ITEOTA behind the scenes

Another way of visualizing Penrose Triangle, complementary to that published two weeks ago:

Explosive Field Paintings Capture the Sun’s Brilliance http://ift.tt/1WC7tEw

Music Construction Machine

Public interactive installation by @royrobotiks plays a variety of musical instruments when you turn a crank:

The Music Construction Machine is a large, public, generative music box, which people can operate via a big hand crank. Rotating the crank moves various mechanisms inside the giant box,  producing ever-changing melodies and rhythmic patterns, played with an electric guitar, a keyboard and a drum set. As the machine is contained in a transparent glass pavillon, people can observe and contemplate on its inner workings while cranking.

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Every photo of fireworks looks pretty much the same—a burst of color against a dark sky. There’s nothing at all original about it. That’s what Damion Berger thought, too.

Berger figured a photograph he took of the fireworks display would be a throwaway pic, but when he saw the negatives, inspiration struck. “Black and white generally casts a nostalgic tone, but in the negative it’s electric, vibrant, modern and unfamiliar,” he says.

Suddenly, a tired genre was new again. Berger has photographed dozens of fireworks shows from San Francisco to Paris to Dubai for his ongoing series Black Powder.

MORE. The Most Stunning Photos of Fireworks Don’t Have a Lick of Color

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on STS-135, the Final Flight of the Space Shuttle Program, 7/08/2011

STS-135 - LAUNCH

File Unit: STS135 LAUNCH AND LANDING, 7/25/2005 - 7/21/2011. Series: Space Shuttle Engineering Digital Photographs of Launchings and Landings, 7/25/2005 - 7/21/2011. Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1903 - 2006

Five years ago on July 8, 2011 @nasa‘s Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on the final mission of the Shuttle program, STS-135.

Find more photos from this historic mission in the @usnatarchives Catalog:

File Unit: STS 135 Launch and Landing (Series: Space Shuttle Engineering Digital Photographs of Launchings and Landings)

File Unit: STS-135  (Series: Mission Photographs Taken During the Space Shuttle Program) 

Search all holdings in the NASA Record Group for records on STS-135 

Gifs by Jaime Martinez inspired by ‘70s and '60s aesthetics. 

Roman Laurent and the GIF.

Villa Lena fox

Photo by Francois Villevieille

grown structures

Pierre Abensur made some 70 portraits of hunters and their quarry for Subjective Trophies, an uncomfortable and unusual survey of game hunting around the world. As strange as it might be seeing, say, a wolfskin on someone’s floor, it’s stranger still to see it in the forest where it once lived.

Abensur wanted to replicate the elegant look of 19th century paintings showing the wealthy on a hunt, so he asked his friends to pose in their finest on the very spot where they killed the animal.

MORE. How Charming: Exotic Animals—And the People Who Killed Them

A Synthetic Biologist’s Beautiful Palette of Bacteria Art http://ift.tt/1WNGhmR

Tech Companies Mull Storing Data in DNA

“It was the looming sense of crisis that brought them together. In late April, technologists from IBM, Intel, and Microsoft joined an intimate gathering of computer scientists and geneticists to discuss the big problem with big data: Our data storage requirements are rapidly exceeding the capacity of today’s best storage technologies: magnetic tape, disk drives, and flash memory.

The closed-door meeting in Arlington, Va., was convened to explore the potential of a new storage technology that is actually as old as life itself. The experts came together to weigh the merits of DNA data storage, which makes use of the marvelously compact and durable DNA molecules that encode genetic information inside living things. By converting digital files into biological material, warehouse-size storage facilities could theoretically be replaced by diminutive test tubes.

While this idea has been kicking around for many years, meeting attendee Victor Zhirnov says tech companies are now starting to consider DNA data storage as a real possibility. Zhirnov, director of cross-disciplinary research and special projects for the Semiconductor Research Corp. (which cosponsored the meeting), says he was encouraged by the presence of “luminaries” from industry and academia who took active part in the two-day workshop. “The question was, can we demonstrate a prototype DNA storage machine within five to seven years?” explains Zhirnov. “It is a very ambitious goal, but we concluded that it is possible.””

meteorite magnetic field + coil = sound + wow

Matthieu Lehanneur's liquid marble. And Newcastle puddle cam. The world is one. Or two. I want to swim in marble, and look at the universe through a puddle. Puddles are telescopes. Marvelous marbelous telescopes. http://www.designboom.com/design/mathieu-lehanneur-petite-loire-liquid-marble-installation-05-05-2016/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/06/the-internet-cant-stop-watching-this-livestream-of-people-trying-to-cross-a-puddle