‘Cleaner’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
A Periclimenes yucatanicus shrimp cleans itself upon its symbiotic host, a Condylactis gigantea anemone, in a gorgeous aquarium installation by Miami-based Morphologic Studios.
From their website:
Morphologic is a scientific art endeavor led by marine biologist Colin Foord and designer Jared McKay. With the aquarium as our primary medium, we explore the artistic [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
In its sixth year, iGem certainly looks like a viable colony, actively self-replicating. Once containable within the disorienting confines of the Stata Center, the event is now a sprawling, all-over-campus thing. With more than 100 teams and some 1,700 participants, this year’s competition took over lecture halls in five separate buildings clustered along “iGem Lane.”
Getting [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Miyazake’s imagination inhabits a very cool universe.
I just love Maria Kalman’s work. Love. This … I don’t know what you call it — a graphic editorial? — manages to provide a succinct and compelling biography of Benjamin Franklin and say something important about the nature of American ingenuity not to mention the path to personal fulfillment. And it’s also just really [...]
I love this — grassy hills shaped like waves, constructed in an abandoned gravel pit — featured in the New York Times today. (The Times site also has a video about Lin and this project.)
Storm King, about an hour north of NYC, is a 500-acre open-air museum of large (like, huge) modern sculpture, including work [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Illustrator Christophe Niemann has a brilliant and hilarious “Opinion” piece in the New York Times online version today. Worth checking out!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Yes, it would be cool to be in the city to see stuff like this. On the other hand, the leaves on the drive up to Montreal last weekend were also pretty spectacular. Pictures of that later.