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gentleman loser

16:44 / 26.02.02

Check out the Silicon Zoo. Let's get small!

This is a subset of the excellent Molecular Expressions webpage.

I miss my Time-Life nature and science series too. Too bad my mom gave them away. Arrrgh!

[ 26-02-2002: Message edited by: gentleman loser ]

grant

18:51 / 16.10.03

Resurrecting this thread so people can see this:

How the monkey brain robot arm works.

It's a necessary animation.

I wish Saveloy's stuff was still in this thread -- it was majestic.

voidbox

11:19 / 02.12.03

i saw something like this in a comic once:

http://www.voidbox.net/53455/mapB.jpg

grant

14:23 / 02.12.03

Right on, voidbox. What is it, do you know?

I just found this today:
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the Future. It's a Smithsonian Institute exhibit about the futures we thought we'd be living in now, or dreamed we'd be living in the future.

There's some science fiction stuff, but mostly city planning, architecture and engineering. Flying cars and sweeping cityscapes.

Visionary City, William Robinson Leigh, 1908.

This is Eniac, 1946.

The "Songs of the Future: discography" section is a little weird and very corny, but that only adds to its beauty.

grant

15:06 / 02.12.03

The awesome majesty of Ernst Haeckel:

(this last from here.)

Saveloy

15:47 / 03.12.03

Man alive! It's my turn to be breathless. Thanks, grant, the Haeckel stuff is incredible. A pal of mine has a book full of black & white pics by him, but this is the first time I've seen any of his colour studies.

Abelated thanks to gentleman loser too, for the Molecular Expressions link. Loads of those pics suggest landscapes or cities, makes me want to see a Sci-Fi film set in a universe that looks like that.

I might see about sorting out some of those images that have disappeared (they were in the files section of a Yahoo group that Yahoo have deleted). I'll see if I can set up another Village Photos thingy.

Meanwhile:

From this brilliant site:

Dream Anatomy

Features work by all manner of anatomy artists, including Andreas Vesalius. I particularly recommend the Childrens Gallery, which features pics drawn by nippers who were asked to imagine what their insides looked like.

grant

17:30 / 03.12.03

Wow.

this and this are breathtaking.

Seems like it must be related to that Bodyworlds business.

Saveloy

10:53 / 23.04.04

Neuroscience Art Gallery

More 'science looks at art' than 'art about science', but worth a peek. Especially the Louis Wain stuff (he's the chap who did the mad cats).

grant

03:01 / 14.06.06

Because I giggle like a tiny child when confronted by NASA's archive of space colony illustrations from the 1970s.

This was the future I was promised. Omni Magazine, where have you gone??

Saveloy

08:11 / 21.06.06

Ah, brilliant stuff. Thanks, grant.

If anyone wants to see the mad illustrations from the 'Drugs' volume of the Life Science Library (which disappeared from this thread some time ago) they can be found here on Flickr.

grant

17:24 / 21.06.06

What the hell is that giant gun depicting?

Saveloy

07:35 / 22.06.06

Er.... A new drug delivery method? I'll look it up when I get home.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

10:14 / 24.06.06

Some of the things here are really amazing (also there's a gallery for last year). The turbulent channel structures are very, very pretty.

grant

00:33 / 25.06.06

That seahorse is gorgeous. And the nematode video -- that's begging for some kind of reappropriation.

grant

15:18 / 26.06.06

A reconstruction of the Royal Graves of Ur. Gold, lapis lazuli and crumbling death.

MintyFresh

15:14 / 29.06.06

If these were real and not an artistic statement about the deplorable moral condition of humanity, I would totally want one:GenPets.com

sorenson

02:48 / 30.06.06

I have long been a fan of Professor Jeremy Pickett-Heaps work photographing very small things.

On-line art gallery here

grant

02:29 / 10.09.06

This photographer has made portraits of every element for a poster of the periodic table. Some of the images seem to be quite lovely.

StarWhisper

16:31 / 10.09.06

This is a lovely thread. Snow:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snow_crystals.png

Bosch-esque

Grant, your space colonies link. Isn't this image the inspiration for babylon 5's garden? Nice to see a bit of cultural referencing.

locusSolus

12:40 / 25.03.07

Interesting. I also recommend www.visualcomplexity.com

guitargirl

07:22 / 05.04.07

Histology staining is an art form without a doubt. Check out these slides..

MSB stain

ZN stain for acid fast bacteria..TB in this slide (lung)

Perls prussian blue for Haemachromotosis (liver)

Beautiful!

grant

15:25 / 05.04.07

Space colonies: That was actually a common motif in Omni magazine. Late 70s/early 80s were all about gardens in space. There was even a garden-in-space movie, Silent Running.

Histology slides: Liver and stained glass. Liver as stained glass!

guitargirl

15:29 / 05.04.07

heehe that liver stain would make a great picture to hang up in the bog, or as a PC wallpaper

I love carrying out these stains, but they are such a fanny about with all different reagents and timings, some of them can take a good 3 hours to complete. But that Perls only only takes about 30 mins, nice and quick. The ZN stain takes about 25 mins and the MSB one takes bloody ages.

But the chemistry behind staining is so brilliant, I fecking love it

Lama glama

20:48 / 07.04.07

This image was just released this week. It's a really, astonishingly beautiful, Hubble image of our nearest galactic neighbour "Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672". I can't get enough space porn.

grant

17:38 / 22.02.08

There was a lunar eclipse this week

This is what it looked like from the other side:

Click to make bigger.

grant

20:45 / 24.07.08

ONLINE

virtual storage

DATA BASE
.

IBM slide show from 1975. I think I work in the building where it was made.

grant

18:49 / 04.08.08

And a magnetic fields film: Magnetic Movie.

Tsuga

21:24 / 04.08.08

I don't think this has been linked to yet, Nasa's Earth as Art, satellite imagery from around the world.

grant

19:38 / 05.08.08

That's beautiful.

I'd heard of Earth as Art, but hadn't been there in a while.

museum in time, tiger in space

06:34 / 09.08.08

This is part of a film called Book of Mirrors, by Joost Rekveld - it was made by bouncing beams of light off mirrors and through kaleidoscopes. It's from Rekveld's blog, Light Matters.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:28 / 21.09.11

Bump for awesome.

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