The X-ray photographer
Common cockles, by Nick Veasey, who "uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art"....Posted on June 24, 2008 12:12 PM • 2 Comments •
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One of the events organized for Bora's visit to London was a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the Darwin Centre, a newly built section of the Natural History Museum which houses the museum's researchers and contains a vast collection of...Posted on April 13, 2008 7:39 PM • 1 Comments •
Frida Kahlo's life of pain
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) had a life filled with pain. At the age of 6, she contracted polio, and this caused a paralysis of the right leg from which Kahlo took one year to recover. Then, in...Posted on January 24, 2008 4:48 PM • 4 Comments •
Google Earth image of Moses parting the Red Sea
God's Eye View, which depicts four biblical events as if captured by Google Earth, is the work of The Glue Society, a collective of writers, designers and art/ film directors based in Sydney, Australia.Says Glue Society member James Dive:...Posted on December 18, 2007 7:40 PM • 11 Comments •
Illusory installations
Opposition of Memory, by Luzern-based artist Nils Nova....Posted on December 10, 2007 7:14 PM • 0 Comments •
The impressionists' eye diseases
An article in the NY Times discusses the work of Michael Marmor, a professor of ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine who has created a computer simulation of how eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts have affected...Posted on December 4, 2007 6:33 PM • 6 Comments •
Emotional systems
Emotional Systems is the inaugural exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Centre La Strozzina at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy. It begins tomorrow and runs until 3rd February, 2008. The...installation...[includes] an exhibition, a publication and a programme...Posted on November 30, 2007 1:40 PM • 1 Comments •
A clockwork beetle
In his Insect Lab Studio, sculptor Mike Libby customizes real insects with parts from antique pocketwatches and electronic components from old circuit boards. Here, he describes how the idea first came to him: One day I found a dead...Posted on November 16, 2007 6:56 PM • 0 Comments •
Synaesthesia: The hidden sense
Synaesthesia is a condition in which stimuli of one type evoke sensations in another sensory modality. For example, hearing particular sounds might evoke strong sensations of colour or (more rarely) words might evoke strong tastes in the mouth.In The Hidden...Posted on November 16, 2007 2:38 PM • 3 Comments •
Mapping brainland
The cover of the current issue of Neuron features this brainland map, by Sam Brown, a cartographer based in New Zealand. Printed A3, A2 and A1 sized copies of the map can be purchased from Unit Seven. ...created from...Posted on November 9, 2007 3:27 PM • 2 Comments •
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