March82013

torrilla:

Henry IV on set photos by Charlie Gray

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March72013
in-the-horniman: This little object was a bit of a surprise! In a box full of pounders and pestles, we found this model of two women pounding food in a large vessel. Unfortunately not much is known about it, but it is believed to be from Benin, Africa and to have come from the Fon people. (nn5003)

in-the-horniman:

This little object was a bit of a surprise! In a box full of pounders and pestles, we found this model of two women pounding food in a large vessel. Unfortunately not much is known about it, but it is believed to be from Benin, Africa and to have come from the Fon people. (nn5003)
11AM
The World’s Quietest Room Scientists at Minneapolis’ Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes.  With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber’s sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjects can even hear their own organs functioning. Although extremely interesting, the experience is rather unpleasant. Not one subject has spent more than 45 minutes in the chamber alone. Leaving a person to only their thoughts, the chamber could drive them insane.

The World’s Quietest Room

Scientists at Minneapolis’ Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes. 

With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber’s sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjects can even hear their own organs functioning.

Although extremely interesting, the experience is rather unpleasant. Not one subject has spent more than 45 minutes in the chamber alone. Leaving a person to only their thoughts, the chamber could drive them insane.

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9AM

clubfang:

Mr. Blue Sky - ELO

Hey there mister blue
We’re so pleased to be with you
Look around see what you do
Ev’rybody smiles at you

(17,966 plays)

7AM
amnhnyc: It’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: working on the Andean Condor diorama, 1963. See this diorama today in Birds of the World. © AMNH Library/329258

amnhnyc:

It’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: working on the Andean Condor diorama, 1963.

See this diorama today in Birds of the World.

© AMNH Library/329258
March62013

discoverynews:

Bugs Make Art: Photos

Entomologist Steven Kutcher is a Hollywood “Bug Guy,” serving as a consultant in movies like “Jurassic Park,” “Arachnophobia” and “James and the Giant Peach.”

In the 1980s Director Steven Spielberg needed a shot where a fly walks through ink, leaving footprints.

Kutcher began experimenting for the scene, which led to his interest in prints created by insects.

This is just too cool! Pass me the cockroaches! I have a masterpiece to crawl.

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11AM
allthingseurope: Hallstatt, Austria (by Béla Török)

allthingseurope:

Hallstatt, Austria (by Béla Török)
9AM

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(Source: dailyanimals, via a-bit-fairy-tale)
7AM

carlosbaila:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

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March52013

fishingboatproceeds:

devildoll:

are you fucking kidding me

This was created by the brilliant Judith Ann Braunn. Those of you lucky enough to live in or near Indianapolis can see an original (and definitionally temporary*) fingerprint graphite work created by Braunn at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as part of GRAPHITE, a show curated by none other than my wife.

It’s really encouraging to see good contemporary art getting >100,000 notes on tumblr, particularly because everyone is always telling me that no one is interested in contemporary art.

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