Our World: One Giant Hologram
For real:
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at [...]
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
So you know your venn diagrams from your hyperbolic trees from your gantt charts from your swim lane diagrams. Via Coudal
“Without Walls” at Museum 52
If you’re in New York, I highly recommend a swing by Museum 52, a gallery on the LES, which has a brilliant little show closing this Saturday. “Without Walls” is a group show with 52 artists—the trick being that each artist contributes a piece that fills just two cubic feet, so as to fit a [...]
Aesthetic Echo by Rafael Rozendaal
I think I stared at this spare, entrancing web animation for about thirty minutes. More fun that watching the land scroll past the car window on a long, bittersweet road trip.
Kim Keever
You might mistake Keever’s work for paintings that ironically name-check the Hudson River school. Sure, the visual references are arch—we’ve mentioned faux-pastoral work before—but the craft its surprising: These aren’t paintings. They’re actually dioramas created in a 200-gallon tank that’s then filled with water and lit in various, highly ornate ways. After the jump, more [...]
Melvin Edward Nelson
Via Accidental Mysteries:
Melvin Edward Nelson, aka M.E.N. which also stands for Mighty Eternal Nation, was born in 1908 in Michigan. Nelson, an inventor, was fascinated with the universe, planetary bodies, and atoms. He built a “Planetron” — a device that allowed him to track UFOs. One night, a UFO landed in a clearing near his [...]