October 31, 2008
August 24, 2008
August 11, 2008
August 01, 2008
LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a 17 mile long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, begins its first particle beam tests this month. The first particle collisions will happen before the end of the year. The Big Picture shows us various stages of completion.
June 20, 2008
L'Inconnue de la Seine
The unknown girl from the river Seine
In the early 20th century, the unidentified body of a young girl was pulled from the River Seine in Paris. An employee of the morgue was so entranced by the young girl’s ethereal smile that he made a plaster death mask of her. Eternally capturing her blissful appearance.
Generations later, the Girl from the River Seine would be rediscovered when Asmund S. Laerdal began the development of a realistic and effective training aid to teach mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He believed that if such a manikin was life-sized and extremely realistic in appearance, students would be better motivated to learn this lifesaving procedure. Moved by the story of the girl so tragically taken by early death, he fashioned her mask for the face of his new resuscitation training manikin, Resusci Anne
June 16, 2008
June 09, 2008
June 05, 2008
JANTAR MANTAR
The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments on an massive scale, built by Jai Singh II at his then new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1733. The observatory consists of fourteen major geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars in their orbits, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes.
May 28, 2008
SPAM ARCHITECTURE (DRAGULESCU)
The images from Alex Dragulescu's Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.
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