千と千尋の神隠し — Spirited away ( 2001 )
(出典: fffaquarl)
Dune by Studio Roosegaarde
About the project:
Dune is a public interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology is composed of large amounts of fibers that brighten according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.
Our most recent version is filled with hundreds of interactive lights and sounds. Dune investigates nature in a futuristic relation with urban space by means of looking, walking and interacting.
In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.”
Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.
Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.
Melissa Cooke. Graphite drawings - wip.
On Tumblr: http://melissacooke.tumblr.com/
THE green (grass) wall (at Dilston Grove by Ackroyd & Harvey with Graeme Miller)
”Solar Equation” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
This large installation entitled Solar Equation is a simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing! The sphere, commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Australia, is the largest spherical balloon in the world.Using mathematical equations, Lozano-Hemmer developed a pattern of animations that are projected onto the sphere, and that never repeat. Through this simulation, the artist provides the public with a glimpse of the Sun’s unpredictable and intense atmosphere. The public can interact with the installation and affect these animations via an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad application, creating various visual experiences. It’s hard to imagine seeing such a large, burning star so gigantic and up-close.
Tumblr Monday 58 - Tumblr Artist
Julien Pacaud | negative-numbers (France) - Diamond Sea / Violet’s Pet
Julien Pacaud is a french illustrator, currently living in Le Mans, France. Before becoming an illustrator, he was, by turns : an astrophysician, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. “I hope i can someday have enough free time to devote myself to my real passion: time travel.” (cf. artist’s bio) You can find more Julien’s work on his website and what inspire him on his Tumblr. Many thanks to darksilenceinsuburbia for having introduced us Julien’s work!
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