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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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
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Category: Yikes!
Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....
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Category: Artists & Art
To follow up on my post on Kevin Van Aelst, here's an anatomically-inspired artwork by Heather L. Johnson, whose new show, "Air and Blood", opens this month in NYC: Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the...
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Category: Artists & Art
From Inhabitat: Artist Brandon Jon Blommaert's recycled trash robots (yes, they're real sculptures) lay waste to Photoshopped landscapes. Check out his flickr page for more - and a "making of" series of photos showing how he built these steampunky...
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Category: Artists & Art
Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.
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