Asobi, An Art Student Creates a Lightbulb Version of Newton’s Cradle

 

 

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Asobi, An Art Student Creates a Lightbulb Version of Newton’s Cradle

via Laughing Squid by EDW Lynch on 8/6/12

Japanese art student at Musashino Art University, Yasutoki Kariya, created the installation Asobi, a wonderful lightbulb version of Newton's Cradle, the physics toy also known as the "Executive Ball Clicker." Eleven computer programmed lights are used in this visualization of kinetic energy and it has been coined 'Edison's Cradle'. Notice that the glass bulbs do not actually touch, preventing them from breaking. Asobi is currently a nominee for the Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Designer Award 2012.

…the relay was programmed to do to create a "light bulb" collision light bulb was replaced with an iron ball collision of ball used in the experiment of the law of inertia, of light bulbs 11. Not originally supposed to look, to visualize the movement of energy, we attempted to produce impressive. That reproduces the sound of 'Kachin' should also occur in the event of a collision.

The Experiments in Motion blog created this wonderful animated gif of Asobi in action.

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The Streets, A Fun Collection of Sesame Street Inspired Illustrations

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The Streets, A Fun Collection of Sesame Street Inspired Illustrations

Artist Thomas Pastrano made a fun collection of Sesame Street inspired illustrations for his ongoing series titled The Streets. Thomas has created a total of eight characters for the series, each of which are available to purchase as 18″ x 24″ signed and numbered prints in editions of 100 from his Symbol Society website.

Stunning Photos of Body Painted Models in Nature by Jean-Paul Bourdier

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Stunning Photos of Body Painted Models in Nature by Jean-Paul Bourdier

Photographer Jean-Paul Bourdier takes stunning surreal photos of body painted people in natural settings. Bourdier has been taking the photos for the past 12 years during trips to deserts in the American West. He uses an analog camera and the vivid colors in the images are not digitally manipulated. Some of his body painting photos are assembled in his 2007 book Bodyscapes. He is currently preparing a second book, Leap into the Blue, for which he is raising funds on Kickstarter.

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Nudists on a semiconductor

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Nudists on a semiconductor

Infineon Technologies' Lim Saw Sing discovered a colony of microscopic nudists having an orgy on the surface of an integrated circuit. Of course, there is some chance, albeit small, that they aren't nudists but rather just the polyimide surface itself after being exposed to etching by reactive ions. In any case, the image took a top prize at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits.

"The Art of Failure 2012" (IEEE Spectrum)

The AIDS Memorial Quilt Goes Online in an Incredible Digital Exhibit

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt Goes Online in an Incredible Digital Exhibit

The AIDS Memorial Quilt has been made into an incredible interactive digital exhibit by Microsoft Research. The exhibit allows you to zoom in and out on the over 49,000 panels (representing over 94,000 names) of the quilt and experience it in a way that was not possible before. Microsoft Research worked with the University of Southern California and the NAMES Project Foundation to bring the quilt to the Internet and also created an online timeline of the quilt's history. According to the NAMES Project Foundation, the quilt was started in 1987 by a group of San Franciscans who wanted to memorialize people who had died from AIDS. Donations to the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt can be made online.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a bit larger than the handicrafts in your average Home Economics class. The quilt is composed of more than 6000 blocks, each of which has eight panels. In total it comprises more than 49,000 quilt panels. 49K isn't a lot when you are thinking about hard drive space but at this physical scale it is mind-shattering. The quilt is estimated to weigh more than 53 tons and if it were to ever be assembled it would cover more than 1.3 million square feet. That is more than 23 acres in. In fact, it's so big that the National Mall in Washington D.C. can't contain the quilt in its entirety for the display going on this month. Instead, it's being split up into three sections and displayed in shifts by an army of volunteers who unload each panel off a truck, unpack it, spread it on the ground and, at the end of the day fold and repack each section. While the physical impact of ...