TRANSITION- BLOOM

Semester Project 2012-2013 "TRANSITION" Sub-theme "BLOOM" Media Technology - Leiden University

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Blooming tea, the process of making it.

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Recreating the movements of petals

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bloom wallpaper

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Bloom through drawings

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Blooming flowers

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ijsbloemen / iceflowers

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Harvard physicists have described for the first time how flowers generate the forces needed to curl open.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/flower-bloom-physics/

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Bloemen maken gelukkig, wetenschappelijk bewezen.

http://www.fbr.wur.nl/NL/nieuwsagenda/archief/nieuws/2009/bl090817.htm

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Blooming a city, an agricultural project

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hortus 

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[prostheticknowledge]

Inside Insides 

Creative blog uses MRI scanner to look into objects such as vegetables, often with pleasurable results. These captures into animated gifs (as you can see above).

You can check out more at the blog here

[Note - I am not responsible for the above Gifs - they were made by Andy Ellison who runs the blog - the only alteration I have made of them is to optimize and reduce the original file sizes so they can run here. Higher resolution versions can be found at the blog itself]

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A fascinating look inside the most common objects.

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MicROCKScopica

You’ll never look at geology the same way again after unlocking the beauty inside Bernardo Cesare’s MicROCKScopia project. Minerals, natural and otherwise, are imaged using polarized light. Check out the full project here.

(via Symbiartic)

[ianbrooks]

See-Through Ants photos by Mohamed Babu

Inspired by witnessing ants turn white after drinking spilt milk, the next step was only logical: make them turn all sorts of wacky colors. Utilizing colored sugar drops on a paraffin sheet to help them retain their shape, Babu was able to snap several pictures while noticing that the ants only liked to nom on lighter colors. My contribution: feed them glow in the dark liquid and let’s have a rave.

(source: dailymail.co.uk, via: technabob)

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To go with my last, ant-related post. 

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Suzanne Anker - Survival of the Beautiful - The New York Institute for the Humanities

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Suzzane Anker - Survival of the Beautiful NYIH Event

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Natural History of the Enigma, A Transgenic flower with the own artist’s DNA, by artist Eduardo Kac :

This new flower is a Petunia strain that I invented and produced through molecular biology. It is not found in nature. The “Edunia” has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of mine [a protein-coding sequence of my DNA from my Immunoglobulin (IgG) light chain (variable region)]  is expressed on every cell of its red veins, i.e., my gene produces a protein in the veins only.

The gene was isolated and sequenced from my blood… My IgG DNA is integrated into the chromosome of the Edunia. This means that every time that the Edunia is propagated through seeds my gene is present in the new flowers…The result of this molecular manipulation is a bloom that creates the living image of human blood rushing through the veins of a flower.