Category: words

  • pacegallery: Chuck Close’s exhibit, opening tomorrow at Pace, will include the first presentation of his newest experiment with technology: watercolor prints. “Invention,” Robert Storr writes, “plays a pivotal part in the fundamental dynamics of Close’s work but not in the sense of contriving an unprecedented pictorial or conceptual model. Instead his pragmatism or, better said, innovative…

  • pacegallery: Chuck Close’s exhibit, opening tomorrow at Pace, will include the first presentation of his newest experiment with technology: watercolor prints. “Invention,” Robert Storr writes, “plays a pivotal part in the fundamental dynamics of Close’s work but not in the sense of contriving an unprecedented pictorial or conceptual model. Instead his pragmatism or, better said, innovative…

  • thisistheverge: $41 million can’t buy success as Color app finally gives up Color Labs, the San Francisco based company that received $41 million in venture capital last year to build a photo-sharing app, will soon shut its doors, according to VentureBeat. “The company’s shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down,” the…

  • thisistheverge: $41 million can’t buy success as Color app finally gives up Color Labs, the San Francisco based company that received $41 million in venture capital last year to build a photo-sharing app, will soon shut its doors, according to VentureBeat. “The company’s shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down,” the…

  • Haiti’s small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti’s climate and conditions, they ate readily-available waste products, and could survive for three days without food. Eighty to 85% of rural households raised pigs; they played a key role in maintaining the fertility of…

  • Haiti’s small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti’s climate and conditions, they ate readily-available waste products, and could survive for three days without food. Eighty to 85% of rural households raised pigs; they played a key role in maintaining the fertility of…

  • sevensheaven: Shadowplay.

  • sevensheaven: Shadowplay.

  • mikkipedia: truncatedurl: ceeainthereforthat: biolola: 100% Blue actually, they’re not blue. they’re iridescent and the reason why they look blue is because blue light measures at about 400-480 nanometers and the distance between the slits in a morpho’s scales (which look like mascara brushes) are about 200 nanometers apart. this is the magic distance to make…

  • mikkipedia: truncatedurl: ceeainthereforthat: biolola: 100% Blue actually, they’re not blue. they’re iridescent and the reason why they look blue is because blue light measures at about 400-480 nanometers and the distance between the slits in a morpho’s scales (which look like mascara brushes) are about 200 nanometers apart. this is the magic distance to make…