August 2009
13 posts
ditto didymo diatom: mire muck mud img: Haeckel
…so that’s where you went.
Declare invalid (pt.1): Cutlery.
Fashion for falcons.
Codex Seraphinianus. (See also 5793399)
Here’s one for you: cockamamie.
Library
1. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants / Home Mycology Lab (MAKE magazine)
2. Swallow Magazine (eat me daily) - A hardcover biannual food publication that combines short-form writing, interviews, bold typography, artwork, photo essays, and the obligatory nose-to-tail pig recipes. It covers everything from candy packaging to pornography to some not-well-known aspects of Scandinavian...
Polyominoes: All 369 free octominoes and the 369 cookie potential.
My hiss.
Is This. The sound from the big bang forward for the first 100 million years, way past recombination, almost up to the formation of the first stars. The graph is of the atomic gas power spectrum (green) and the cold dark matter power spectrum (purple) evolving with time. The x-axis is linear in frequency (arranged for the human range) but the y-axis is logarithmic, which for sound,...
Bridget Riley Blaze 1, 1962 Emulsion on Hardboard, 43x43 in.
When geese and ghosts fly north and south, do they move in the same groups? And with so many possibilities, how come life is only one way?
-J.K (Girl, Gun, Zigzag)
Look at you go (you are a meteor). Look at you go.
Moon Surface (Luna 9) #1, 1969. Vija Celmins. Graphite on acrylic ground on paper.
