… and linger for decades. It’s too soon to know what, if any, role they play in the mother’s health after birth, but some evidence points toward them behaving like stem cells, repairing and replenishing when she is sick.
Centripetal Notion// archive
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Wal-Mart: The New Southern Plantation
“Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and former presidential candidate, was only slightly exaggerating when he said that Wal-Mart was a modern plantation, with workers toiling in its stores rather than in the fields of the deep south.”
Touchlight
The last post on multi-touch interaction reminded me of the Touchlight interface I saw at last year’s SIGGRAPH. Here’s some video I took of its creator, Andrew Wilson, explaining a prototype, and an earlier video of him outlining the workings in more detail.
Multi-Touch Interaction
“While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.”
Pleix
“Pleix is a virtual community of digital artists based in Paris. Some of us are 3D artists, some others are musicians or graphic designers. This website is the perfect place to share our latest creations.”
Justin Mullins: Mathematical Photography
Justin Mullin has collected equations and theorems he feels correspond to more tangible ideas like birth, family, mystery, etc., and now sells posters of his work in addition to having his first gallery exhibit later this month.
Surrealist Garfield
With Garfield’s speech/thoughts removed, the comic strip reaches a new level of meaning: it’s just some lonely dude talking to his cat.
C.O. Ruiz: Mexico City Sprawl
Some amazing aerial photos of Mexico City taken by helicopter pilot & photographer, C.O. Ruiz.
New Guinea’s Garden Of Eden
An astonishing mist-shrouded “lost world” of previously unknown and rare animals and plants high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea has been uncovered by an international team of scientists.
Kenneth Huff
Kenneth Huff’s digital work combines complex geometric forms with intricately rendered texture, giving it a tangible, organic quality. He also makes 3D animations and sculpture that adhere to a similar style.
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