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nickoleptic:

givemeloveandwork:

Beautiful Installation piece

wow. incredibly beautiful.

this is a very impressive piece, take a look :)

Just a few of the many items you will find at my booth tomorrow at Crafty Supermarket in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center.  Living jewelry necklaces with actual tiny living succulents inside, blown glass orbs wire wrapped, and found glass tumbled and wire wrapped, all made by my hands.

I’ll be there from 10am until 6pm, will you drop in?

wnycradiolab:

Hugh Turvey has an x-ray machine and he’s not afraid to use it.

More of Turvey’s work here.

ianbrooks:

One Thousand Means of Escape by S. Astrid Bin

This installation featuring 1,000 paper airplanes are meant to evoke a flock of birds, caught in mid-flight, but it reminds me of stars flying by at warp speed. I’m still saddened by the painful fact that I will never live long enough to see paper spacecraft technology progress that far though :(

(via: lostateminor)

theverythingg:

Phoebe Cummings at Victoria and Albert Museum

In 2010, ceramic artists Phoebe Cummings did a residency at Victoria and Albert Museum in London. During those 6 months her studio space evolved as an ongoing temporary installation. From this unique space inside the collections she will be researching how nature and landscape have been represented historically through ceramic objects and interpreting elements of these designs in the construction of three-dimensional environments.

Phoebe’s work is absolutely mind blowing. Using only raw clay, she created intricate other worldly environments that seemed to be alive and growing. The amount of detail down to a microscopic level is incredibly impressive.

Although her residency has ended her documentation is still online and can be viewed HERE!

-Alysia

poptech:

Olson Kundig Architects install a mushroom farm inside a Seattle storefront that repurposes the city’s discarded coffee grounds as compost and teaches locals about urban agriculture.

(via architizer)

♡’s with insects :3

A photo of a man sitting on liquid mercury came up in conversation with my roommate.  I decided that I had to seek it out, and here it is in all its craziness.  He’s not only sitting on it, he’s being held up by it… very dense stuff.

I believe it may be a photo from the 1970s, and may have been in a National Geographic magazine edition.

My first trial with my semi-newly acquired rock tumbler.  

I wasn’t expecting the rock tumbler motor’s drive gear would wear off.  I was hoping more for the contents of the barrel to meet such a fate, as would be expected of a rock tumbler.

I suppose I should possibly have anticipated this result with a 40yr old rock tumbler with plastic drive gears.

It provides me an excuse to make my own though…

(anyone else have trouble typing the word “tumbler” properly after having used Tumblr a considerable amount?)

These are some of the jewelry items I currently offer :)  I’ll post more within the month as they’re completed.  I also have a very exciting concept to share once I figure out a few kinks!

a. wire-wrapped sea glass with a light electroplating.

b. indicator light bulb wire-wrapped, electroplated, filled with small fossils.

c. blown glass bead wire-wrapped, electroplated, use of instrument string.

d. indicator light bulb with living succulent, “living jewelry” line.

e. live oak acorns.

wnycradiolab:

itsprobablysomeone:

ezeket már nem kell letesztelni :)

Oh microwaves. How did we ever live without you?

this app is fantastic!

adorablespiders:

there is an app called Project Noah (its free) where you can upload images of wildlife you see in your area and can either post it with its identification or post it as unidentified so others using the app can identify it :) I just got the app and I’m totally obsessed with it :D

you’re welcome

adorablespiders:

Regal Jumping Spider

:)

nickoleptic:

nickross:

mikeedesign:

I wonder if most people appreciate the amount of work it takes to colorize a black and white photo. These are beautiful! I don’t know why, but I especially like the Einstein one.

these really are beautifully done

there have been a lot of interesting coincidences in my own thoughts and experiences recently and the random bits of information that come to me from outside.

perhaps i have just been thinking about a lot, or thinking about a lot of very basic or universal things.

regardless, i was just, perhaps yesterday, thinking about the process that might be involved in colorizing a photo, and imagining that it might be extremely painstaking.

these are exceptionally impressive.

olivehearts:

Wait till after the 1 minute mark.  Wild gorillas approach this lucky dude.

more info about John King (in the video) and Pam King here: http://blog.commonflat.com/

wildlife photographers seeking to “raise awareness [through their photography] of the importance of biodiversity and the preservation of species and promote conservation.”

wnycradiolab:

Know what these are?  Go ahead, guess.

Give up? They’re topographical maps of the moon, created in a collaboration between NASA and the US Geological Survey.  I can’t get over how crazy beautiful they are.  There are more here, super hi-res.

(via io9, thanks to Olga Abramson for the tip)

olivehearts:

moreferalthan:

Since the early 1980s, artist Hubert Duprat has been utilizing insects to construct some of his “sculptures.” By removing caddis fly larvae from their natural habitat and providing them with precious materials, he prompts them to manufacture cases that resemble jewelers’ creations. Information theory, as explained by biologists such as Jacques Monod and Henri Atlan, helps us understand what seems to be the insect’s aesthetic behavior. The activities of the caddis worm, as manipulated by Hubert Duprat, are prompted by the “noise”—-beads, pearls and 18-karat gold pieces—-introduced by the artist into the insect’s environment.

nickoleptic:

visualizing migration flows by nation.  this site is pretty awesome.

This is gorgeous.

planetaryfolklore:

mythologyofblue: Wall hangings of an astronomical theme, circa 1850 (woolandwax)

sototallyaustin:

A fungus.