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November 26, 2003 baroplastics permalink
posted by bev
 recycling plastic has never made sense until now, thanx to some smart folks at MIT. they did this by mixing hard and soft plastics together and compressing them in a mold until "the hard component dissolved into the soft component making it malleable and easy to remould." November 25, 2003 electric storm permalink
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 whenever a company like Shell sponsors such "good" things like an aurora light show to "emphasise its commitment to renewable energy sources," one has to suspect they are on to something no good (to compensate or hide something else). this simulation of the Northern Lights uses lighting mounted on 40 trees around the river near the London Eye, sound & atmospheric sensor equipment, and a 43-metre wind turbine to blow mist around that will dissipate the light. a bit ironic with the usage of all this equipment. this will go on until mid-february. more photos November 24, 2003 morchella permalink
posted by bev
 this is a pair of baby Morchella esculenta mushrooms. the genus Morchella has a bone-like, sponge-like head. there are more beautiful mushroom portraits from the kinoko-ya site. this one doesn't even look like a mushroom. membrane, goblets, hallucinate, tentacles, blue, red, brain, inverted, ooze, blob, flat, cone, fleshy, jellyfish, coral, kale. (via geisha asobi) November 21, 2003 sour mutant permalink
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 how many ways can you photograph a lemon? well, this one is exceptionally photogenic. one of the winners of the link-fu contest is the HORRIBLE LOVECRAFT/WOODRING MUTANT LEMON, which i missed until technoccult pointed it out. November 20, 2003 organic aquacosm permalink
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 i always thought Lynn Fox, who made Bjork's Nature is Ancient video, was a woman. but according to Xeni, it's a group of guys and the company is called Lynn Fox. interesting.... anyway, their 3d work is unbelieveable if you haven't seen them. November 19, 2003 perverted chic permalink
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 Basso & Brooke's imagery is a cross between baroque cartoons, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon. you can buy their "hot pads and tea towels illustrated with penises, eye masks quilted with illustrations of genitalia and picnic blankets splattered with ejaculation images" (via boing boing) November 17, 2003 radiolaria permalink
posted by bev
 this photo was taken with a really cool photomicrograph setup i recently bought from PocketScope. this is a couple of radiolaria magnified 150x. i first learned about radiolaria thru Ernst Haeckel's book Kunstformen der Natur. and Die Radiolarien. November 14, 2003 erotica permalink
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 scandalous former Tory MP Neil Hamilton and wife Christine Hamilton opened the 10th annual Erotica festival (claimed the world’s largest) in London today. tomorrow will be Britain's first National Erotica Day. there will be an attempt to break the Guinness record for the most people kissing in one place at one time, currently at a record of 1,588 pairs of lips. November 10, 2003 creatures of disguise permalink
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 The Most Extreme: Disguise episode on the animal planet channel featured the top 10 animals that are masters at disguise.
November 7, 2003 emotional design permalink
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 Donald Norman's forthcoming book called Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things looks pretty good. it's about time another book about affective computing comes out since Rosalind Picard's Affective Computing. November 6, 2003 magic camera permalink
posted by bev
 this was last year's news but new to me. Farrell Eaves, a 69-year-old retired security engineer and sometime photographer dropped his digital camera into a pond. after weeks of trying to dry it out in all possible ways, broiling, baking, blow-drying, and sun-drying, his camera came back to life in an unexpected way. the pictures he calls "magical" are somewhat painterly, flat, abstract, and distorted. colors are all tweaked and blurred into each other. his life was changed since then. he's been exhibiting his photos and even published a book of them. November 5, 2003 FRT permalink
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 mammals fart, like this whale that was caught on film. but fish? apparently, they do, for communication purposes. Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT) is what the biologists have called the sounds and air that emanate from the anus of herring fish. so that's how they communicate. in a way, we do the same, except that it comes from our mouth. read about it here. you can even listen to these FRTs. (via wiley wiggins) November 4, 2003 beautifully grotesque permalink
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 the Turner prize exhibition going on now at the Tate seems to be especially controversial this year. mainly because the vulgar Chapman brothers are on the shortlist. they were in the (even more controversial) Sensation show and also currently showing at the Saatchi gallery. however, Jake Chapman bites the hand that feeds him on bbc news. November 3, 2003 fear of the dark permalink
posted by bev
 the Light Blanket is an idea by James McAdam to help children who are afraid of the dark. the little patterned lights are motion-sensitive to create a happy glowing animation. it has 4 sets (ten surface-mounted LEDs per set) of colors and behaviors. see video of how it works. |
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