#thisisalive

[frenchshark]

To Lauren

LAURENNNN!!!! I miss you like crazy and I'm so upset that I missed my last chance to otherwise keep in touch with you when you deactivated this-is-alive. Like legitimately, I just spent the last while trying to figure out if there was any breadcrumb trail left behind besides your ask--kindling--fire--in--a--jar blog because I'm scared you might not check that one since you went on your rp hiatus well over a year ago but anyways, if you see this PLEASE message me because I miss my lovely little Lauren and want her back in my life ASAP. Love you girl!

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Algerium BioPrinter Marin Sawa

Quote by Marin Sawa sourced from ThisisAlive:

"The ‘Algaerium Bioprinter’ prototype demonstrates how microalgae can be cultivated in our domestic space to provide digitally printed health food on demand. This project refers to my previous work, which explored the aesthetic and functions of microalgae living systems. Here, Algaerium acts as an ink reservoir, containing ‘superfood’ microalgae such as Chlorella, Spirulina and Haematococcus. The selection of the algae strains reflects the diversity of colours in algae and allows for colourful printed patterns. Often algaes’ colours also indicate their nutraceutical values. For instance, Chlorella is exploited as health food for its high content of chlorophylls, responsible for its green pigmentation. Such species are cultivated on industrial scale and are increasingly in demand in today’s global health food market."

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The Rise, CITA

Installation in which the properties of tropism, adaptation to the natural surrounding, are replicated using algorithmic processes and then rebuilt  using rattan core. The ultimate form depends and is defined by its environment, light, gravity and contact to its surroundings. 

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Emile de Visscher, a friend of mine from the RCA, coats any materials using a technique called "pearling" to make them appear, well, more like pearls. His process is really smart, it involves mimicking oysters, dipping small objects successively in baths of polarised coating material. 

He is currently exhibiting as part of the the "Alive: New Design Frontiers exhibition" at the Espace Fondation in Paris, which is full of interesting projects, worth checking out in itself. 

[frenchshark]

Ugh I feel like such a horrible friend.

I want to talk with you and catch up with you Lauren but I've been sick and lazy and I love catching up on livestream/tinychat/etc SO MUCH MORE alsdkfj Tumblr asks are just too confusing to keep up with how much we've caught up on each other's lives anymore since we manage it so rarely:(

BUT I'M HERE AND I LOVE YOU AND I MISS YOU TO BITS AND I PROMISE WE'LL CATCH UP ASAP!!!!! I just might get caught up in your face spam in the process though lololol