Stereo Vision according to Rene Descartes.
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andscape shaped by the relationship between where water falls and where it’s consumed within the United States. It builds images to expose the reality that water is channeled, pumped, and siphoned to locations far from where it falls. Although the paths are imagined, Drawing Water is based on real data and it reveals a clear truth about water resources and use. Drawing Water plays a bit upon the 19th-centu (via Drawing Water :: David Wicks :: Works)
Cloud chamber photographs originally invented by Charles Thomas Wilson for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in the moist air. Inspired by sightings of the Broken Spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis, Scottish Highlands, in 1894, The New Landscape in Art and Science, 1956, Gyorgy Kepes
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Photography by Brian Oldham.
“Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish—a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typieully viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”
These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature. (via)
Phylogenetic utility and comparative morphology of the composite scale brushes in male phycitine moths (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae)
Thomas J. Simonsen and Amanda D. Roe Zoologischer Anzeiger 248 (2009): 119–136
“Figure and Description of a Sheep’s Eye”, from the manuscript “Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat” by Isaac Newton.The manuscript is part of Cambridge’s Newton Papers collection. It can be viewed in its entirety online. This particular manuscript dates from between 1672 and 1706, and consists of drafts of Newton’s “Opticks” as well as other miscellaneous writings.
Work I recently made for the “At how many lux … ?” exhibition at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL - Here the full photoset
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