good fun, of course, as I have the utmost respect for both of these masters.
