Article: Peter Paul Biro, fingerprints, and a lost Leonardo : The New Yorker

[Fascinating. -egg]

Peter Paul Biro, fingerprints, and a lost Leonardo : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all

(via Instapaper)

Sugar ad: your diet is depriving your kids of vital sugar!

[WTF. -egg]
Sugar ad: your diet is depriving your kids of vital sugar!:


Here's an undated ad from "Sugar Information, Inc" (our old friends), warning mothers that if they include their kids in their sugar-free, dieting lifestyles, they will be depriving the poor kiddlees of vital sugar and exposing them to "exhaustion." Obviously, this was before the cancer scares and other stuff about artificial sweeteners, because surely that's the major reason to keep your kids away from artificial sweeteners. I love the fact that they recommend sugar for dieters, too: "gives you the va-va-voom you need for all those exercises!"


Sugar!

Rainbow Origami Street Art by Mademoiselle Maurice

Rainbow Origami Street Art by Mademoiselle Maurice:








Some fresh new street art out of Paris today by french artist Mademoiselle Maurice who creates stunning geometric figures on urban surfaces using rainbows of folded origami figures. If you like this, don’t miss these paper geodes by Paige Smith.

Ballerina by Banksy

Ballerina by Banksy:

Banksy recently updated his website with a number of new works that have been making the rounds the last day or so. My favorite new artwork is this simple piece depicting a spray-painted ballerina delicately traversing the string on the back of a picture frame like a tight rope. What fun and thoughtful execution.
Also, a number of people emailed and tweeted me a few weeks ago suggesting that the origami bird I posted was not actually done by Banksy because it wasn’t his “style”. Well, case: rested. (via the fox is black)

Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster

[OMG this is gorgeous. I particularly like that it combines classic SanFran psychedelic flyers with a really punk rock spirit. -egg]

Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster:


Hugh sez, "San Francisco muralista Mona Caron has created a stunning to poster to mark the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass in San Francisco this September."

Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Bike Angel Poster by Mona Caron

(Thanks, hughillustration!)

First Contact

First Contact:

There’s nothing like the awe of a child encountering a new life form, but in this fantastic shot by Christopher of CMGW Photography it looks like the feeling radiating from this enormous old manatee might be mutual. (via stellar)

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing:

Article: Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong - Ross Andersen - Health - The Atlantic

[Thoughtful. -egg]

Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong - Ross Andersen - Health - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/radical-life-extension-is-already-here-but-were-doing-it-wrong/257383/?google_editors_picks=true

(via Instapaper)

Spoiler: Indie after-the-zombies movie

Spoiler: Indie after-the-zombies movie:


Spoiler is an independently produced 17-minute horror/science fiction movie that illuminates the kinds of cold equations that have to be solved in pandemic outbreaks. In this case, it's the story of the coroners who keep the zombie plague under control after it's been beaten back. It's a good twist on the traditional zombie movie, and hits a sweet spot of sorrow and horror that you get with the best zombie stories.

The zombie apocalypse happened -- and we won.

But though society has recovered, the threat of infection is always there -- and Los Angeles coroner Tommy Rossman is the man they call when things go wrong.

Spoiler

(Thanks, Ben!)

Video profile: Richard Birkett, maker of curious clocks

Video profile: Richard Birkett, maker of curious clocks:


Richard Birkett, who I first posted about in 2010, creates bizarre clock assemblages. "Magnifying flaws is one of the main things that these clocks do."

Photo or painting?

Photo or painting?:


This is not a painting, it's a photograph. "Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia" by Frans Lanting/National Geographic. (via Juxtapoz)

#839; Doug is Bad at Small Talk

#839; Doug is Bad at Small Talk:

Furniture made by pouring molten aluminum over wood

Furniture made by pouring molten aluminum over wood:



Hilla Shamia creates beautiful, weird furniture by placing logs inside molds and filling them with molten aluminum: "The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional value by preservation of the natural form of the tree trunk, within explicit boundaries. The general, squared form intensifies the artificial feeling, and at the same time keeps the memory of the material." [via Design Milk]

A Softer World

A Softer World:

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