state of the art in the see-through screen dept…..
link to SmashingMagazine
only because i’ve been working in and out of trees all day today …
above, General Sherman, a sequoia in Sequoia National Park in California, US. est. 2,300 years old to 2,700 years old.
Pando, colony of Quaking Aspen in Utah, US…
While Pando isn’t technically the oldest individual tree, this clonal colony of Quaking Aspen in Utah is truly ancient. The 105-acre colony is made of genetically identical trees, called stems, connected by a single root system. The “trembling giant” got its start at least 80,000 years ago, when all of our human ancestors were still living in Africa. But some estimate the woodland could be as old as 1 million years, which would mean Pando predates the earliest Homo sapiens by 800,000 years. At 6,615 tons, Pando is also the heaviest living organism on earth.
link to Wired Magazine
a collection from photographer John Byrne Cook contains vintage snips of 1960′s musicians.
pictured – Elvin Bishop & Mike Bloomfield
link
an international crew observed the total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 on Enewetak Atoll in Marshall Islands and recorded fabulous images
The display of the solar corona, lunar surface and stars in the resulting image are highly beyond the ability of human vision during the eclipse. The weakest stars visible in the image are of about magnitude 10. The stars are a little bit blurred by the motion of the Sun during the very long eclipse.
link to full size images and more…
george orwell by Kevin Nowlan
great collection of artist-contributed works of favorite authors/characters/scenes at Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!!!!
Wired.com previews a sampling of images from upcoming book and MoMA exhibition featuring artwork by filmmaker, director, producer, writer, and concept artist Tim Burton.
link to Wired article
link to MoMA page
Donald Simanek
“It may be perpetual motion, but it will take forever to test it.”
link to the Museum of Unworkable Devices
link to more from Agan Harahap at DeviantArt
