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Surface Detail by subBlue. A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape. Thanks to Triangulation blog for the heads up.
(Jessica do not watch this)
:O
THUNDERSTORMS MAKE ANTIMATTER!!!
(via NASA) — Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.
Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed inside thunderstorms in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF) associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected.
“These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams,” said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He presented the findings Monday, during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.
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(via metaconscious)
Tatiana Plakhova, Structure and Chaos
Water Sculpture by Shinichi Maruyama
denser (by Aaron Meyers)
I’m so jealous of this guy’s studio.
Spectacular ceramic sculpture by
Akihiko Ishijima "big cloud"
Eggs hatched at Louis Vuitton, London
The ostrich eggs have hatched at the Bond St Louis Vuitton store in London. Every few days a new egg is hatched revealing a new shoe, watch or accessory.
Motoi Yamamoto’s salt labyrinths
The Faraday instability forms when a fluid interface is vibrated. This high-speed video shows the differences in the shapes formed by a vibrated fluid interface when the two fluids are miscible—capable of mixing—and when they are immiscible—like oil and water. Note how the miscible interface breaks down quickly into turbulence, but the immiscible interface maintains a complex shape.
I’d love to get stuck into some making in this room but I fear it’s a little too tidy!
[ If anyone knows the source/photographer, please hit me up. Thanks. ]
Formspring: Do you ever get creative blocks? if so, what do you do to combat them? They are so frustrating!
Yeah, creative block is very frustrating. I wrote this post on the subject a while back:
Thanks for the excellent question! It is worthy of further thought and a more in depth post one of these days. Lately, I struggle more with finding motivation than coming up with ideas of what to do. I have long lists of ideas I want to get to, but scoping realistically, prioritizing, and sticking through the long haul of the work is the challenge I’m trying to tackle.