Artist Fabian Oefner captures these colorful portraits of fluid instability by dripping acrylic paints onto a metal rod, which is connected to a drill. When the drill is switched on, paint is flung away from the rod, creating these snapshots of centripetal force and surface tension. Note how droplets gather at the ends of the spiral arms like in a Plateau-Rayleigh or a rimming instability. For more, check out Oefner’s webpage, which includes a video showing how the images are made, or his previously featured work, “Millefiori”. (Photo credit: F. Oefner; submitted by Stephen D.)
Before a cell divides, it must carefully check that all of its systems are normal and operational before initiating division. Cancers are often riddled with mistakes in this machinery, allowing a cell to divide uncontrollably without first ensuring everything is “good to go.” In this Ashbya gossypii fungus, the CLN3 protein (orange, with nuclei in blue) helps initiate the commitment to cell division given that the cell correctly passes its initial checkpoint.
Image by ChangHwan Lee, Dartmouth College.
Gabriele Adami, 13 plane
Postcards From Google Earth by Clement Valla:
At first, I thought they were glitches, or errors in the algorithm, but looking closer I realized the situation was actually more interesting — these images are not glitches.
Google Earth is a database disguised as a photographic representation. These uncanny images focus our attention on that process itself, and the network of algorithms, computers, storage systems, automated cameras, maps, pilots, engineers, photographers, surveyors and map-makers that generate them.
Bloods vessels in the brain of a live zebrafish embryo.
Image by Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael R. Taylor, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Erfaan Xstaytik
Jack HardwickeJust a gentle nudge in the direction of my upcoming London exhibition at the Brick Lane Gallery. April 24th - May 6th. Message me if you would like to come to the opening on the 24th.
The stained glass work of Johan Thorn Prikker (I).
(Reblogged from freshphotons)
The Irony in a Name: Medusa Fabrication creates a most beautiful café racer. (via Triumph motorcycles / Bike EXIF)
Street Spirit - Eliza Lumley (by carlitopappas)
”The Curious Events I Don’t Tell My Mother”
16” x 20”
mixed media on illustration board
will be on sale at “Gawd Mess Amerika” show on march 17th
$150
paper marbling
fill a tray with water. blow, fan, stir, dab, and drag paint or colored ink across its surface. put a sheet of washi paper on top to stain it with the floating art.
though called “turkish” paper marbling by europeans, this design technique was developed in east asia, central asia, and the islamic world. it is an important part of turkic, tajik, indian, and other asian and middle eastern cultures.
Leonora Carrington, Illeidos (ships engendered from metallic seeds) (1965)
