Old Spice’s new internet ad continues their new age tradition of ultimate weirdness and presents an innovative new approach to being a one man band.
BONUS: if you play this through their vimeo page, you’ll get to ‘play’ Terry as well with your keyboard.
INTERNET!
So Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin‘s now project is called In The Playroom and depicts images of kids playing as kids do. The exception though? Rather than the traditional imaginary play time, these kids are re-enacting scenes from infamous events and media events in history… crazy.
Posts were going to be sporadic for this week as I’m currently down with the flu, but then I realised that most of my ‘time off’ is being spent online anyhow; so really, not much of a difference.
Did manage to spend almost all of yesterday cleaning and organising through my computer’s 8TBs of data/documents/files/images/videos/DIY pagan rituals… and you know what? I think I’ve finally found a practical application for all those hours spent playing RPG games and micromanaging the shit out of my backpack slots.
All that’s left is to sort through the one folder that I’ve been dumping image files into for the last year or so.
What’s that? Over 5,000 unordered, unlabeled images?
Yeah, I’m going the hell back to bed.
Hooking up an ipod to a squid’s nervous system, scientists observed and recorded the microscopic effects of Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane on the cephalopod’s pigmentation cells. The results are pretty damn funky.
More details can be found here: https://news.backyardbrains.com/2012/08/insane-in-the-chromatophores/ and an explanation of how it works can be found on our TED talk: https://on.ted.com/Gage
Amphipod: zoomed in from 1 milimeter to 500 nanometers
Lastly, another asshole cat…
Dave Grohl beers a fan during a show
This awesome animation by Alex Parker (whose Kepler-11 Sonata video is also excellent) illustrates the 2299 fast-transiting planets discovered to so far by the Kepler mission and their orbits to-scale around a single star.
There’s a wealth of detail in this rendering like colour/temperature correlation and the white rings representing Mercury, Venus and Earth’s orbits and that’s all elaborated on on it’s vimeo page. But all you need to know is this part of the description:
Watching in full screen + HD is recommended, so you can see even the smallest planets!
Planets. 2299 of them. Up there. And all of them were found in a really short period of time, with still so many more out there yet to discovered.
Fuck yeah, you bet I love this science stuff.
Was going to post and comment on this write up’s ‘counter-arguement’ on Curiosity’s cultural investment/benefits, but then this high resolution footage of the rover’s decent phase from the rover’s point-of-view came out and the thinking is simply: Who care? It’s still goddamn amazing enough that we’ve got a friggin’ Tank of Science on another planetary body.
UPDATE: some reddit user has interpolated the original’s images, creating a ‘smoother’ 25 fps version of the original video. Nice.