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kqedscience:

“Objects take on a kind of magical quality when viewed from this unusual perspective…and that’s exactly what drove photographer Alex MacLean to get a pilot’s license and take to the sky.”

Love love love.

Short film a friend of mine produced about an innovate educational program in Chicago

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I came across this while walking to my car a couple weeks ago on the campus of the University of Alabama.  It really made my afternoon and I felt compelled to share…(filmed with iphone)

utnereader: By reappropriating a centuries-old Italian glassblowing technique historically used for the creation of goblet lids, the artist behind Fragile Studios created a perfect accessory for New Year’s Eve: an unspillable drinking glass.(via Designboom)

utnereader:

By reappropriating a centuries-old Italian glassblowing technique historically used for the creation of goblet lids, the artist behind Fragile Studios created a perfect accessory for New Year’s Eve: an unspillable drinking glass.(via Designboom)

softpyramid: Gabriel LippmannColor Photograph of the Solar Spectrum1908Lippmann process photograph“Like nearly every other 19th-century physicist, Gabriel Lippmann believed in the wave theory of light, a premise that neatly explains how light can sometimes “interfere” and produce colors. According to this theory, some of the waves that make up white light collide and cancel each other out, leaving the others to produce colors. Lippmann employed this idea to design a film that would produce color in much the same way—instead of employing pigments, his film produced color by manipulating light waves. Although physicists did not widely adopt the complicated process, it was considered of great scientific importance because it offered an elegant verification of the wave nature of light, earning Lippmann the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908.” - The Smithsonian

softpyramid:

Gabriel Lippmann
Color Photograph of the Solar Spectrum
1908
Lippmann process photograph

“Like nearly every other 19th-century physicist, Gabriel Lippmann believed in the wave theory of light, a premise that neatly explains how light can sometimes “interfere” and produce colors. According to this theory, some of the waves that make up white light collide and cancel each other out, leaving the others to produce colors. Lippmann employed this idea to design a film that would produce color in much the same way—instead of employing pigments, his film produced color by manipulating light waves. Although physicists did not widely adopt the complicated process, it was considered of great scientific importance because it offered an elegant verification of the wave nature of light, earning Lippmann the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908.” - The Smithsonian

softpyramid: Martin de Sesse y Lacasta (1751-1808) & José Mariano Mociño (1757-1820)provenant de la collection originale des illustrations botaniques et zoologiques; l’expédition espagnole de 1787-1803 d’exploration au Mexique,

softpyramid:

Martin de Sesse y Lacasta (1751-1808) & José Mariano Mociño (1757-1820)
provenant de la collection originale des illustrations botaniques et zoologiques; l’expédition espagnole de 1787-1803 d’exploration au Mexique,

scuffalong: Faulkner Neon.  Wilson NC, Dec 24. © LY Henderson

scuffalong:

Faulkner Neon.  Wilson NC, Dec 24.

© LY Henderson