Inked

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"Say what?" you may be asking yourself.

In the recent RockOm interview "Futureman, Pythagorean Societies and the Big Orgasm", drummer and composer Futureman spoke of how the Golden Ratio is the basis for the bass and treble clefs:

Spiritual has to do with spirals. Spiraling. Spinning. What goes around comes around. You look at the bass clef, it's the same shape as your ear. It's the same shape as the nautilus. It's the same shape as an ocean wave. That's the golden ratio! The bass clef is a symbol of the golden ratio. No one ever says that, but that's what it it is... I don't believe it's an accident that we see these powerful symbols on the music staff and all the music flows out of it. To follow that even further, we turn that upside down, draw a line through it and come back, that's how I see the treble clef. The treble clef almost looks like the dollar sign and it seems like the line is flat but no, that's the golden ratio.

Regular RockOm commenter Todd F was so moved by Futureman's words, he was inspired to get inked. See his new artwork and read about his inspiration here in the RockOm forums. Very awesome and inspiring, Todd!

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