Friday, May 16, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist
One of the most well known American Abstract Expressionist and Pop artist, Robert Rauschenberg died on Monday at his home on Captiva Island in Florida at the age of 82. He will be best remembered for his love of the ordinary materials which make up our lives in the 20th and 21st centuries once saying, "you begin with the possibilities of the material." Rauschenberg first gained recognition with his famous "Combines" during the 1950s in which he explored using these found ordinary materials in conjunction with a form of loose expressionist painting, changing the context and meaning of his findings.
Comments (0)Monday, April 07, 2008
Spotlight on Morphine
The alternative rock group Morphine made a name for themselves on public and college radio during the mid-nineties with their self described "low-rock". The three piece formed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1989 and derived it's sound with an unusual combination of instruments. Lead singer Mark Sandman combined his baritone, crooner voice with a custom two string bass guitar which he played with a slide. Dana Colley, the bands co-founder primary played the baritone saxophone, sometimes combined with a soprano or tenor sax which he played simultaneously.
Comments (3)Sunday, April 06, 2008
A Telepathic Ray Gun?
What if a army had a ray gun that caused the victim to experience artificial fever and sickness? What if that gun had the ability to beam voices into the opponents head? It seems this would be a valuable tool on the battle field, and a recently declassified U.S. Army reports that our military had similar feelings. The report detailed "maturing non-lethal technologies" for the purpose of crowd control and other applications using microwaves, lasers and sound.
Comments (0)Saturday, March 22, 2008
Ztohoven and the Nuclear Bomb
In June of 2007, the award-winning Prague guerrilla artist collection, known as Ztohoven, seamlessly edited a live weather-cam broadcast to appear as though a nuclear bomb had been dropped onto the countryside at the foothills of the Krkonose Mountains. Though Czechoslovakia has a cultural tradition for hoaxing and pranking, the group known may still face 3 years in jail for "scaremongering and spreading false information".
Comments (0)Monday, March 17, 2008
Extreme Sci-Fi Technologies Considered
Anyone familiar with futurist and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku knows his ability as an educator to communicate difficult concepts through books, radio and television which inspire a lasting wonder about our universe. In his latest book entitled; Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel, Michio considers scientific approaches to science fiction's most fantastic and impossible creations.
Comments (0)Saturday, March 08, 2008
2,000,000 Times Magnification
By using elections to illuminate a specimen, electron microscopes can magnify 1000 times the resolution of microscopes that use light. The shorter wavelength of an electron beam provides far superior image resolution to the much longer light photon. This showcase of images on eAmazings.com show "10 must see election micrograph images".
Comments (0)Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Binary System May Threaten Earth
One of the stars in a binary system roughly 8,000 light years away is in the final stages of an evolution preceding a supernova. A binary system is a solar system with two stars in orbit around a center of mass. From Earth, the binary system known as WR 104 appears as a large spiral with a "tail" roughly 19 billion miles long.
Comments (0)Thursday, February 28, 2008
Shape-Shifting Robot Forms From Magnetic Swarm
US researchers are developing swarms of robots that use electromagnetic forces to cling together and form any programmable shape. Although still a distant propect, Seth Goldstein and his team at the Carnegie Mellon University are currently using computer models and groups of traditional robotics. Even these more primitive versions use electromatic forces to communicate and maneuver.
Comments (0)Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Reflecting Pool
Bill Viola is has been blazing the trail with the medium of video art for the past 35 years. He has been instrumental in establishing video as a contemporary art form and in doing so has expanding the reach of technology in modern art. His work spans from sculpture and installation to movies and theater. His work has been shown around the work and he is considered both most as a major figure of his generation.
Comments (0)Thursday, February 21, 2008
Paying Insurgents Not to Fight
According to Paul Roberts of Counterpunch, the real purpose of "the surge" was to distract the American people from a different tactic, paying the Sunnis not to attack Americans. The Bush Administration has been claiming for many years now that we are defending Iraqis from terrorists "and other extremists".
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