Sheep + LEDs = Mona Lisa, Fireworks, et alia
Category: Art
Who knew? You take a bunch of sheep, put LEDs on them, choreograph via sheepdogs: you can paint!
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I write on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. (Find clips here.) Right now I'm writing my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which explores the hypothesis that the genetic roots some of our worst problems and traits — depresison, hyperaggression, violence, antisocial behavior — can also give rise to resilience, cooperation, empathy, and contentment. The book expands on my December 2009 Atlantic article exploring these ideas.
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years.
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Emma Livingston's photos
Category: Art
I find these photos by Emma Livingstone -- onen of 30 photographers singled out in a recent "rising photographer" story (hat tip: Kottke) -- especially fetching.
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Multimedia frisson: Great graphic renderings of news and history
Category: Digital culture
The Nieman Journalism Lab has a nice round-up of some beautifully informative and often luscious work that "visualizes" news -- that is, turns news trends (and the social concerns and changes they document) into visual representations of data, like changing maps, splats of paint, or -- a favorite -- a simple needle meter.
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Plants, steel, design, and the photos of Karl Blossfeldt
Category: Art
I love these things. They're photos of plants meant to evoke human design; but they look like photos of ironwork meant to evoke nature.
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This IS Rock-It Science: Scientists to rock out March 3, NYC
Category: Art
Well, the virus has spread! At Rock-It Science, March 3 in NYC, LeDoux and his band, the Amygdaloids (LeDoux pretty much owns the amygdala via his work on fear mechanisms) are to be joined on March 3 in NYC by other musical scientists-would-be-rock-stars, science bands, and science writers...
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Soviet Army dancres + Run DMC = invention of breakdancing
Category: Digital culture
Oh man. This is good. Via Kottke, who has other mixes as well.
Soviet Army dance ensemble + Run DMC = the invention of breakdancing in the mid-1900s.
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The mark of the man of the day
Category: Politics
Off my usual route -- but isn't Obama on everyone's today? Much to admire in the man. Seems almost too...
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More paper art - a walkable city of books
Category: Art
Why do I love paper art so much? Intersection of book, art, and (by presentation here) new media? Or is just because it's pretty? This certainly is. A video of a walk through a highly literary society.
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Design (and design blogs) that hold up well
The bloggers at the design firm Pentagram know how to write a lede: During the financially dismal 2008 holiday shopping...
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Alice pops out of the looking glass
Category: Art
Always nice when a scene just jumps off the page. Alice's tea party Birds of the open forest dawn Artist...
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