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One of the first/worst in a series of books I made.It all had a life before this. The outsides were really old and from switzerland, the waste paper pages were given to me by a friend were street food envelope things from Sri Lanka, perviously waste paper/ homework etc. I like thinking about how objects could soak everything up, about how they are recontextualised in unexpected ways. I will then post these books, cast them off. Was really wanting a place for my text work to go and thought after the last show that the gallery space almost felt too big for my work, like I want an intimate platform. Receiving post could become like installations. I’d almost like to build up a mailing list of strangers, maybe online through email.
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A selection of posters by Canadian designer Brian Banton. From a series of 80 that interpret design and philosophy related quotes. They were produced over a two month period.
ONOMATOPEE
Between forms of representation
and interpretation
Published by Onomatopee
Artist publication on the work
of Andrés Ramírez Gaviria.
An important influence for the
artist is the Gestalt theory:
“More than the sum of its parts”.
This approach is translated into
the display font; it consists of
3 separate layers, each printed
on it’s own page. Through the
transparency of the paper the
text becomes legible.
www.onomatopee.netby Lesley Moore
Last week I shot a roll of film that I’d got free with a second hand camera. When I got back the scans I found out that the roll had already been used by the guy who gave me it and so I had double exposed it. By chance, both of us had taken a photo of a motorway landscape and this was made. His photo is from the inside of the car looking at countryside and my shot of an urban motorway is best seen on the left hand side.
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Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells
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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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.
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