Such a Beautiful Way to Waste Your Time
Originally at http://www.shaunagm.net/blog/2011/11/science-vs-romance/
I’m in the middle of an incredibly busy month, so I thought I’d be efficient and document one of my favorite procrastination activities as a blog post. I call this activity “finding shiny things on the web”. Today’s theme is science and nature photos.
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A gallery of over a hundred photos of things too small to be seen by the naked eye. This is a fruit fly ovary.
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High speed photography of splashing liquids. Two gorgeous flickr sets from Markus Reugels: Liquid Sculptures and Liquid Splashes.
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Caren Alpert’s close ups of everyday foods are just neat.
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Andy Goldsworthy, an environmental sculptor and photographer, is one of my favorite artists. There are several galleries of his work online (this one is quite comprehensive, and (this one lets you browse by material - I suggest leaves and ice.) But you’re probably best off going to this page, which does a good job of showcasing the most stunning environmental artwork created by - or inspired by - Goldsworthy.
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“These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colors and shading are artistic additions, but the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of individual microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature.” from artist/scientist Eshel Ben-Jacob
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The Mandelbulb - a 3D rendering of the Mandelbrot set. Lots of images, a relatively accessible explanation of how the bulb was created, plus a gallery of other 3D fractals on the web.
