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lonelycoast:

kravblaga — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:10:11 -0700

lonelycoast:

lego-land: Lego Michelangelo

kravblaga — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:25:58 -0700

lego-land:

Lego Michelangelo

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: The acoustic signatures of many animals...

kravblaga — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:54:41 -0700

The call of the white beaked dolphin represented by wavelet transform.

The humpback whale's call, represented by wavelet transform.

The Northern cardinal's call represented by wavelet transform.

A Northern minke whale's call represented by wavelet transform.

The chirping of crickets represented by wavelet transform.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

The acoustic signatures of many animals contain features we humans cannot appreciate, given the limited range of frequencies we can hear. In fluid dynamics and many other fields, scientists and engineers have to find ways to analyze and decompose time-series data—like acoustic pressure signals—into useful quantities. Mark Fischer uses one tool for such analysis, a wavelet transform, to turn the calls of whales, birds, and insects into the colorful snapshots seen here. Wavelet transforms are somewhat similar to Fourier transforms but represent a signal with a series of wavelets rather than sinusoids. They’re also widely used for data compression. (Image credits: M. Fischer/Aguasonic Acoustics; via DailyMail)

This shit always flips my brain. I love this kind of visualization.

Pixels and Poetry

kravblaga — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:18:54 -0700

fieldstudy: This was written for the forward of Kern and Burn, a Kickstarter funded book of...

shethtilldeth: Probably one of my favorite posts on this site...

kravblaga — Wed, 08 May 2013 01:24:08 -0700

shethtilldeth:

Probably one of my favorite posts on this site ever.

i’m feeling nostalgic for Richard Keyes Color Theory class.

comedycentral: This was magical. If you ever needed a reason to...

kravblaga — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:15:19 -0700

comedycentral:

This was magical.

If you ever needed a reason to follow @TheDailyShow, this is it.

Here’s the original segment, in case you missed it.

holy shit—Daily Show WIN!

wicked-naughty-diva: Practice, practice, practice.

kravblaga — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:13:27 -0700

wicked-naughty-diva:

Practice, practice, practice.

typethatilike: Calligraphy on girls nfgraphics.com...

kravblaga — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:13:12 -0700

typethatilike:

Calligraphy on girls

nfgraphics.com - (NSFW)

Omg-absolutely beautiful. Modern day henna?

ianbrooks: A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle...

kravblaga — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:05:36 -0700

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales

The math: 2,600 matchsticks, 720 minutes to create, and 1 minute of fiery immolation to undo it all; Charlotte’s typographic matchstick design is a testament to the creative and sometimes destructive power of imagination.

Artist: Behance / Website / Tumblr

simongoode: Art & Leisure and Art & Leisure, Dante...

kravblaga — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:38:08 -0700

simongoode:

Art & Leisure and Art & Leisure, Dante Carlos

24 May – 11 July 2013, London Centre for Book Arts

Art & Leisure and Art & Leisure presents work by Dante Carlos in his first show in the UK.

The exhibition centres on a limited-edition book produced by the artist in collaboration with LCBA, which uses the form and function of a calendar consisting only of Saturdays and Sundays. Art & Leisure… is a book that becomes an exhibition, a proposition, a utopia, and a joke. In a social climate where the simple act of taking time ‘off the clock’ and doing something without intrinsic market—but human—value, becomes something unintentionally quixotic, Art & Leisure… re-imagines our relationship to time, labour and art practices.

Raised in California, Carlos is a graphic designer based in Minneapolis. In addition to his own practice, he has been senior designer at the Walker Art Center since 2009. As with his work at the Walker and with collaborators—from furniture and landscape designers ROLU to his sister Debbie Carlos, a Michigan-based artist/photographer—Carlos uses graphics, a wink and a nudge and an economy of means to create visual entry points into different types of knowledge: from maths to dance, language to science and music, or as he puts it, “from Peach Snapple to downtown beef, and everything in-between.”

