Glass acorns
Category: Conspicuous consumption
Etsy seller bullseyebeads makes glass acorns and tops them with real acorn caps. I think they're adorable....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:39 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
bioephemera
a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD
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Jessica Palmer has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has been blogging about the intersection of art and biology since 2006.
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Conspicuous consumption:
Flipping through the uncanniest of books
Category: Books & Essays
This little video from Abebooks is the closest I've ever gotten to flipping through a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus. What a truly weird book. I particularly love it when the staid narrator reveals his "favorite" illustration - a roller...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:15 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Why I no longer trust Yelp
Category: Blogosphere
One of the much-hyped benefits of social networking is that it provides a way to get personalized recommendations about businesses from a wider network. If I want to tell the world that the coffee place in my neighborhood has the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:59 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Cell Division - art for a good cause
Category: Biology
Cell Division IV Michele Banks DC area artist Michele Banks has donated one of her cell division watercolors to raise funds for art outreach. Check out the online auction - the painting is matted and framed and currently going...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:57 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
For people who hate talking anatomy while eating. . .
Category: Biology
. . . let the table settings do the talking (and the grossing out) for you! These Consumption Dinnerware plates by Leah Piepgras "are a map of the digestive tract, from mouth to anus:" I'm trying to decide if these...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Monster with Heart
Category: Artists & Art
The grotesque letterpress heartmonster needs to be cuddled.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:36 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Prepare to squee: baby 3D-printed strandbeests!
Category: Design
Thanks to Coilhouse, I just learned that artist Theo Jansen is producing 3D printed baby versions of his amazing strandbeests - wind-powered kinetic sculptures that "walk" on their own. If you don't remember Jansen, here he is with his eerie,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:30 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
If capillaries were jewelery. . .
Category: Artists & Art
While we're on the bioanimation topic, I recently heard from Jess at Nervous System, who sent me links to some animations of their new jewelry line, hyphae, "growing" in virtual space. Check it out: Hyphae - growth of the Vessel...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:24 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
When is sounding scientific a bad thing?
Category: Conspicuous consumption
I can think of a few answers, but the Name Inspector points out that naming food is one: apparently the Corn Refiners Association is trying to rename "high fructose corn syrup" "corn sugar." it's gotten an especially bad rap lately,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:54 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Fashion v. artist: the Darfur handbag saga
Category: Artists & Art
Louis Vuitton, the high-end accessory company, is suing a Dutch artist, Nadia Plesner, for painting a likeness of one of their handbags in a work of art publicizing the conflict in Darfur. According to the artist's attorneys, the painting, "Darfurnica,"...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:37 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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