artandsciencejournal:

Levi Van Veluw

In this series, Veneer, by Levi Van Veluw, the artist uses an expressionless, almost universal, face and demonstrates how different materials can create meaning. As he states, “By playing with the value of the each material and by using them for a purpose that was not originally intended for them, I construct within the image, in a very small way, a different perspective on the world.”

The use of repetition in this series also creates meaning. At first, since the face is present throughout the series, one would think it would be the focus. Yet the differences are what stand out. As Veluw states, “By using the same head and facial expression, the person slowly becomes of secondary importance to the form.”

Through his focus on materials Veluw raises questions about “veneers”—Does the difference in material change the value of each of the pieces in the series? Veluw thinks it does, “My work amounts to small researches into the valuations we assign to the things around us and the associations they engender.” To see more of his work, click here. 

- Lee Jones




karaniwangbinatilyo:

UNDER THE SEA

Naadik na ata ako sa pagdoodle. Hihi. So yan, dahil walang assignments at reports then at the same time, matumal ang dash kanina, eto natapos ko.

Ginawan ng kapatid ko ng kwento. Yung Hammerhead King daw yung bida, kakampi nya daw yung nasa left side with the Seahorse Queen at kalaban yung nasa right side with their Catfish Crowned Prince.



you-dont-compare:

Here, have some acid

fullmetalstoner:

14-billion-years-later:


A newly discovered alien planet that formed from a dead star is a real diamond in the rough. The super-high pressure of the planet, which orbits a rapidly pulsing neutron star, has likely caused the carbon within it to crystallize into an actual diamond, a new study suggests. The composition of the planet, which is about five times the size of Earth, is not its only outstanding feature.

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mothernaturenetwork:

Glow-in-the-dark mushroom rediscovered after 170 yearsSpotted  once in 1840 and then never seen again, one of the world’s most  bioluminescent mushrooms has been rediscovered deep in the  Brazilian wilderness.

kenyatta:

China and Europe Both Have Plans To Prevent Deadly Asteroid Apophis from Hitting Earth in 2029 (or 2036)

Apophis is a 46 million tonne asteroid that will pass within a hair’s breath of Earth in 2029. However, Apophis’s trajectory is likely to take it through a region of space near Earth known as a keyhole that will ensure the asteroid returns in 2036.
Nobody knows how close Apophis will come on that pass. But if there’s a chance of a collision, we’ll have only 7 years to work out how to avoid catastrophe.
Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing say their preference is to use a solar sail to place a small spacecraft into a retrograde orbit and on collision course with Apophis. The retrograde orbit will give it an impact velocity of 90km/s which, if they do this well enough in advance, should lead to a collision large enough to do the trick.
In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called Don Quijote to find out how best to perform such a deflection.
Don Quijote involves sending two spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid; one to smash into it and the other to watch while in orbit above the impact crater. The goal is to change the asteroid’s semimajor axis by more than 100 metres and to measure the change with an accuracy greater than 1 per cent.

via Technology Review