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This Too Shall Pass

by OK GO
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Mauricio Ortiz

is a Costa Rican illustrator living and working in London. I'm in love with his animalia series...




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Space Chair Project is a stunning advert by Grey London for Toshiba UK in which they created a rig of a biodegradable balsa wood chair, a huge weather balloon, and 8 HD Toshiba cameras, then let it float up towards the edge of the earth.




Here is behind-the-scenes making of Space Chair...




This ad is actually stirring up quite a bit of controversy for its resemblance to Simon Faithfull’s Escape Vehicle No 6 (2004), however Toshiba has asserted that Faithfull was consulted on the project and was a part of the process.



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Der Lauf der Dinge

The Way Things Go is an art film by swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss.


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formalin preservation

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amazing

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happy moon landing day

if it happened, it was 40 years ago today!




Tons more awesome photos here...

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Skulls of humans and various animals from the Galerie Huguier. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2008.


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Is this the theory of everything?

via anna pantchev
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what a migrane looks like

pretty accurate I'd say...as someone that frequently experiences migranes.

I came across this while going through the wellcome collection image archive.

"Painting of a barn showing the visual phenomena the artist experiences during a migraine. Visual confusion, overlaying and flattening of images, pulsating kaleidoscopic colours of an intense hue and sparkling white ‘stars’ have been analysed as representative of basilar migraine. These features lead to the visual confusion and discomfort experienced during an attack."

Painting 2005. Collection: Wellcome Images

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To put it quite simply.

This looks like it would be amazing.



An exhibition called 'Sea Creatures in Glass' at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
The glass sculptures were created by Leopold Blaschka and Rudolph Blaschka (father/son) in the 1800's.
These same guys who were commissioned by the Harvard to make their Glass Flowers gallery.

now to actually motivate myself to visit cambridge...

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Megan Canning

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Insp^∞

Gardens-in-a-Petri.

Sakurako Shimizu

"Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment."



There is an installation element as well where you can hear the actual sound for the pieces...



There are also brooches, a necklace, and earrings in the series.
This is the Giggle Neclace, and Yawn Brooch...



So frustrating when you see something awesome only to find out it is just "concept" jewelry not actually for sale!
That silver cuff would def be on my christmas list.

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science&nature+art&design

Field of Light installation by lighting designer Bruce Munro at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England this winter.



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Tokujin Yoshioka chair made of natural crystals to be exhibited at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo this Oct.



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Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien, and Osamu Shimomura discovered how to use GFP (which is responsible for luminosity in a jellyfish)
in tagging biological systems to aid research. Can't even begin to fully explain it, but it's amazing.

This one definitely isn't for art's sake, but it still looks awesome,
and it got a em a nobel prize!!!...



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Info about lightness perception that nerds like me are fascinated by

By Edward H. Adelson from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences @ MIT

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