If you’re in the UK, go see this. This man is genius.

dr-atomics-nerd-factory: Dave Gibbons interview with Liam...

kravblaga — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:25:25 -0700

dr-atomics-nerd-factory:

Dave Gibbons interview with Liam Sharp…

The hottest thing in digital comics right now.

kaajoo: World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places Italian product...

kravblaga — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:35:48 -0700

kaajoo:

World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places

Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.

flower exposed to radiation from Fukushima nuclear facility...

kravblaga — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:32:03 -0700

flower exposed to radiation from Fukushima nuclear facility Japan

Radiation will do some fucked up shit.

lonelycoast: alexiorsay: I came downstairs and thought my...

kravblaga — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:19:57 -0700

lonelycoast:

alexiorsay:

I came downstairs and thought my dog’s leg had fallen off or something (it’s part of an old dog toy).

ha! That would freak me the fuck out.

Optical Illusions

ikenbot: When Supermassive Supergiants Go Superboom Article by...

kravblaga — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:14:06 -0700

ikenbot:

When Supermassive Supergiants Go Superboom

Article by Phil Plait via Slate

I have long been fascinated by gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs). These are incredibly violent events: It’s like taking the Sun’s entire lifetime energy output and cramming into a single event that lasts for mere seconds! The energy emitted is so intense, so bright, we can see GRBs from a distance of billions of light years.

Gamma rays themselves are just a form of light, like the kind we see, but with huge energy; each photon is packed with millions or billions of times the energy in a single photon of visible light. Only the most energetic events in the Universe can make them, so if we detect a burst of them coming from the sky, we know something literally disastrous has happened.

We know GRBs come in many flavors. Some last literally for milliseconds, while others stretch on for minutes. We also know different events can cause them, too. Short ones seem to come from merging neutron stars, ultra dense compact objects left over after stars explode. The longer ones occur when massive stars explode, leaving their cores to collapse. In both cases, the huge blast of high-energy gamma rays signals the birth of a black hole.

But astronomers were recently surprised to find a third type of GRB, one that lasts not for minutes, but for hours. Whatever these objects are, they don’t just flash with light, they linger, blasting out far, far more gamma rays for far, far longer than was previously thought. What could do such a thing?

Several ideas were put forth, but new observations provided the linchpin: an ultra-long-duration GRB occurred on Christmas Day in 2010, and its distance was found to be a soul-crushing 7 billion light years away, about halfway across the visible Universe! This left only one possible candidate for the progenitor: a hugely massive star, one so big it dwarfs the Sun into insignificance.

Continue to Full Article..

HOLY FUCK!
—read this and prepare to have your mind blown—

awesomephilia: I think it’s sad that these women feel so alone...

kravblaga — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:43:49 -0700

awesomephilia:

I think it’s sad that these women feel so alone that they need to photoshop men into their lives [via]

ianbrooks: Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier Sandra’s...

kravblaga — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:35:44 -0700

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Painted Pulp Papier by Sandra Chevrier

Sandra’s process begins with beautifully evocative female portraits, which she then smothers with torn out comic books pages, the penetratingly deep gaze of her make-believe models forever bound and silenced by the iconic fantasy heroes meant to empower them.

Artist: Website (via: Hi*Fructose)

picapixels: Mantis - Hexapod Walking Machine Tests 2012 DOC...

kravblaga — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:17:09 -0700

picapixels:

Mantis - Hexapod Walking Machine Tests 2012

DOC OC! IT’S ALIVE!!!

dr-atomics-nerd-factory: Mono

kravblaga — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:52:39 -0700

dr-atomics-nerd-factory: Mono

rhamphotheca: underthevastblueseas: Underwater Rivers? A group...

kravblaga — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:12:07 -0700

rhamphotheca:

underthevastblueseas: Underwater Rivers?

A group of amateur cave explorers discovered a river in Mexico with banks, trees and leaves just like an ordinary river, but with an additional metric shit ton of “WTF,” because they were hovering 25 feet over it in scuba gear when they discovered it.

While underwater water doesn’t seem possible, the “river” is actually a briny mix of salt water and hydrogen sulfide. It’s much more dense than regular salt water, so it sinks to the bottom and forms a distinct separation that acts and flows like a river.

Deep sea lakes look like normal lakes, complete with sandy and rocky shores. Scientist call these lakes “cold seeps,” but they’re a hotbed for life, because apparently waterfront real estate is a hot commodity under water, too. The “rocky” shores are actually made up of hundreds of thousands of mussels. Even weirder, the lakes under the waves have waves of their own.

Photos by Anatoly Beloshchin,source,

This just gave me a brain-job.