Paper Sculpture

Beautiful Paper Sculptures by Calvin Nicholls
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Canadian artist Calvin Nicholls creates the following amazingly beautiful sculptures using sheets of paper. “Calvin has been creating his paper sculptures since 1986 from his studio north of Toronto Ontario, Canada. Working with sheets of paper and a scalpel, he cuts the component pieces to fit the final drawing and assembles the low relief artwork under studio lighting. When the sculpture is complete the lighting is adjusted to bring out the subtle form and texture. A large format camera is used to capture the detail on 8×10 film prior to scanning for print applications or art prints.”

Typewriter Art

Keira Rathbone's Typewriter Art
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From StewPig:

"27-year-old Keira Rathbone

[top and below],

from London, first started experimenting with typewriter art when she was in university.

She bought an old typewriter from a flea market in the hope that she would soon use it to write something.

By the middle of her first year at the university, she hadn’t come up with anything to put down on paper, so she decided to use it as a drawing tool.

The first results were promising, and young Keira quickly realized she would be exploring this new art form much further."

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skin cell research?

Thursday, June 9, 2011 4:09 PMBehindTheMedspeak: "Skin Gun" uses stem cells to heal severe burnsbookofjoebookofjoe

Reader Uncle Jake pointed me toward this video, which appeared on the National Geographic Channel.

Its caption: "A simple idea backed by stem cell research allows victims of severe burns to heal in mere days."

Bird's Nest - BOJ

By San Francisco photographer Sharon Beals who wrote, "Bird nests, even without knowing which birds constructed them, seem hardly possible. Creations of spider’s web, caterpillar cocoon, plant down, mud, found modern objects, human and animal hair, mosses, lichen, feathers and down, sticks and twigs–all are woven with beak and claw into a bird's best effort to protect their next generation."

"But survival for so many birds is tenuous in a modern world where habitat loss is as common as the next housing development, and even subtle changes in climate can affect food supply. It is my hope that capturing the detailed art form of the nests in these photographs will gain appreciation for their builders, and inspire their protection."

Via Doug D who wrote, "Follow the link to Flickr for more hi-res nests. 39MP camera!"

Nests from the top down: House Finch; MacGillivray's Warbler; Akeke'e; Meadow Bunting.

Blue Mushrooms - Book Of Joe

Do NOT adjust your set: go ask Alice to do it for you.

Above and below,

the sky blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri, photographed by Steve Axford on Fox Glacier in New Zealand.

"The blue coloring of the fruit body is due to three azulene pigments. Entoloma hochstetteri is not edible, but whether or not it is poisonous is unknown."

FunFacts: "This species was one of six native fungi featured in a set of fungal stamps issued in New Zealand in 2002. It is also seen on the reverse side of the $50 bank note issued by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 1990."

The mushroom is also native to India.

[via Bem Legaus and pho2addicted]

Skulpture

Kate MacDowell's sculpturebookofjoe

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Good News Week

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:30 AMBlast from the past: "It's Good News Week" — Hedgehoppers Anonymousbookofjoebookofjoe

The one-hit wonder group's 1965 song has the most sublime lyrics.

Words and music by Kenneth King.

Sing along with me, we'll have a hootenanny.

Does that date me or what?

FunFact: there were two versions, the UK iteration (top) becoming quite controversial such that a watered-down version (below)

was released in the U.S.

And before you get your baggies in a twist about how relatively mild the song sounds today, remember, it was 1965.

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