Different varieties of rice supply the color changes. Would love to see a feature on how it is created.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Pimp my rice paddy
Different varieties of rice supply the color changes. Would love to see a feature on how it is created.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Sun's Atmosphere Sings
Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere.
Snagging orchestra seats for this solar symphony would be fruitless, however, as the frequency of the sound waves is below the human hearing threshold. While humans can make out sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, the solar sound waves are on the order of milli-hertz--a thousandth of a hertz.
The study, presented this week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Lancashire, England, reveals that the looping magnetic fields along the Sun's outer regions, called the corona, carry magnetic sound waves in a similar manner to musical instruments such as guitars or pipe organs.
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"Good morning! The sun is singing and the birds are shining." -- Ralph Aldous, Bath 1973
Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere.
Snagging orchestra seats for this solar symphony would be fruitless, however, as the frequency of the sound waves is below the human hearing threshold. While humans can make out sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, the solar sound waves are on the order of milli-hertz--a thousandth of a hertz.
The study, presented this week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Lancashire, England, reveals that the looping magnetic fields along the Sun's outer regions, called the corona, carry magnetic sound waves in a similar manner to musical instruments such as guitars or pipe organs.
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"Good morning! The sun is singing and the birds are shining." -- Ralph Aldous, Bath 1973
Transformers
I was surprised how much my inner nine-year-old boy (er, I'm a silver-haired fiftysomething soccer mom) enjoyed the Transformers movie. It's big, dumb, colorful, loud, goodnatured fun. It was really hard the next day or two to look at any car or truck on the street without expecting it to suddenly transform.
The prop of the Allspark artifact that the warring Transformers fought over sold on Ebay for $20,100 . It was down from a high of $40,000 a couple of days before the closing, presumably some bad bids pushing it up at one point. Bumblebee, the yellow Camaro used in the movie, started off surprisingly far behind the Allspark in the beginning bidding, but finally ended up at $40,100. All proceeds went to Fisher House Foundation. Fisher House supplies lodging at major military and VA medical centers, so that military family members have a place to stay when visiting ill or injured loved ones.
PingMag visited the studio of Transformer deconstructor Scott Campbell. Campbell's Misformers are made from pieces of over a thousand working Transformers, and turned into Transformer sculptures that not functional in the same way anymore, but still can serve as art.
"TransFormers are shining examples of functionality. They transform from useful machines into even greater robots capable of god like feats. As a model for the transition from a boy to a man, a TransFormer is a pretty tough act to follow. The MisFormers series brings some balance to the idea and represents the multitude of humans and social realities stuck somewhere in the middle. No longer a car but not quite becoming the world saving robot either.
The MisFormers Project started as a brief glance at the inability of many industrialized societies to raise socially functional male adults. However, it quickly developed to act as a platform to explore a much wider range of issues related to social dynamics."
When asked if he's met Transformers collectors, Campbell says, "Yeah, I have had some interesting and educational conversations with some real maniacs. I nearly shit at my first show when I heard what one Transformer I had carved up was worth."
ARTICLE: Scott Campbell: Misforming Transformers
Iranian Typography Now
PingMag, the online design magazine based in Japan, ran an article on examples of stunning Iranian typography, based on posters in a 2002 French exhibit of Iranian graphic design.
The article by Hariri Behrouz puts the typography in historical and graphic context, giving some basic background on Farsi letter elements and calligraphy.
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Behrouz is a talented graphic designer himself. See his poster for the Tehran Techno Festival.
Jane Austen Doesn't Even Make it in Through the Tradesmen's Entrance
How A Laydee showed that First Impressions really are misleading
By Simon de Bruxelles
A frustrated author has confirmed what other unpublished writers have long suspected: even Jane Austen would have difficulty finding a book deal in the 21st Century.
But what really astonished David Lassman was that only one of 18 publishers and literary agents recognised her work when it was submitted to them under a false name.
Mr Lassman, 43, had spent months trying without success to find a publisher for his own novel Freedom’s Temple. Out of frustration – and to test whether today’s publishers could spot great literature – he retyped the opening chapters of three Austen classics: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
He changed only the titles, the names of the characters and his own name – calling himself Alison Laydee, after Austen’s early pseudonym “A Lady” – then waited for the offers to roll in.
Instead he received yet another sheaf of rejection letters, including one from Penguin, which republished Pride and Prejudice last year, describing his plagarised chapters as “a really original and interesting read” but not right for Penguin.
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How A Laydee showed that First Impressions really are misleading
By Simon de Bruxelles
A frustrated author has confirmed what other unpublished writers have long suspected: even Jane Austen would have difficulty finding a book deal in the 21st Century.
But what really astonished David Lassman was that only one of 18 publishers and literary agents recognised her work when it was submitted to them under a false name.
Mr Lassman, 43, had spent months trying without success to find a publisher for his own novel Freedom’s Temple. Out of frustration – and to test whether today’s publishers could spot great literature – he retyped the opening chapters of three Austen classics: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
He changed only the titles, the names of the characters and his own name – calling himself Alison Laydee, after Austen’s early pseudonym “A Lady” – then waited for the offers to roll in.
Instead he received yet another sheaf of rejection letters, including one from Penguin, which republished Pride and Prejudice last year, describing his plagarised chapters as “a really original and interesting read” but not right for Penguin.
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Firemouse will feature art, crafts (both fine and domestic), music, words, and literature. I have the OED on my hard disk and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Firemouse will feature art, crafts (both fine and domestic), music, words, and literature. I have the OED on my hard disk and I'm not afraid to use it.
Along with news, links and commentary, I will be offering custom t-shirts, gifts and housewares featuring uncommon vintage images in the above subject areas through CafePress.com, using images from my extensive personal collection of rare books, prints, and artifacts. In the future I will be offering collectible and rare books on all those topics and more.
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