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Category: Art
This weekend I visited the Trauma exhibition at London's GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in some way to physical and psychological trauma inflicted on the body, by a range of artists working alone and in collaboration with medics....
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Fifty-four years ago today, a plucky little mongrel became the world's first space pilot, taking a one-way trip aboard Sputnik 2. Here's to you, Laika. Image: Detail of "Laika", by Phineras X Jones. Prints available from the artist....
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Category: Art
So BoingBoing has an item on hanging chain clocks, on sale from Ticktock Showroom at a bargain $100. I wrote about a similar art piece by Andreas Dober a year ago on these very pages, but that had a price...
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Category: Art
Self confessed geek and photographer Mark Meyer makes images that "narrate, persuade, inspire and inform". He wanted to know the exact colours present in his pack of crayons. What to do then, but put them through a spectrophotometer? Mark says:...
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Category: Art
I miss the 80s, when computing manuals were illustrated with things far removed from home computing. I found this amongst my pop's old computing books. Nowadays off-the-shelf programming software tends to be designed for a specific purpose, and I like...
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Category: Art
Artist Mike Bodge has unveiled a nifty project to chart the colour of the sky above New York City in real time. A camera installed in his office snaps a picture of the skyline every five minutes, and analyses the...
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Category: Art
What better way for a bunch of science geeks to celebrate a birthday than by having a science party?
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Category: Art
More in-depth analysis available from Ed Yong, Tom Chivers, New Scientist....
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Category: Art
Not sure who designed this fun graphic, but I like it! Explanation....
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Category: Art
Wikipedia user Colin Douglas Howell has created this spiffy gallery of dinosaur size comparison charts, which is ideal for those planning their next off road velociraptor safari. Many images feature an intrepid time-travelling tourist, who shows the same nonchalance whether...
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