Shrinky-Dink Microfluidics
“To test her idea, she whipped up a channel design in AutoCAD, printed it out on Shrinky Dink material using a laser printer, and stuck the result in a toaster oven. As the plastic shrank, the ink particles on its surface clumped together, forming tiny ridges. That was exactly the effect Khine wanted. When she poured a flexible polymer known as PDMS onto the surface of the cooled Shrinky Dink, the ink ridges created tiny channels in the surface of the polymer as it hardened. She pulled the PDMS away from the Shrinky Dink mold, and voilà: a finished microfluidic device that cost less than a fast-food meal.”
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light video
As nightmares go, it’s pretty gorgeous. NSFW for sex, violence, heavy archetypal references, hypnotism, wacky crucifixions, clowns, and frickin’ lasers. Look for the album cover reference!
I really want to know how you storyboard something like this.
Sen. Bernie Sanders Talks for 8 Hours to Protest Tax-Cut Deal
bernie sanders is my favorite socialist this weekend. this really was just a gesture, though, right?
“ In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark tundra to offer Santa cash for his services, acknowledging at last that his genius makes the gifts — and therefore Christmas — possible. ”
The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time « Whatever
“Florian Freier loves Gursky. He could never afford one. So he recreated one of the master’s most famous works, Bahrain I, which depicts a racetrack and looks like an abstract painting, using only Photoshop and Google Earth.” (via Using Google Earth to Recreate a $1,000,000 Masterpiece, for About $0 | Fast Company)
So wait, hold on. The copyright issue here is interesting, to say the least. Let’s apply US law, ignoring that all of these people probably live somewhere else. Does someone hold copyright on satellite images? Why is it possible to hold copyright on satellite images? They’re a mechanistic reproduction of an uncopyrightable subject (i.e. the planet), which I thought shouldn’t generate a copyright.
And doesn’t this final image still violate Gursky’s copyright? I don’t see that it matters whether the copy occurs because you stole his image or flew out there and took a new, identical, photo yourself or put it on the Xerox; the point here is to exactly reproduce the artistic decisions that Gursky made while capturing the photo, which is why the photograph is copyrightable. You still just made an almost exact copy. Why does it matter how you made it?
But I’m not a lawyer. Maybe you are?
(Source: flachware.de)
Holy shit this is the stuff of fucking nightmares
Otouto - Sushi
The rain makes a sound like there’s someone else, in the house…
I kind of maybe have a crush on this surprising and slightly infectious pop-art band (the name of which is incidentally pronounced “oh-toe-ooh-toe”). Aussie sisters Hazel and Martha Brown take guitar and keyboard duties with Kishore Ryan on the drums, who incidentally plays just fine with one arm in a sling.
Martha apparently saw Canadian money for the first time when I bought their album at the Biltmore a couple weeks ago. I had to help her make change. My cold indie heart melted a little. <3
Currently on tour with CFTPA; Boston types are encouraged to catch them in Cambridge at TT’s on the 13th. Be sure to check out the MB Hugcase, Martha’s keyboard programmed with vocal samples — go listen to “Spot” on their MySpace page (linked) for a hit!
(Source: myspace.com)
It’s essay-writin’ time.
A Year in <S>Provence</s> Earlysville
- Mom: country life is getting old
- Mom: freaking tree fell on our well
- Mom: why do i even have a well?
