It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!
- Sensual insects by Aubrey Learner, an artist with and MFA and a BA in biology. {thanks to Jennifer O.}
- Astounding human body paintings in the series Museum Anatomy by Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector.
- The Gnome Experiment … for SCIENCE!
- File this under Inadvertently Excellent Performance Art. Jason Mattera interviews “Bono”. Sheesh. What a maroon. {thanks to Geo}
- PENGUIN CAM!
Lots more stuff!
- Squared superheroes.
- Attributing ethically: Curator’s Code.
- We all know that these toys for kids are really for adults. In fact, our boss should have this chair.
- Sarah Darkmagic is planning a new project: Prismatic Art Collection, a free library of art representing heroes of all backgrounds and putting out a call to artists. {via Ryan}
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Jacques Piccard and the Mariana Trench
{thanks to Erin}
http://youtu.be/gPU1heok3GE
from the page
Fifty-one years ago, Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and Navy oceanographer Don Walsh descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the sea’s surface. It’s the lowest point on Earth, and deeper than any human had gone before — or since.
Above is a new video chronicling the explorers’ journey, weaving animation with audio from an interview granted by Piccard in 2005, three years before his death. The interview was conducted by New York writer Victor Ozols for Esquire, but went unpublished and eventually ended up on his blog. There it was found by German design student Roman Wolter, who made the film.
“Piccard’s story has been told in encyclopedic format before, but never before like this,” wrote Ozols in an e-mail to Wired.com.
Piccard and Walsh performed their descent Jan. 23, 1960, inside the bathyscaphe Trieste — a closet-sized metal sphere joined to a giant gasoline-filled buoyancy tank, built with the assistance of Piccard’s father. Since then, only two remotely operated robots have made the journey.
source: Wired
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Copyright Math
“A Ted talk about someone who actually disassembled the mathematical claims of the RIAA and found their stats to be… lacking. Very, very funny.” {so says Melissa who foubd this gem.}
Story source: Copyright math – a quantitative reasoning master class by Rob Reid.
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Featured image is “Pheromones”, watercolor on paper, by Aubrey Learner.
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