Sonar: datavisualizing music
Category: Artists & Art
A lovely, minimalist video portrait of music, by Renaud Hallee.
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Artists & Art:
Psychedelic cockroaches
Category: Artists & Art
Artist S. Shelley Jones sent me a link to some digital art depicting the lowly cockroach, who turns out to be much more attractive with a psychedelic spin. Thanks, Shelley! PS. "The Psychedelic Cockroach" is a great band name,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Kickstarting the Word Project: Help give obscure words a book of their own
Category: Artists & Art
Polly Law's Word Project is a series of mixed-media illustrations representing obscure words like dasypygal and nidifice. Though Law has exhibited her work in galleries, she hasn't found a backer to publish them as a book. . . yet....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A skeleton like a poem
Category: Artists & Art
Delicious - and suprisingly convincing - x-ray images of animals with "skeletons" made of typography by Katerina Orlikova. Be sure to check out _Motion Picture, a running cat-like creature reminiscent of Eadweard James Muybridge's vintage motion photography. Via Street...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:19 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Advice from a Caterpillar
Category: Artists & Art
Print Magazine asked four designers to storyboard their own versions of Alice. I kind of like this script-rich lowbrow fantasy, with an anime-inspired Alice by Sebastian Onufszak:...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
if someone had only told me Sb was a professional wrestling establishment. It explains so much
Category: Artists & Art
By Joseph Hewitt, who clearly understands the Sb atmosphere quite well....
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the art and engineering of fluid dynamics
Category: Artists & Art
One of the reasons little liberal arts colleges are awesome: this course at Lafayette. It's part of their Values and Science/Technology Program....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seven on Seven: Connecting Art and Technology
Category: Artists & Art
Feb 23rd (tomorrow) is the last day to snag advance tickets to the Seven on Seven conference in NYC: Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
AAAS Visualization Challenge Winners
Category: Blogosphere
FYI: the winners of the AAAS Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge are up! You may recognize some of them - including PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) cartoonist Jorge Cham. Check 'em out and share your opinions; I'll have more to...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Entomologia and other good stuff in NYC
Category: Artists & Art
Upcoming at Observatory in NYC: Entomologia (Feb 26-April 4), a group show of art incorporating and inspired by insects. I'm particularly intrigued by the discussion scheduled for April 3, "Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution:" Silkworms engineered to produce pharmaceuticals and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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