// Quasi- Objects, C studies, Lorenzo Oggiano, 2010- 2011  via liam-young

/// Jamie Woon, Lady Luck (video by Vincent Haycock)

/// Maud Traon, Spiky black ring

iceblack:

Lina Peterson

“… The “New Aesthetic” is a native product of modern network culture. It’s from London, but it was born digital, on the Internet. The New Aesthetic is a “theory object” and a “shareable concept …”

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/

Oceanic Nekton

“Ein Schwarm Atlantischer Heringe (Clupea Harengus) auf Wanderung zu den Laichplaetzen an der Ostsee. Die hohe Geschwindigkeit kann ueber mehrere Tausend Kilometer durchgehalten werden. Einige Wissenschaftler sind der Meinung, dass die Fortbewegung in geschlossenen Gruppen eine Verringerung des Energieverbrauchs bewirkt.”

Imagery by Wikipedia user Kils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kils)

Dark Spore, acrylic paint, polystyrene, 790 x 930 x 810 mm, by Rohan Wealleans, 2007 [via iceblack]

Date unknown

Overstocked with a large supply of men’s spring and winter coats, a clothier in Copenhagen, Denmark, adopted a unique sales scheme. He erected a scaffolding around his store building and completely covered it from roof to sidewalk with more than a thousand overcoats. The novel display attracted prospective customers in such droves that police were summoned. Although the police ordered the proprietor to remove the display, he succeeded in selling all the overcoats.

/// Yellow Heart, Haus Rucker Co., 1968

Re-blogged Liam Young (unknown source)

(Source: liam-young)

/// Traubenkirschen Gespinstmotte

/// Nanofibres like silk worm silk, spider silk and collagen, Nanotechweb, 2007

/// Worms on special diet make fluorescent silk, New Scientist 16/03/2011

/// Défilé Christophe Lemaire, Spring Summer 2011

/// St. Patrick’s Day quirkiness, 2011