…And Your Little Cat, Too
How does a “semi internet famous cat” named Captain Pancakes violate Facebook’s terms of service? When he happens to be owned by a photographer who uses Facebook to promote her work.
Cat Wine Tasting: It Happened to Us
This post was a collaboration between Julia Burke and Jamie Bernstein Have you ever sipped wine while stroking your cat and thought to yourself, “I wish my cat could share this wine with me?” No? File this one under “potential signs of the Apocalypse” or “stuff white people like,” but …
Raw Space Image Editing for Dummies
Join me in my labors as I try to teach myself how to grab raw images from NASA or some other generous space agency and edit them into hopefully glorious megafiles for printing. I make a lot of space themed art. I’ve seen other artists doing very cool things with …
I Am an Award Winning Science Photographer!
I have been waiting years to say that and now it’s true! Well mostly true. I won a gift card and got published! I won best chemistry photo for the month of May in Chemistry and Engineering News aka c&en! WOOT. My photo was of strawberry DNA extraction and I …
Mad Art Cast with Jamie Bernstein and Show Me Your Ugly Things Debut
Welcome to a fabulous episode of Mad Art Cast- NOW with bonus content! In this episode we are joined by photographer and data analysis expert, Jamie Bernstein. Jamie comes on the show to talk with us about what it’s like having photographs stolen on the web and how she responds …
Can you make a blacklight with your phone and markers?
Somewhere on the internet, whether it were Tumblr, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Pinterest or… you know just somewhere, I saw this little post about turning your phone camera into a black light. I know, I know, I thought the same thing. “That’s not how blacklights work.” You can’t just …
KV 265’s Cosmic Convergence of Science and Culture
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing a dazzling night of music and astronomy films by Jose Francisco Salgado in collaboration with the Chicago Sinfonietta. I had seen clips of his memeworthy films from time to time on social media. It is impossible for Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy and other …
No Longer Food Friday: Moldy Bread.
Look, I know that it is called Food Friday, and that we are expected to write posts that have some delicious aspect to them; but I’m going to go in a slightly different direction this week. A while ago, I bought some individual bread loaves (because they are cheap and …