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Christopher Butler
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Disturbing, but then again, many things that we’re used to thinking look “normal” are really ugly underneath.
Prime Time, HC
Very cool piece by Michael Oatman (Exurbia (more leisure time for artists everywhere), 2004, Michael Oatman)
via BLDGBLOG:
Called The Transcendent City, the film documents what Hardy describes as “an autonomous artificial machine that extends across the earth adapting to the natural eco-systems it encounters while deriving its energy from the renewable resources available at each particular site. The systems desire is to maintain homeostasis within itself whilst maintaining homeostasis within the greater system, Gaia. Its processes are engineered on the molecular scale by nano technologies controlled by molecular computers that monitor and analyse the environment.”
13 Hours in 10 Minutes (via)
Brainstem and spinal cord discovered in Michelangelo
Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator, published in the May Neurosurgery, may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes’ figures.
I read this book when I was ten. It was probably one of the last Bellairs books I read…that is, until I re-read a few of them as an adult.
The Secret of the Underground Room by John Bellairs was published in 1990 by Dial Books for Young Readers. Edward Gorey created the dust jacket artwork for this title.
via The Long Now:
A stunning painting of a possible future (or present depending on how you look at it)… walled cities of techno-utopia surrounded by the rest of the world living in the middle ages. Here is a link to the large version on Zilinzky’s site. (Found via Coolvibe.)
