Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.
– Neil Gaiman’s advice to young people embarking upon a career in the arts. (via explore-blog)
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You’re The Drive: Digital Data Can Now Be Stored In DNA
TPM’s Carl Franzen reports on a rather cyber-punk development in human-computer relations:
Forget saving files to flash drives and cloud servers. Now, digital information can be stored in the DNA of living organisms, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers at Stanford University in California.
A trio of scientists successfully demonstrated the ability to flip the direction of DNA molecules in sample E.coli bacteria in two directions, mimicking the “1s” and “0s” of binary code, which is at the root of all modern computer calculations.
“Essentially, if the DNA section points in one direction, it’s a zero. If it points the other way, it’s a one,” said Pakpoom Subsoontorn, a bioengineering graduate student at Stanford involved in the research, in an article on the Stanford School of Medicine website.
As a result, the researchers were able to get bacteria cells to glow either red or green under ultraviolet light, and were even able to arrange the colors to spell out specific messages in petri dishes holding the bacteria. (Photo above)
(Hear both the practical and imaginative possibilities envisioned by the inventors—check out the full story)
FJP: Woah.
(via thelearningbrain)
Photographer Rania Matar has spent the past few years documenting teenage girls’ bedrooms around the world, from the American upper class to the refugee camps of the Middle East. What emerges, collected in Matar’s A Girl and Her Room, is part James Mollison’s Where Children Sleep, part JeongMee Yoon’s Pink and Blue Projects, part something else entirely.
Bruce Munro originally conceived Field of Light in Australia in 1992. The installation was one idea that landed in Bruce’s sketch book and refused to dislodge from his mind.
Next stop: Longwood Gardens June 2012 – Oct 2012. Bruce fervently hopes to take Field of Light back to it’s roots at Uluru, Australia in Jan 2013.
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Kitchen tool art.
ちょっと笑えた。
(Source: fiftycunt, via definitelythewrongalice)
The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet.
OMG, I’m so retro!
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