“In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. I’m the godamn Batman.”
technology related sensory memories from my childhood
sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
Manually rewinding cassette tapes by spinning them around my fingers
Playing with the rubber casing of the buttons on a Walkman–pulling them away, rotating them, slipping them from side to side on the stiff posts of the buttons
The audio and visual static at the end of a videotape
The satisfying thwap-thwap-thwap as you page through a well-filled CD sleeve book
How weird and small and light the first cordless phone felt
Burning Man’s “Catacomb of Veils”, the largest sculpture burned in the 2016 event, produced a series of smoke tornadoes as it blazed. Like dust devils or fire tornadoes, these vortices are driven by hot, buoyant air rising – in this case, from the fire. As the surrounding air moves in toward the fire, any rotational motion, or vorticity, in the air is intensified due to conservation of angular momentum. That concentrates it into a vortex, which becomes visible when it picks up smoke. Simultaneously, the wind was blowing in a consistent direction, sending any new vortices generated marching downstream. You can watch even more vortices and some slow-motion footage of the burning in the full video by Mark Day. (Image credit: M. Day, source; submitted by Larry B)
Well… they 3d printed the mold to make a gypsum relief. Then they printed the design on the thermoforming plastic with heat resistant inks, warmed it up and applied a vacuum.
Alyson Mowat began her artistic endeavors as a graphic designer and then became a terrarium expert, creating magnificent botanical sculptures.
Mowat established Botanique Boutique in 2013, her own playground where she constructs aesthetically sublime sculptures. However, for her this series, Mowat’s tried to portray the short lived beauty of flowers in a unique way, collaborating with Tal Silverman. Keep reading
A Middleground 