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skunkbear: As Virginia Hughes noted in a recent piece for National Geographic’s Phenomena blog, the most common depiction of a synapse (that communicating junction between two neurons) is pretty simple: Signal molecules leave one neuron from that bulby thing, float across a gap, and are picked up by receptors on the other neuron. In this…
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I’ve seen black musicians when they’d be jamming at a jam session with white musicians—a whole lot of difference. The white musician can jam on something that he’s heard before. If he’s heard it, then he can duplicate it or he can imitate it or he can read it. But the black musician, he picks…
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alexainslie: Rhino
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gregorychatman: “Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them,…
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I shall always be depressed, but what comforts me is the realization that I can now accept this dark side as the commanding side of my personality. In accepting it I will make it work for me. Samuel Beckett as quoted by Mason Curry in the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (via notational)
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mymorningsketch: Monster Manual Week: GELATINOUS CUBE! Today’s 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual sketch is the Gelatinous Cube. Unfortunately, there’s no illustration for it in the Monster Manual itself, but the Gelatinous Cube remains one of the iconic D&D monsters. Essentially 10′ x 10′ x 10′ cubes of jelly-like digestive fluids, “gelatinous cubes are nearly transparent and are difficult to see.”…
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twotimesinfinity: Pablo Escobar by Fernando Botero
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hackersofny: “The definition of ‘hack’ has recently morphed and I’m really happy about that. The the term is no longer like back in my dad’s day – four dudes in a dark basement, like in that cheesy movie Hackers. David Lee of SV Angel actually wanted us to change [Tech@NYU’s] name to Hack@NYU – he…
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powhida: Diealectics, Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper. 15” x 19”, 2014.
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sfmoma: Happy PRIDE! We want to see how you #ShowYourPride, and we hope to see a lot of you at the parade on Sunday! We’ll be marching with the Asian Art Museum in celebration of Gorgeous. Can’t wait!