Beautiful Underwater Photography by Alexander Semenov

 

 

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Beautiful Underwater Photography by Alexander Semenov

via Laughing Squid by EDW Lynch on 1/19/12

Russian photographer Alexander Semenov takes beautiful underwater photos of sea creatures. Semenov studied zoology as a college student (specifically squid brains—really) and works as a diver and project manager at the White Sea Biological Station in Russia.

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Astonishingly Detailed Diagram Self-Portraits by Minjeong An

 

 

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Astonishingly Detailed Diagram Self-Portraits by Minjeong An

via Laughing Squid by EDW Lynch on 1/12/12

South Korean artist Minjeong An created these astonishingly detailed diagram self-portraits. To see more, take a look at this gallery of Minjeong's self-portraits at 50 Watts.

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Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Plans on Turning Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant Wind Harp For 75th Anniversary

via Laughing Squid by Rusty Blazenhoff on 1/10/12

A huge two-day celebration is planned for May 2012 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. According to Leah Garchik of San Francisco Chronicle, part of the celebration will include former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart creating the "sonification" of the iconic bridge into what he calls a "giant wind harp".

Hart will use "wave forms," the sounds of the bridge moving, as captured with devices posted all over the span, inside its structures and out, as the basis for music. Drummers will play along in "musical conversation" with those sounds.

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IR SF ISS XMAS

 

 

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IR SF ISS XMAS

via Burrito Justice by Burrito Justice on 1/5/12

Via the impressive On Orbit site, behold San Francisco Bay as seen from the International Space Station in the infrared (on Christmas Eve no less):

Rotated in a more friendly fashion:

The Peninsula — El Camino Real shows up far more clearly than 101 or 280. Junipero Serra would probably be able to pick it out.

In SF, 280 and 101 barely register, but surface streets like Mission, Ocean, 19th, Geary and 3rd are clear, as are the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.  McLaren Park and Twin Peaks are easy to see — I think I can make out Bernal too.

But some of the really bright spots are odd. Is that Mission and 24th? And what's the giant white blob to the southwest of McLaren Park? Broken Record? And what's that one to the east of GGP — Nopa?

The guys on the ISS also took a nice IR shot of LA on the same pass.

 

 

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File-sharing becomes a recognized religion in Sweden

 

 

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File-sharing becomes a recognized religion in Sweden

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 1/5/12

Sweden has given official religious status to Church of Kopimism, a faith and philosophy based on file-sharing. The faith's foundational document, ""POwr, broccoli and Kopimi," is available as a .torrent file indexed on The Pirate Bay (natch). It exhorts followers to undertake 100 tasks to attain #g_d (a hashtagged, all-lower-case version of the observant Jewish tradition of writing God as "G_d").

001. Obtain the Internet.
002. Start using IRC.
003. Group and birth a site.
004. Experiment with research chemicals.
005. Design a three-step program.
006. Take a powerful stance for something positive and essential.
007. Regulate nothing.
008. Say that you have to move in two weeks, but stay for seven months. Come back a year later and do it all over again.
009. ROTFLOL.
010. Relax, you're already halfway there.
011. Just kidding.
012. Don't think outside the box. Build a box.
013. Support support.
014. Organize and go to parties and fairs.
015. Start 30–40 blogs about the same things.
016. Drain the private sector of coders, graphic artists and literati.
017. Create a prize that is awarded.
018. Express yourself often in the media, vaguely.
019. Spread all rumors.
020. Seek out and try carding, and travel by expensive trains. Don't order sushi.
021. Start a radio station.
022. Everything you use, you can copy and give an arbitrary name, whether it's a news portal, search engine or public service.
023. Buy a bus.
024. Install a MegaHAL.
025. Make sure that you are really good friends with people who can use Photoshop, HTML, databases, and the like.

As faith strictures go, these ones are actually pretty good. On the other hand, I'm not much of a believer in Gods, G_d or #g_d, so perhaps this isn't for me.

File-sharing religion goes legit in Sweden

 

 

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Obliteration Room: a stark white room with thousands of kid-placed colored dots

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Obliteration Room: a stark white room with thousands of kid-placed colored dots

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Yayoi Kusama's installation The Obliteration Room at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art started as a stark white room, and then thousands of passing children were given brightly colored dots with which to decorate it. The result is exuberant and marvellous.

(Image: Stuart Addelsee, used with permission)

This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids


(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)