[megaestructuras]

Cedric Price - Fun Palace - 1961 to 1972

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

Tunisia, 1990.

Bruno Barbey

[satoshikurosaki]

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

[skunkbear]

Two incredible things:

1. This was much harder to make than it looks! To achieve this resolution with an electron microscope, it took 10 seconds to capture each frame of this “video.” The traditional 30 frames per second video was impossible. Instead, this is stop motion - like those Wallace and Gromit cartoons. Ben Krasnow of the youtube channel Applied Science took a picture, moved the record slightly, then took another image and on and on. Because electron microscopes can’t image electrical insulators, he had to coat the whole thing with a thin, thin layer of silver. You can watch the whole process in this video.

2. This gif not only shows us what a record looks like up close - it’s a visualization of the vibrations that make a song! If you took those wavy shapes into a digital player, you could actually hear the song being played.

[npr]

[shantisheaan]

Still life in progress

[podencos]

[answeringemails]

a Dream

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

[amor-por-los-cactus]

[janellejlee]

“Things will be fine” - Dinosaur Coffee, Los Angeles

[halogenic]

[perrfectly]

[queensummit]

[criwes]

Gianni Passeretti

[unskins]

[newmexicosky]

[aformofhealing-deactivated20160]

[mi-ki-ki-m]