Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist of mixed European and Native background. He often uses everyday objects such as sporting goods, shoes and luggage to create new versions of iconic cultural objects, such as Native American masks, totem poles and fossil skeletons. This piece, Shapeshifter (2000), is one of a series of monumental whale skeleton sculptures made of cheap acrylic lawn chairs. Continue reading “The Art of Science: Shapeshifter”
Lolcats help you understand teh cell division. First, basic mitosis:
A slightly different interpretation:
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Designer Jay Watson calls this deceptively simple table and bench set “Linger a Little Longer”. The thermochromic finish of the table and benches responds to the heat of the body parts or dishes placed on it, leaving a “watermark” on the particular point of contact, a fleeting echo of the enjoyment of food and company, of the evanescent pleasures of life.
Watson used a technology, sometimes called hypercolor, that has been around for decades, and updated it by using it, not in tacky t-shirts, but in quietly elegant pieces of furniture…with a secret.
More information at Jay Watson’s website.
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Charlotte Jarvis’ Blighted by Kenning is a unique cross-disciplinary art project that draws upon nature and biblical symbolism as well as cutting-edge science. As she describes it:
The project has bio-engineered a bacteria which has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights encoded into its DNA sequence. The DNA has been extracted and apples grown near The Hague, which houses the International Court of Justice, have been ‘contaminated’ with the synthetic DNA. They are currently being sent to genomics laboratories around the world, which have been asked to sequence the declaration and also to eat the fruit. Continue reading “The Art of Science: Fruit of Knowledge”
The Finch and Pea 