Mad Quickies: Glass Cells, Wire Maps, Clumsy Robots, Breathtaking Spacescape Video and More!
Hello, hello! Don’t look now, but a new week is upon us. Let me make this a little easier on the eyes with these groovy Quickies. To begin…
- Inspired by cell division, artist Jiyong Lee creates translucent glass sculptures. {via Neil H.}
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the 2014 Nebula Awards Winners. Listed are the winners and the nominees
- Sculptor Alyson Shotz uses wire, beads and metal to create isomorphic map tables. “Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature” is currently showing at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in South Carolina. The installation is coming to Philadelphia and I am so there!
- An astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dr. Mario Livio talks about the relationship between science, art, and culture. Film shorts included.
- The Why Files at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the winners of their 2015 Cool Science Image Contest from faculty, fellows, staff and students. Cool slideshow of diverse subjects.
- Tasha Sturm of Cabrillo College captured a gorgeous petri dish handprint from her 8-year-old son after he was playing outside.
- I know this supposed to be funny but it kinda makes me sad. It’s a compilation of Anthropomorphic Robots Falling Over at the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
- Retail find: You say you’d like a fire pit that looks like the vessel for a Viking funeral? Then, Trevor McIntyre has just the fire pit you seek.
- Determine what goes in place of the question mark. The answer to this riddle is not “6”.
- Laura Stone delivers her recap of Game of Thrones 5.9 – The Dance Of Dragons and it’s a doozy! Seriously, stop what you’re doing and read her awesome words.
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A short film by Erik Wernquist
Wanderers
Although the Bad Astronomer had posted about this short film last year, I rewatched this short and think you might want to see it, too. Frankly, Carl Sagan was the most compelling narrator and I never tire of hearing his voice.
from the page
Wanderers is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available.
Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds – and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.
[More information and credits at Vimeo.]
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Featured image is an excerpt from “Monarch, Reflection” by Rafael Araujo, a 17″ x 12″ archival giclee print.
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