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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....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging....
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Category: Biology
I'm guessing this type of behavior is why this breed of bird is so rare: Thank 3QD for the laugh. ;)...
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Category: Artists & Art
Okay, everyone, here is something intriguing. The following video is amateurish, bizarre, has terrible production values, and appears to be the work of either a master performance artist or someone who lacks any self-consciousness whatsoever (shades of Little Edie Bouvier...
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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
"It will die, eventually, because no one will know how to do it." But for now, a few miles from here, Firefly Press' John Kristensen is keeping the tradition of letterpress alive, as seen in this beautiful video by Chuck...
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Category: Artists & Art
I previously blogged about Jennifer Angus' insect installation, Insecta Fantasia, in the Newark Museum's Victorian Ballantine House. For those of you who couldn't make it to the show this YouTube video is a wonderful tour. Note the layered interplay of...
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Category: Ephemera
A world made of lined paper might not be as fun as this commercial suggests.
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Category: Artists & Art
The Science and Entertainment Exchange blog has an interesting post up about artist Willard Wigan, who creates sculptures that can only be seen through a microscope. Wigan's story is touching - he started sculpting as a child, when his...
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