Day of the Dead at the Zoo
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Seen in Cambridge, MA: a red-eyed skeletal zombie hippo. Paint-your-own ceramics was never like this when I was a kid!...
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Willy Chyr's Balluminescence
Category: Artists & Art
Talk about ephemera - Willy Chyr makes bioart out of balloons! Check out his installation Balluminescence: Balluminescence - Lights, Balloons, Jellyfish! was commissioned by Science Chicago and was created for the program's finale signature event - LabFest! Millennium Park....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Butterflies in Space
Category: Artists & Art
Macro Detail from a print from Press NY. via Blue Barnhouse Unfortunately the Press NY website appears to be defunct, but this image should be in the new letterpress book being compiled over at Blue Barnhouse. Check out their...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Laboratory at Harvard
Category: Artists & Art
I'm currently attending the Grand Opening of the new Laboratory at Harvard University, "an exhibition and meeting space for student idea development within and between the arts and sciences," for a special colloquium on Art, Science, and Creativity featuring David...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
xkcd channels Tolkein and Tufte at the same time
Category: Artists & Art
In case you didn't see it, the latest xkcd is a visual shout-out to data visualization guru Edward Tufte's favorite map, this 1861 depiction of Napoleon's march on Moscow, by Charles Joseph Minard. Yay! Movie Narrative Charts Charles Minard's 1869...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Magnetic Movie wins "most accurate" award at ISF
Category: Science
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Last week, at the imagine science film festival in New York, Magnetic Movie won the Nature Scientific Merit Award: In 2009, the Nature Scientific Merit Award went to the film judged to be not...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Escherichia Ophelia
Category: Artists & Art
The very epitome of bioephemera, from Microbial Art: Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dia de los Muertos + Boston = Skeletal Teddy Kennedy
Category: Artists & Art
One of the coolest, weirdest, worlds-colliding Day of the Dead artworks I've ever seen is this sculpture of a skeletal Teddy Kennedy. He's at a podium, open-jawed (no doubt haranguing other late Senators), accompanied by a skeletal dog. The paper...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Starving, with bellies full of plastic
Category: Artists & Art
Heartbreaking photos of albatross chicks, by photographer Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:47 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Weekend links: Lo! the Internetz awaketh
Category: Artists & Art
Good and bad on the Web: Open Access Week, asynchronous communication, a pictorial history of the internet, the Wellcome Image Awards 2009, and PopTech 09
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:37 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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