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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 • 7 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 • 2 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
Dear "Top Scientist": Here is a Rocket. You Put In Other Details
Category: Blogosphere
From the wonderful blog Letters of Note: in 1957, schoolboy Denis Cox generously shared his rocket blueprints with "A Top Scientist" at Australia's Woomera Weapons Research Establishment. The important stuff (Rolls Royce jet engines, "Air Torpeados") is all there,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:01 AM • 3 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
Invasion of the righteously angry trash robots
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Your brain - on Van Aelst
Category: Artists & Art
Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.
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