Avi Solomon

Earthrise, Christmas 1968

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! I have reprocessed the original 1968 Apollo 8 mission Earthrise Hasselblad Kodak analog film photograph taken by the late Astronaut Bill Anders from the new NASA master scans. Please feel free to download the image file and zoom in to see the astonishing level of detail...

Our Cosmic Situation

NASA Parker Solar Probe footage of Venus and Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way

A Balancing Act On Mars

A remarkable image of a scene on Mars photographed by NASA's Perseverance Rover is emblematic of the alien yet familiar landscape of a barren planet humans might visit one day.

Book of Creativity: Audio

Audio version of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. Important not just for having a creative effect on major historical figures, but also for a seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing into the looming Golem of AI today.

Book of Creativity: TEXT

This is the draft of my forthcoming translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. The English version is turning out to be a stand-alone text that can be read aloud as poetry. Please feel free to read, recite, record, recommend and send me reverbs!

Book of Creativity : Introduction

This PDF is my raw longhand introduction to my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text important not just for its internal creative effect on major medieval Jewish mystics like Abraham Abulafia, but also for its seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing with the looming Golem of AI in view.

This photo of Earth was taken by a Human

On the way home from the Moon in August 1971, Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera and captured this astonishing prospect of a crescent Earth gleaming in a ray of sunlight.

Book of Creativity

My work-in-progress English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. Important not just for having a creative effect on major historical figures, but also for a seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing into the looming Golem of AI today.