From Pradip Malde & Mike Ware We are pleased to announce an exciting newly-invented iron-based printing process, which we are today offering to the alternative photographic process community. It makes use of the recent scientific discovery that human brain tissue may accumulate deposits of reactive, neurotoxic iron(III) salts: http://www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2002/press/200808press.html Neurotype Instructions 1) Drink [...]
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polaroid resurrection
Luca. Brassai-eye. Polaroid. 2008 Please let this be true – the Polaroid factory in the Netherlands is going back into production! [Thanks Bjorn!]
the plebs, the priests and the very large hadron collider
Floating Stone (from series, Memory Balance Love) 1989 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in The same mental types as those who broke into hives and weeping fits at the onset of solar eclipses centuries ago, and as those who crowed disaster with the arrival of 2000 are now approaching thrombo red-zones with the powering up of the [...]
chris bucklow
chris bucklow. (wave. particle.) 2008 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in
Stepen Alvarez's blog
My friend Stephen Alvarez has started a wonderful photo blog. Consistently making heartfelt work for National Geographic and other notable publications, Stephen is now posting images almost daily with an accompanying commentary. Additionally, another friend, Geof Bowie posts weekly tech notes about the Mac and related matters. Thanks guys for sharing so much experience and [...]
Debra Swack
Debra Swack’s Animal Patterning Project considers the implications and motivations of genetically modification for aesthetic purposes. In this case, Swack ‘explores the concept of genetically altering the patterning of animal skins to make them more aesthetic for human exploitation and later usage in garments and accessories.’ There’s some challenging stuff here. What do you think?
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emergence
I’ve been thinking about Steven Johnson’s book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software – and this interview which sums up some of his ideas. Street in Eatonton, GA. While on my way to to give a talk at GCSU
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Curt Cloninger and the Emily Dickinson Difference Engine
Sewanee Alum and long-lost friend Curt Cloninger has put up a fascinating project on the web. His ‘Emily Dickinson Difference Engine‘ layers visual data with text data (Dickinson’s poetry), thereby “revealing the impenetrability of things, the malleability of words, and the feelings that humans associate with things and words.” Thanks Curt!
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Art, mathematics and your kidneys
What does this IMAGE have to do with kidney transplant / donor patients? The research that this diagram illustrates (carried out by Sommer Gentry and T. S. Michael, mathematicians at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) could lead to dramatically improving [...]
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readymechs… and how to start building your own
“Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. [In addition to the paper and printer,] you’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.” This from the amazing readymech site, which is one of [...]
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