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Author: Egor Kraft
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Artwork consists of approximately 2700 badges, dimensions: 135×110 cm.
Courtesy of fond Ripley’s. Orlando, FL.
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WILLIE COLE
Following my last article…another shoe Master.
ANXIOUS OBJECTS
Willie Cole is best known for assembling and transforming...
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Metal Box 2013 Sadies Coles Gallery
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Shinique Smith ‘Kaleidoscopic’ at David Castillo Gallery
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63 posts tagged science
Conservationists often go to extremes to protect endangered species and save them from extinction. Here’s a look at some of the strangest things mankind has done to prevent a species from being wiped off the planet — from developing alluring bird perfume to cloning an animal from beyond the grave.
What New York City Would Look Like on Other Planets
“Take a trip around the solar system and bring the entire city of New York with you in these captivating drawings showing how the atmospheres of other planets would interact with the iconic metropolitan skyline.
The images were created by artist Nickolay Lamm, who employed the help of astrobiologist Marilyn Browning Vogel to get the details right. Lamm said the idea came to him while looking at pictures that NASA’s Curiosity rover took of Mount Sharp.”
Welcome to the Museum of Copulatory Organs
It all started with a flea circus. This is the story of Maria Fernanda Cardoso, whose biology-based artwork progressed from her very own circus of live fleas to detailed models of nature’s most intricate and unlikely reproductive systems. Industrial design, electron microscopy, and 3D printing were all brought to bear, and the results are fascinating.
This story, created in partnership with Symbolia and Popular Science, was illustrated and animated by Andy Warner. “My father is a marine biologist who specialized in fish sex change,” says Warner, “and I grew up learning about weird and wonderful animal behavior and morphology at the dinner table.”
Ashes to ashes, dust to … diamonds?
A company that turns cremated remains into diamonds has made headlines by turning celebrities and less famous loved ones into jewelry. Next up? Fido.
Form 1 High-Res 3D Printer
It can print nearly anything you can imagine in exquisite detail. Using high-end stereolithography technology, the Form 1 can construct details as small as 300 microns, and can print objects up to 4.9” x 4.9” x 6.5” in size. The included Form Software lets you start with .stl files and finalize your design, ensuring that every detail is there, just the way you designed it.
One Cubic Foot
How humans’ choice to grow just one crop can affect nature’s balance.
A typical terrestrial ecosystem is a living mosaic of hundreds or even thousands of species, balanced on one another’s existence like a biological house of cards. From plants and bugs down to microscopic fungi and bacteria, there’s a world of life in just a cubic meter.
That’s what David Liitschwager’s new book One Cubic Foot set out to capture. Anything that came through a plastic cube one foot on each side was photographed and catalogued. It’s stunning just how much life there is right under our feet, or above our heads, at any moment. Move the cube just a few feet away? You may see a completely different slice of the biodiversity pie.
However, there are tales of caution within those pages. See those two photos at top? The top photo shows the biodiversity present in a typical slice of shrub land. Cooperative populations of over 100 plants and insects. The bottom? It’s from an Iowa cornfield, home to less than an actual handful.
That cornfield is the victim of the modern agricultural practice of monoculture.
Where there were once hundreds of species, living together on the richest soil in the midwest, there remain a sparse few. In manipulating nature to grow only one crop on a piece of land, we have created an almost alien world. It’s beyond a debate between organic vs. conventional (neither of which are perfect). It’s a question of simple biology, and I don’t like the answer.
Be sure to read Robert Krulwich’s review of One Cubic Foot. And then check out Michael Pollan talking about the danger of monocultures to nature and our diets.
Is this jellyfish immortal?
According to research discussed in the New York Times over the weekend, this Turritopsis dohrni can do a Benjamin Button and reverse its aging process. However fascinating this species of jellyfish, the biology is a little more complex and extreme skepticism needs to be applied to any extraordinary claim.
Now that space experts have a better grasp of where the water on the moon came from, we can divert our attention to a more fundamental question: How did the moon itself even get there?
Multiple studies published this week shed new light on a long-standing — but flawed — theory that the moon was birthed from a massive, high-impact collision between a primitive version of Earth and a smaller planet. Was the moon once part of Earth?
Photo: huang xingwei/Xinhua Press/Corbis
IRIS by HYBE
Interactive installation is grid of transparent LEDs which display halftone and circular patterns whose display can emulate it’s viewers.
A week ago, I covered a New Media exhibition in Seoul called ‘The Da Vinci Ideas Exhibition’ and was intrigued by this piece, hoping there would be a video of it. Well, the brilliant Creative Applications discovered it, which you can watch in the embed below:
Created by Korena collective HYBE, IRIS is a media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology, that is a monochrome LCD.Through the phased opening and closing of circular black liquid crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights.
More Info and images can be found at Creative Applications here
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SMALLER ON THE INSIDE A macro photo of a waterbear, or tardigrades, on moss. Tardigrades are water-dwelling, segmented creatures with eight legs and measuring just 1mm in length. They are found throughout the world, including regions of extremes, such as around hot springs, deep waters, places with high levels of radiation and even in the vacuum of space. (Photo: Eye Of Science / SPL / Solent via The Telegraph)
