Read moreIMUAHII AUTUMN|WINTER 2012
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Read moreIn one of his most ambitious suspended installations to date, artist Tomás Saraceno (previously) launches visitors at the K21 Staendehaus museum in Düsseldorf more than 65 feet (20 meters) above the main piazza with a taunt, multi-level web of netting. Titled In Orbit the giant interactive piece is constructed from three separate levels of safety nets accessible from various points in the museum separated by enormous PVC balls measuring almost 30 feet (8.5 meters) in diameter. The resulting aerial landscape is an interesting hybrid between science fiction, spider webs, neural pathways and cloud formations.
photo credit: Studio Saraceno & Kunstsammlung NRW
Read moreDigital Reconstructions of Hominids from the set ‘Descendenteí,’ Human Kind Lineage Project
- by Eduard Olaru
Identification:
- First row: Paranthropus boisei (KNM-ER 406)
- Second row left: Paranthropus robustus (SK 48)
- Second row right: Homo habilis (STW 53)
- Third row left: Homo rudolfensis (KNM-ER 1470)
- Third row right: Homo georgicus (D2282)
- Fourth row: Homo ergaster (SK 847)
- Fifth row left: Homo floresiensis (LB1)
- Fifth row right: Homo erectus (Sangiran 17)
- Sixth row: Homo heidelbergensis (Atapuerca, Skull 6)
- Seventh row: Homo neanderthalensis (St. Césaire)
Click through for full sequential soft tissue facial reconstruction posters from The Human Kind Lineage Project
(Source: Behance.net)
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Read moreA fish sculpture constructed from discarded plastic bottles rises out of the sand at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, summer 2012.
Read moreZXX
A font designed to be unable to be read via OCR (Optical Character Recognition):
The name ZXX comes from the Library of Congress’ Alpha-3 ISO 639-2 — codes for the representation of names of languages. ZXX is used to declare No linguistic content; Not applicable.
Free Open Type Font to open up governments.
You can find out more (and download the font yourself) at the project’s page here
“It’s an asymmetric weapon, and it’s in the hands of a billionaire psychopath”
“All the power at our disposal… We can’t find one man with a laptop.”
“Gerhardt has the resources to become invisible. He has gone to ground and we can’t find him.”
The invisible billionaire “Bond Villain” of season 1 of XIII: The Series, Rainer Gerhardt taking down the world’s infrastructure, whilst lying on a couch in an unknown location.
Call back to piece on Spartan by Matt Jones:
…the modern Bond villain (and he might have added, villains in pop culture in general) is placeless, ubiquitous, mobile. His hidden fortress is in the network, represented only by a briefcase, or perhaps even just a mobile phone.
Or a rugged laptop.
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Literal ‘walking through walls’ scene from A Good Day to Die Hard.
Call back to the BLDBLG piece on Die Hard and Lethal Theory.
(And highlight of the whole day-um awful film)
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Read moreMora’dum – the application of Terror
“Minbari rite and exercise used by the Anla’shok in the training of all Rangers.
Roughly translated into English as “the application of terror”, the rite itself is designed to test a Ranger’s ability to recognise, withstand and overcome their own fear while at the same time learning to apply terror against an adversary. The exact circumstances of the test can vary as it may be tailored to suit each individual”
From the episode Learning Curve (S05e05):
Captain Elizabeth Lochley: So, what kind of terror are we talking about here, Delenn?
Delenn: The kind that cripples; the kind that destroys. Not from without, but from within. As soon as he can stand, whether he is fully healed or not, Tennier will prepare to face his terror. Those who harmed him now have power over him. He must take back that power or he will never be whole again. We will go with him, and bring him to the point of his terror. And then, he will face it.
Captain Elizabeth Lochley: But if he isn’t fully healed, he could die in the effort.
Delenn: As Anla’shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there are no guarantees. He may lose; we cannot help him.
Captain Elizabeth Lochley: Then he will stand alone.
Delenn: At the end, Captain, we all stand alone.
Read moreSuccessful start to China’s fifth human spaceflight
Three Chinese astronauts, led by a veteran of a previous space mission, soared into orbit Tuesday to begin a 15-day voyage to China’s Tiangong 1 space lab, a flight officials say will expand the capabilities of the country’s manned space program.
The 191-foot-tall Long March 2F rocket, powered by 1.4 million pounds of thrust, lifted off at 0938 GMT (5:38 a.m. EDT; 5:38 p.m. Beijing time) from the Jiuquan space base in northwest China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Less than 10 minutes later, after a dazzling launch broadcast on Chinese state television, the 8.5-ton Shenzhou 10 capsule arrived in orbit. A few moments later, the spacecraft extended its two solar array wings to generate electricity.
These images were taken from the official CCTV broadcast of the launch, showing views from cameras from both the ground and on-board the rocket. The images show liftoff, separation of the launcher’s emergency escape tower, jettison of the Long March’s first stage and four liquid-fueled boosters, and deployment of the solar arrays.
Photo credit: CCTV/Spaceflight Now
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 