Daniel Carlsten

Tim Sanders

Microscopic photographs of two full rotations of the grooves within three different genres of vinyl records. The grooves have been increased in scale from their original scale by 100. This allows the viewer to see and understand how audio is translated when pressed into a vinyl record. The patterns of grooves are explained and compared between genres of music.

Volcanados?

These volcanic water spouts spun off Kilauea volcano's eruption cloud during a 2008 blast. More than just a pillar of smoke, eruption clouds are, themselves, cyclonic, spinning around a vertical axis and mimicking some behavior patterns usually seen in storm cells, including the ability to give birth to smaller cyclones, water spouts and dust devils.

This photo was taken by Stephen & Donna O'Meara and is part of the Extreme Exposures exhibit running at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, starting October 23.

Via Bad Astronomy

No Panda

Bubblehead

Nerd Alert - Apollo 11 in HD

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

Apollo 11 First Steps on the Moon from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

The Letter

Joe Cocker & Leon Russell - The Letter
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Richard Wilson 20:50

The gallery is filled to waist height with recycled engine oil, from which the piece takes its name. A walk way leads from a single entrance, leading the viewer into the space until they are surrounded by oil on all sides. The impenetrable, reflective surface of the oil mirrors the architecture of the room exactly, placing the viewer at the mid-point of a symmetrical visual plane.

This has to be one of the most incredible works of contemporary art I know of.

Dane Lovett

Gunther Forg

»Die Trilogie der Tatzen«, 2008 by Günther Förg.

Christian Egger

“O.T. [Untitled] (why be something that you are not, when I can be something what you like…)”, 2010 by Christian Egger.

David Bowden

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Growth rendering device
This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device by growing. The device in-turn reacts to the plant by producing a rasterized inkjet drawing of the plant every twenty-four hours. After a new drawing is produced the system scrolls the roll of paper approximately four inches so a new drawing can be produced during the next cycle. This system is allowed to run indefinitely and the final outcome is not predetermined.

72 stems
72 stems is an installation that responds to the airflow in a space and the presence of people by emitting chirping sounds. The device uses 72 dried Queen Annís Lace stalks to detect subtle changes in airflow created by movement throughout a space. The stalks are connected to a device, which was programmed to chirp when a movement is detected. As the activity and movement in the space increases the chirping becomes more intense and the cumulative sound begins to layer and become more complex. When the movement ceases, the stems slow down and eventually stop their chirping chorus and await their next stimulation.

Pin hole camera DJ

Hungover owls

Robot Lobster?

Maker Jim Henson in 1969: HOWTO make a puppet

Paradox Box

PHANTOM PAYN DAYS - Paradox Box from Tara Sinn on Vimeo.

Dustin Wong - Infinite Love preview from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

CSLSX - We Ought To Be Together from CSLSX on Vimeo.

Mathemagic - Breaststroke from EyeBodega on Vimeo.

STELLAR OM SOURCE "ISLAND BEST" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

Fuck You

How to dress well

How To Dress Well - "Ready for the World" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

Here’s a new clip from master found-footage manipulator Jamie Harley, in which he perfectly aligns some unidentified, vaguely creepy images with the blurry, unsettling vibe of How To Dress Well’s “Ready For the World”

Inside our world

Dope art

This beautiful micrograph shows crystals of dopamine - the chemical released when we do naturally rewarding things like eating and procreating. Dopamine also affects brain processes involved in controlling movement, mood and memory.

Spike Walker, last night's winner of the Royal Photographic Society's Combined Royal Colleges Medal, produced this image by passing polarised light through dopamine crystals. How the crystals refract the light varies depending on their orientation within the sample, causing them to reflect light at different wavelengths. Using this technique highlights more detail in the crystal structure than regular observation through a microscope.

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