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Vertical Grass Art

British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are creating transient, green masterpieces, by making grass grow on vertical surfaces.
this is awesome and ought to be more permanent.
Artifacial

Artifacial expression is an art and research project that investigates the computer-controlled human face as a medium for kinetic art and develops algorithms for facial choreography. Small precisely controlled electrical currents are employed to stimulate the facial muscles of a live human person into rendering involuntary expressions. As the human face is controlled by a computer instead of the brain, it can be made to perform in unexpected ways, bringing together dance and technology in the most direct way imaginable.
facial hacking with electricity
The Hole
The Hole is nearly cut off from the rest of the city, and only fragments of New York life exist, as if it was a post-apocalyptic vision of the Big Apple.
2011-08-04:







blair witch project comes to the hole, brooklyn.
Rational Discussion Chart

European Bodies

EFTA, schengen, EU, EZ visualized in a venn diagram.
DNA Sequencing Costs

faster progress than moore’s law. and here’s a bit more background:
The technology that enables reading DNA is changing very quickly. I’ve chronicled how price and productivity are each improving in a previous post; here I want to try to get at how the diversity of companies and technologies is contributing to that improvement.
2015 world capacity of dna sequencing means it would take > 4000 years to sequence all living humans. we still have a long way to go.
NYC Buildings
An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock, an illustrator originally from Australia currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
meh. i guess “some buildings in new york” didn’t sound as good.
Walking Cactus

There was a wild period — roughly 520 ma ago — when life, for no obvious reason, burst into a crazy display of weird new fantastic forms — producing creatures in shapes never seen before or since. Consider this animal, the newest fossil discovery from Jianni Liu in China. She calls it “the walking cactus.”
3D Printing Food

The second way in which SFF could benefit the professional culinary community is by enabling mass-customization in the industrial culinary sector. Today, industrial food producers rely heavily on high-throughput processes such as molding, extrusion and die-cutting. These processes, however, are not amenable to mass-customization (i.e., the use of flexible manufacturing techniques to produce custom output in a low-unit-cost fashion). Molding, extrusion and die-cutting each require substantial custom-tooling, and consequently, producing custom output for low-quantity runs is simply unfeasible. This is precisely where SFF’s inherent strengths can be leveraged: producing food with custom, complex geometries while maintaining cost-effectiveness. The cost-effectiveness is enabled by the fact that SFF does not require custom-tooling or extensive manual labor. One potential future application is custom production of edible giveaways, for example, as marketing collateral for small corporate events. Currently, the cost of custom tooling prohibits low-quantity custom production runs, but with a flexible culinary production platform like SFF, such production runs would be feasible.
from now on i will only eat monogrammed food.
We have prepared a plan to use high-spec 3D printers, 3D scanners again, they make a gummy whole body of you who do not lose the impact of the chocolate face. Please try to express the feelings of loved ones with the whole body.