Happy Mother’s Day

13 Compositions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gifs  by NY based multidisciplinary artist Yoshi Sodeoka, from the online ANI GIF exhibition titled 13 Compositions.

via prosthetic knowledge

previously: the 13th by Yoshi Sodeoka

And A And Be And Not

A foldable paravent titled And A And Be And Not, made of dichroic glass segments by German designer Camilla Richter

via dailytonic

previously: Sparkle palace table by John Foster

Space painting

 

Space paintings in LA lofts lofts all created by architect Joseph Giovannini of Giovannini Associates.

Photography “failures” – Diane Meyer

‘TIME SPENT THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE FORGOTTEN’ – cross-stitching technique & photographs

See more here

Pleasures

Music video for the track “Pleasures [FIELDS]“ by British music producer Max Cooper in collaboration with Canadian art rock band BRAIDS.
Every element of the video is handmade, scanned, then animated with a video editing software by Belgian artist / illustrator Cédric De Smedt.
More info on original post. Link to youtube video.

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HB 9of7

color pro-crastination

Cool online game, combines colour theory and gradient interface to match colours.

Play here (http://color.method.ac)

via (+gifs) prosthetic knowledge

bon appetit

While the meat-industry deliberately creates products in which you cannot recognize the animals they are made of, the toy-industry deliberately simplifies and exaggerates animal characteristics into caricature.
The Happy Meat project by Type-B combines the best of both worlds in a rather uncanny hybrid.

Found here.Link to video.

iF design talents awards 2013

Submit your project for the iF concept design award 2013, last date for registration: 10th January 2013.

 

 

nude

“Nude” photo series by New York based Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama (previously presented here) features the body of a dancer in motion combining 10,000 individual photographs.
Check similar post here. Found here.

Dragonfly

Dragonfly prints (150 x 80 cm each) by Chinese artist Zhang Huan

on telekinesis

Computer scientists at Zhejiang University in China have developed a way to fly a drone with the power of their thoughts. The team says thye technology will eventually allow people with disabilities to operate machines and live more independent lives.
Found here. Link to video.

freefall from the edge of space

some minutes ago up there…

The social biology of domiciliary cockroaches: colony structure, kin recognition and collective decisions

Interesting new findings about cockroaches from research published by French and U.S. biologists in the journal Insect Sociaux.

1. Cockroaches may be creepy to humans, but they are actually quite sophisticated social creatures and pretty friendly too.

2. Of the 4000 or so species of cockroach, only about 25 have adapted themselves to human environments. (Be thankful for that.)

3. Though not formally recognized as a eusocial insect, which is the highest level of socialization among insects, the cockroach has several attributes of those insects, including family recognition and family living arrangements with generations of the same family living together.

4. Cockroaches form close-knit egalitarian societies and make communal decisions for the greater good.

5. The termite, which is considered to be eusocial, is now known to be a direct descendant of the cockroach.

6. The main difference between eusocial (bees, ants, termites, etc.) insects and egalitarian insects like cockroaches, is that eusocial insects have a queen female that is the only female allowed to mate, whereas in egalitarian insects, any member can mate.

7. Cockroaches use their body chemicals (cuticular hydrocarbons) to communicate to others about where the best food can be found or where they can safely seek shelter for the day.

8. When forming a decision about the best place to find shelter, all members of a ‘clan’ will make the same choice. They even make the same decisions on where to get their food.

9.  Lone cockroaches are rare. Young cockroaches need to be in close contact with other young’uns to mature properly. Isolation can result in an inability to join a group later in life and in an inability to mate.  Additionally, cockroaches can become physically sick and die prematurely from isolation syndromes.

10. Cockroaches lay a trail of feces (not attractive to human olfactory senses) by which others can identify relationships – “kin recognition.”  Among other things, kin recognition keeps roaches from mating with other relatives.

Found here.