Brian Dettmer’s surgical book sculptures, meticulously carved into vintage volumes and hand-cut one page at a time.
This is simply one of the greatest creations, repurposed or not, that I have ever seen. I can not fathom how long this would take. Bravo.
Mads Peiterson. ” The Anatomy of Technology “
So THAT’S how they work. Check out the full collection here.
Little known fact: your monitor is made of cuttlefish skin and chameleon pigments.
This is the Coffee Cycle, one of the great driving forces of life on Earth.
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Put a Little Science in Your Love Life Today
Let’s face it, Hallmark doesn’t exactly tingle your neurons with deep thoughts and brainy expressions of love. If you’re looking for some slightly smarter and more creative ways to express your affection today, here’s a few creations from around the interwebs.
- “You Are Here” from StreetAnatomy.com
- “DNA Helicase” from Pink Orchid Press
- Julien Girard of Paranal Observatory created this stellar valentine by drawing a heart with a pen-light during a 25-second exposure
- “Elements of Sexy” from Yellow Bug Boutique
- “HeartFelt” by Once Again Sam
This is the only day I will endorse letting your heart have more weight than your brain.
Love someone or something today, commercialized holiday or not.
Painting above: Der Vivisektor by Gabriel von Max, 1883
(via Morbid Anatomy)
Super-Fun Online Fluid Dynamics Simulator
Some friendly guy named Oliver designed this equally fun and addictive fluid dynamics simulator. There’s real physics behind this beautiful time-suck, and it’s a wonderful example of science-art hybrid creativity.
Above are four screencaps of creations I made by playing around with the controls. Reblog or photo reply with your own creations! I’d love to see what you come up with.
The project was based on data I gathered by taking a lengthy survey about my facebook® “friends.” I asked myself questions ranging from personal (do I know this person’s phone number?) to generic (can I recognize this person by their name alone?) and assigned each of my cyber-friends a score ranging from 1-25 (those that scored less than 1 were de-friended). Each score was then plotted on a color spectrum. I then made a wax bust for each person in the color that corresponded to their score.
Colin Pinegar’s BestFriends
Mr. Pinegar’s Facebook network mapped from purple (close friends) to red (impersonal) and laid them out in a physical map.
Made of wax busts of his head, naturally.
“Life is a real and autonomous process independent from any specific material manifestation…”
That’s how Lorenzo Oggiano describes his quasi-object art. It’s a bit of art mumbo-jumbo, but I interpret it as asking how forms can arise as interpretations of systems that we don’t traditionally look at as “living”. Or something.
“… to stimulate thought and dialogue on the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution. “Quasi-Objects” regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process”
What’s your interpretation? More here.
(via but does it float)
Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous “Blue Marble” image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high-resolution photograph of our watery world.
The photo centered on the western hemisphere, highlighting North and Central America. It went viral and got even more hits on Flickr than the iconic “Situation Room” photo, taken at the time of the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
Now, responding to public demand, the agency has created a companion image: this time focusing its lens toward the East and showing Africa, Saudi Arabia and India.
I recall that quite a few people felt left out of the party last week when the Blue Marble 2K12 came out and centered on the Western Hemisphere.
Now we have a bit more of the globe represented. Not all of it, but better? Will this East Coast/West Coast Hemisphere rivalry never end?!
The Tissue Series are a collection of anatomical cross sections using quilled paper, created by Lisa Nilsson
Today’s theme is turning into paper-based science art, it looks like. First it’s computational origami, now it’s anatomy lessons via quilled paper.
I’m ok with that.
More at Lisa Nilsson’s website.
(via myedol)
Erik and Martin Demaine are a father-son team exploring the mathematical mysteries in folded paper. When circular sheets are crinkled along concentric circumferences, it results in exotic projections like the ones seen above.
This is a form of paper art that has been explored since the 1920’s, but the Demaines are using modern computation to unravel the complex algorithms behind the shapes. Starting with different curvatures and rotations in flat paper, they don’t always know what will come out the other end.
More of their curved-crease sculpture here, and their book.
(via Brain Pickings)
Self Portraits of a Declining Brain
William Utermohlen is latest artist to be honored at the GV Art Gallery in London, with an event that has an emotional purpose that is near and dear to the hearts of many. Utermohlen spent the last twelve years of his life battling Alzheimer’s, a degenerative neurological disease that slowly took away his ability to do what he was most passionate about: his art.
At the event, his widow spoke to the many supporters, saying “He died in 2007, but really he was dead long before that. Bill died in 2000, when the disease meant he was no longer able to draw.”
This exhibit is known as William Utermohlen: Artistic decline through Alzheimer’s, as it explores the relationship between Utermohlen’s artwork and the progression and struggle with the disease.
Looking at his pieces as his disease progressed, a clear change is visible. As he slowly lost control over his movements, his composition and techniques changed as he was forced to abandon oils for easier-to-use watercolours and pencils. One thing that did not change throughout time, however, was the sheer mastery and vision displayed by has passion for the content of his pieces.
His paintings display a rarely seen insight into a mind effected by Alzheimer’s, as his struggle and frustration are imminent. Also changed by the progression of time and the disease were his subjects. He began to focus on self portraits and looming dark doorways in the backgrounds
His widow commented that, “it was as if he knew he was going to a very dark place and he knew he couldn’t do anything about it. By the end he couldn’t even recognise his own paintings… that was the saddest thing”.
Rarely does one get the opportunity to chronicle their own experience with mental decline. Even more rarely do we get to share and observe that troubled journey.
This art is that tale.
Portraits of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking from Illustration Now’s book Portraits.
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