February 2010
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“In the sciences, especially, it’s a great advantage to be able to question...”
– Author unknown, unfortunately (via cavesoflilith) (via sagittalslice)
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Haikuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Bales of pine needles
lining all the flower beds,
ready to be spread
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Watchscienceisbeauty:
This is an audio-reactive algorithmic visual art piece that uses the concept of charged particles and flocking to simulate a organism that is alive and composed of micro-organisms.
Source&Credit: Reza Ali
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WatchMahavishnu Orchestra—- full concert at Syracuse University, 1972
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Watchwhileyouwereout:
Slowly but surely I’m getting somewhere.
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Coloured lights sculpt nanoparticles
by Colin Barras [courtesy of New Scientist]
How many chemists does it take to change an LED light bulb? Two – and they’ve shown that choosing its colour selects the shape of nanoparticles growing out of a solution of silver.
Kevin Stamplecoskie and Juan Scaiano at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, can grow silver particles shaped as hexagons, rods, triangles, spheres or...
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“Art for art’s sake? Forget it. What you need is artspeak for artspeak’s sake.”
– Making a great painting is difficult enough, why does writing about it have to be so complicated?
Artspeak? It’s complicated | Jon Canter
(via gallerygirl)
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Haikuesday, February 9th, 2010
Paper folds upon
itself about two thousand
times before it breaks.
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
brought to you by Alexander Calder
How can art be realized?
Out of volumes, motion, spaces bounded by the great space, the universe.
Out of different masses, tight, heavy, middling— indicated by variations of size or color— directional line— vectors which represent speeds, velocities, accelerations, forces, etc.— these directions making between them meaningful...
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Watchecotone:
macro kingdom, by clemento
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Haikuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Is there anything
better than staying under
a blanket with you?
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