- Digital art find:
MRK/Markos Kay, a digital artist in the UK. Click around, but be sure to check out all the links at : aDiatomea and the diatoms art and videos. Don’t miss this gorgeous Victorian diatom microscopy. - Sienna Morris is the force behind Fleeting States Studios and draws by way of Numberism Art. Each piece featured has a click to explain the Numberism information. This is pure awesome! {via Surly Amy}
- Steve McCurry is the photographer responsible for “Afghan Girl”, that riveting image on the cover of National GeographicMagazine. His stunning images are collected into visual essays at his blog. Check out To Light a Fire, people around the world reading and Just Write, people writing. And this is his website.
- See an autopsy of a Mac and other iconic gadgets.
- It’s warmer than a Tauntan in here … and other hilarious restaurant signs.
- The Macmillan Dictionary is now entirely online. A wonderful feature is the blog Stories Behind Words. Do wander through the archive of Stories. It’s how I found out about wayzgoose and that’s as good a reason as any. {via @StanCarey}
- Laura Stone recaps the Game of Thrones finale: Mhysa and I’m reading it through my tears.
- The Camera Collection is a group of 100 pixelated cameras. These images are free to download as .ai, .eps and .png files.
- A real-time map of planes in skies. Wow!
- Can you tell your Crottin de Chavignol from your Idaho Goatster? Here’s an indispensable wheel of info for your next wine-and-cheese bash. My favorite cheese name? Why, Pantysgawn, of course.
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Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid
{via Surly Amy}
For more information, read Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood in Newly-Released Animated Video.
from the page
“I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I’m still frightened… Nothing changes.”
– Maurice Sendak
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James Gandolfini reads In The Night Kitchen
{via Surly Amy}
For more information, read Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood in Newly-Released Animated Video.
from the page
James Gandolfini reading In The Night Kitchen at Maurice Sendak’s 80th Birthday tribute at the 92nd St. Y in New York (September 15, 2008).
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MRK’s stunning
aDiatomea
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*The full length aDiatomea video as exhibited at Haeckel’s Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany.
more information at aDiatomea
posters
more pictures and prints at MRK’s flickr site/
aDiatomea is an artificial life system that uses various methods and notions of a-life research. The basic principle of aDiatomea is that every aspect of it is entirely mathematically generated and thus it is not created purposefully as an art piece but as a complex system that takes a life of its own. These artificial organisms are based on actual unicellular organisms known as Diatoms. These beautiful microscopic creatures are constructed using the superformula, an equation that can reproduce organic forms. Granular sound is injected in these organisms, acting as their life-force, while they interact with each other and their environment. This film shows a recording of 36 seconds of evolution in 5 different colonies of artificial diatoms, pushing the boundaries of complex computer calculations.
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Featured image is a Sphaeroidea outtake by MRK.
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