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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...
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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
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
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: Artists & Art
An enigmatic photo from Morbid Anatomy's review of the Quay Brothers show at Parsons in NYC. Read all about it here....
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Category: Artists & Art
Tyrannosaurus photoventris Judith Hoffman, 2009 This is just awesome! It's a dinocamera from artist/photographer/metalworker/amateur time traveler Judith Hoffman: That's a lens cap/shutter on his navel. He takes pinhole photos of the late Cretaceous using paper negatives. Here's one of...
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Category: Artists & Art
Artomatic just wouldn't be complete without a sinister cephalopod, and luckily Kurt Peterson stepped in to make it happen.
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Category: Retrotechnology and steampunk
In Seattle, a venerable fireworks show has become the subject of a legal dispute between locals and the city - and since this is Seattle, it's only to be expected that the dispute is over environmental impacts. But it's not...
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Category: Artists & Art
Michael Sirvet's aluminum shell, three feet in diameter, is a porous excuse for a bowl (heh heh), but all those edges make lovely sifted patterns of light.
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Category: Artists & Art
I'm not even going to start "deconstructing" the layers of meaning in Forrest McCluer's giant model of a biological virus, made out of discarded, outdated computers. . .
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