Azuma Makoto - Frozen Pine (2011)
“The artist chose to work with bonsai trees because of their Japanese origin and history of aesthetic purposes. Bonsai trees are pruned at their branches and roots to guide the plants’ growth into visually pleasing ornaments. As a result of practices similar to this, the concept of ‘nature’ is constantly changing. Azuma’s interpretation of this man-made distortion idea involves enclosing, freezing, and stretching. The steel frame around the trees represents a sort of confinement in which nature is altered. Freezing a bonsai, leaving sharp and dense icicles to hang off its branches, or suspending it in the air, tugged at every which end by metal wiring, are obvious and more literal representations of altering the natural life of the plant. The message is how man’s actions greatly influence nature.”
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Lamp Made From A Plant, Controlled Via A Living Interface
German designer Viktor Kölbig has created a house plant/table lamp hybrid that lets you control a light using the interface of a plant.
The project is called Aura and lets you control LEDs by touching a plant or flower—it uses invisible sensors so you can touch an area of the plant and the light can be dimmed or the color changed. The plant rests in a glass vase that sits atop a milled aluminum case embedded with LED lights, which are controlled by a hidden, separate microcontroller
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Matt Berninger
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If there’s someone you absolutely miss, you might find yourself talking to them a lot in your mind, creating those fake conversations with them and you answer yourself in their voice in your head. Maybe it’s a girlfriend who dumped you or you know someone who died or that sort of thing, you adopt their personality or the memory of who they were as a means of staying close to them. People talk about spirit, but I have this idea that when we die, we’re gone. All that lives on is our memory and how we affected people, the way we changed people throughout our life. Whether you’ve had a good effect of a bad effect on people, that’s your afterlife—the people who live on after you.
Inlaid flowers across Sheikh Zayed mosque’s 183,000-square-foot marble courtyard, photograph by Dave Yoder for National Geographic.
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MIA, by Ryan McGinley, 2010
“We had to basically rig a truss for this swing; it was a major production to make sure it was safe. I tried it out. MIA might have gotten there and said, ‘I’m not doing this; this is too crazy.’ But she got on and just started swinging like it was something normal. I remember her saying, ‘If I’m going to go out, this is an awesome way to go.’”
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A fluorescent microscopic image of numerous neurons generated from human embryonic stem cells. The neuronal cell bodies with axonal projections are visible in red and the nuclei in blue.
This photo was taken in the lab of Xianmin Zeng at the Buck Institute for Age Research.
Learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research: www.cirm.ca.gov
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Chopin - Prelude, Op. 28, No.4 in E minor, as played on cello by Julian Lloyd Webber
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