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June 2013

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May 2013

“I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!” —Al Lewis - aka Grandpa Munster
May 8, 20136 notes
#al lewis #grandpa #the munsters #homeless
May 8, 201310 notes
#dave mckean #photography illustration #painting #comics #sandman #vertigo
May 8, 201316 notes
#art #aws #don pendleton
May 8, 2013179,048 notes
#stealth #heat signature #canada
May 7, 201389,565 notes
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May 6, 20134 notes
#star wars #return of the jedi #skateboards #graphics #probe droid #mcdonalds #marlboro #mynock #empire strkes back #logray #Hunter S. Thompson #fear & loathing #ewoks #stencils #rotj #dissent #buck d addams #drones

snapmagazine:

OBEY THE GIANT

Obey released a new film which is based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992.

Watch it here

May 3, 20131 note
#film #shepard fairey #street art #Rhode Island School of Design

April 2013

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.” —Anaïs Nin (via durianseeds)
Apr 4, 201313,530 notes

March 2013

Mar 28, 2013695 notes
#glass #marine life #ART
Mar 28, 201339,429 notes
#treehouses
Mar 28, 20132,344 notes
#art #zines #type #collage
Mar 28, 20135 notes
#design #carson #glaser #Brian Banton
Mar 28, 20138 notes
#ONOMATOPEE #Andrés Ramírez Gaviria #art #typography #type #design
Mar 27, 20135,159 notes
#typography
Mar 24, 2013285,828 notes
#exposure #photography #art
Mar 24, 201341,514 notes
#ART #illustration #julian landini
Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells → nature.com

scinerds:

Reverse-engineered life form could be used to test drugs.

A jellyfish made of silicone and rat heart cells ‘swims’ in water when subjected to an electric field. Image: Harvard University/Caltech

Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.

“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work. The project is described today in Nature Biotechnology.

Parker’s lab works on creating artificial models of human heart tissues for regenerating organs and testing drugs, and the team built the medusoid as a way of understanding the “fundamental laws of muscular pumps”. It is an engineer’s approach to basic science: prove that you have identified the right principles by building something with them.

In 2007, Parker was searching for new ways of studying muscular pumps when he visited the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts. “I saw the jellyfish display and it hit me like a thunderbolt,” he says. “I thought: I know I can build that.” To do so, he recruited John Dabiri, a bioengineer who studies biological propulsion at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. “I grabbed him and said, ‘John, I think I can build a jellyfish.’ He didn’t know who I was, but I was pretty excited and waving my arms, and I think he was afraid to say no.”

Janna Nawroth, a graduate student at Caltech who performed most of the experiments, began by mapping every cell in the bodies of juvenile moon jellies (Aurelia aurita) to understand how they swim. A moon jelly’s bell consists of a single layer of muscle, with fibres that are tightly aligned around a central ring and along eight spokes.

To make the bell beat downwards, electrical signals spread through the muscle in a smooth wave, “like when you drop a pebble in water”, says Parker. “It’s exactly like what you see in the heart. My bet is that to get a muscular pump, the electrical activity has got to spread as a wavefront.”

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Further information:

  • Artificial jellyfish made from rat heart (video)
  • A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion (paper)
Mar 23, 2013216 notes
#science #frankenstein #jelly fish #artificial
Mar 22, 20133,725 notes
“Ya know that part in ROTJ when our favorite ocean reeking homie, Ackbar is explaining about the defense mechanism the empire has installed on the “forest moon of Endor.” Moon? That tron-esque future Tupac display didn’t show a planet….So what is the planet that moon is orbiting?…and how fucking big is that? I mean… sometimes I think about this stuff. Questions.” —Buck D Addams
Mar 22, 20132 notes
#Buck D Addams #the grazing #nerdism
Mar 21, 2013102 notes
Mar 20, 20132,401 notes
#cycling
Mar 20, 20137,154 notes
#design
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” —Jack Kerouac (via dulcetdecember)
Mar 14, 2013441 notes
#Jack Kerouac #Kerouac #Great things #popular opinion
Mar 14, 201325 notes
#extraterrestrial #life #aliens #meteorite #fragments #russian meteorite
Mar 14, 2013189 notes
#photography #art
Mar 14, 201343 notes
Mar 14, 201310 notes
#apps #iphone #android #groceries
“It’s a bad day when you don’t get the work done that you need to get done or you don’t get it done to the satisfaction.” —David Fincher
Mar 14, 20138 notes
#fincher #david fincher
Mar 14, 201327 notes
#Higgs Boson #God Particle #hadron collider #Physicists #CERN #science
Mar 14, 20134,867 notes
#dead dolls
Mar 14, 20132,163 notes
#sound #electronic music #art #digital #Ryoji Ikeda #the Armory #OKTOPHONIE #Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mar 13, 20135 notes
#letter press #art #acid?
Mar 13, 20132,853 notes
#abandon #beauty #photography
“People say kids always tease and that it’s an innocent rite of passge, but it’s not. Every time an Edgar or Billie called me “chink” or “Chinaman” or “ching chong” it took a piece of me. I didn’t want to talk about it, and kept it to myself. I clenched my teeth waiting to get even. Unlike others who let it eat them up and took it to their graves, I refused to be that Chinese kid walking everywhere with his head down. I wanted my dignity, my identity, and my pride back; I wanted them to know there were repercussions to the things they said. There were no free passes on my soul and everything they stole from me I decided I’d take back double.” —Eddie Huang, “Fresh Off The Boat: A Memoir” (via girlxploded)
Mar 13, 2013661 notes
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#collage #Erin Case
Mar 11, 20137,611 notes
#art
Mar 11, 20138,164 notes
#moonrise kingdom #ravens
Mar 11, 2013118 notes
#Spiders
Mar 10, 20131,942 notes
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Mar 10, 2013977 notes
#photography #photoshop #andreas franke
“We are under no illusion that design is everything in human life, nor do we foolishly believe that individuals who specialize in one or another area of design are necessarily capable of carrying out successful work in other areas. What we do believe is that design offers a way of thinking about the world that is significant for addressing many of the problems that human beings face in contemporary culture. We believe that conscious attention to the way designers work in specialized areas of application, such as communication or industrial design, is relevant for work in other areas. And we believe that general access to the ways of design thinking can provide people with new tools for engaging their cultural and natural environment.” —Richard Buchanan (via empiricaltheory)
Mar 10, 20136 notes
#Richard Buchanan #graphic design #design #art #tools #skill set
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#got #hbo #game of thrones #austin tx #pedicabs
Mar 5, 2013142 notes
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” —George Carlin (via czarinna)
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