Eyescapes is a series by Rankin, an incredible photographer that has represented a vast array...

Chondrophore or Porpita porpita is a gelatinous Cnidarians superficially resembling...

Long ago... No one tore the ground with ploughshares or parcelled out the land or swept the sea...

In the early 1900s, the newspapers in America used data visualization and cartogram techniques to...

The word bullseye can also refer to any design or pattern featuring prominent concentric circles,...

Adam GazdalskiHarry G. Frankfurt’s ‘Freedom of Will and the Concept of a Person’ and it’s applications to Free Will Harry G. Frankfurt believes that people are more than just a specific species with a genetic code that determines what it is to be a person. Rather he believes that a complex system of wills and desires is the...

Due 9 January 2008 1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating. 2. Search for and find an image within the context of the Space Collective that has not been posted. Research both images and verbally present your findings in class on the 9th. When you get your Space Collective account, make this information your...

Lesser of the Evils: Utilitarianism Adam J. Gazdalski 2005' The basis of this paper is a comparative analysis of three major views on ‘punishment’ in our society, as well as the defense of what I believe is the most rational and practical of the three. Which is Utilitarianism. The sides of Jeremy Bentham, Herbert...

CONTEXT + Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly + Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds by Mitchel Resnick + Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson + The Computational Beauty of Nature:...

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This is a still life I did for a watercolor course. It is titled "Still Life" and...

Adam Gazdalski - Triptych Theory of Art 2006' The problem presented in this paper is not, “what is art?” but rather, try to give more supportive ground consisting of opposing viewpoints by asking, “Why is it we argue over it’s use?” By taking an empirical-outsider’s perspective to the problem we can see three general values of art...

I had a strange feeling today while at my day job. I happen to work alongside a friend of mine whom I was seeing in the past. However, things turned rocky, and we went our separate ways about two months ago. I hadn't been working since around the beginning of December, as I was placed on medical leave. Today was third day back, and the first...

DESMA 152A/252A: Programming Media I UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts Professor C.E.B. Reas TA Aaron Siegel Time: Monday & Wednesday 9:00–12:00 Location: Broad Art Center, 4220 This course is a continued introduction to creating images and interaction within the context of software. Each student’s foundation in basic...

Titan Descent w/Bells and Whistles from imunderpressure on Vimeo. If I was a child, this...

The choice of responsibility “Natural selection won’t matter soon, not anywhere near as much...

[UPDATE: Part II has now been posted.] I have some ideas in need of coalescence, in need of the...

This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As...

Here is an interesting introduction to the history of the concept of accelerating change, found...

The most profound enlightening and positive realization I have ever had concerns the fact that the...

To pry from the cold dead hands of chaos the first animalcules of “the hundred-gated...

In our future there should be no more masses and no more herding, only free thinkers and reasoning opposers. There is only one stance that threatens the ascent of man, and that is ignorance...and what is infinately worse, collective ignorance. I think we are witnessing a major backlash of religious fundamentalism in Western society today,...

Have a green thumb? Want to spread the love and plant some yummy-licious fruit, green...

Asch conformity experiments

I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

If the day ever comes, there would be countless designers out of the tee shirt business.

I'm proud to congrats you the New Year with a very national video. Those were the last moments of...

io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade...

The following article is long and quite condensed; I have therefore divided it into five posts I...

Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal...

A reversed-polarity sunspot was detected today, marking solar minimum and the beginning of the 24th solar cycle (since humans first recorded the undulating pattern of solar intensity nearly 400 years ago).Solar cycles appear to last on average about 11 years, taking a few years to rise and fall between the peaks and troughs of solar activity. The...

Wrote this back in my sophomore year. In gym class, no less. My rendition of what it feels like to find someone, then lose them. *ahem* I stared into the abyss of your eyes Trying to see past the pretty face Into a world where parallel lines Intersected into infinity, where the Impossible happened.... The impossible being me...