Exploring the Infinite
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-05-07-supernova_N.htm “NASA astronomers Monday reported the biggest and brightest star explosion ever recorded, a blast whose light began reaching Earth in the past year from 240 million light years away.”
From 1933… jeez, what would America do without some devised way of comparing ones beauty to the rest of the world? Bet this contraption wasn’t a woman’s invention.
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http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ From the site: “Digital innovators, creative researchers, award-winning producers, provocative artists, energetic executives, and adventurous engineers. The worldwide SIGGRAPH community gathers in San Diego to explore the products, systems, techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating the next three generations of computer graphics and interactive techniques.”
via steampunkworkshop.com This is just too much… a brass RSS feed telegraph sounder. It’s part of a pair created by Jake von Slatt.
This guy made his own FSM Holiday lights… he says “I tried to be as noodetomically correct as possible”
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2007/04/04/fractal-flightpaths-how-flies-find-their-way From the page: The research, from a pair of scientists at Rothamsted Research in the UK and UCLA, have examined and mapped the behavior of fruit flies (drosophila melanogaster) as they search for food. Their findings are interesting; the flies utilize a scale-free flightpath; this is similar to a snowflake, or a coastline, or one of those fractals…
http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/take-vector-paths-from-photoshop-into-illustrator/ Great little tut.
http://galerieverdun.com/art_blog/20070314/the-validity-of-abstract-art/ An interesting article which calls us to appreciate Abstract Art, rather than think of it as secondary to Realism because it requires an individual to create anew rather than mimic what already exists.
http://www.justinspace.com/phaunts/phaunts11.html