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txchnologist: Sewing Machine Makes Cheap Stretchy Component Needed For Wearable Tech And Soft Robots Purdue University engineers have come up with a new and simpler way to make stretchy connections for electronics. Such power- and information-transporting materials are needed for soft robotics, next-generation implants and wearable technologies to advance. The group used a regular sewing…
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luxology: Language and Chaos (1989-1990), Mike Parr Mike Parr’s self portrait is one that attempts to map the interactions of mind and body, the conscious and the unconscious. It is not a solipsistic search for the self but rather an attempt to explore the human condition and how the personal informs the political. In his self-portrait…
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inspirewiki: Within the next 10 years, we will be 3D printing our own clothes. Meet OpenKnit, the first open-source clothing printer. As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google’s I/O conference yesterday, the 3D printing hype, while partly a result of the boom-bust-recovery theory of capitalism, should be taken seriously—at least for the…
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inspirewiki: Within the next 10 years, we will be 3D printing our own clothes. Meet OpenKnit, the first open-source clothing printer. As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google’s I/O conference yesterday, the 3D printing hype, while partly a result of the boom-bust-recovery theory of capitalism, should be taken seriously—at least for the…
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Lila (Hinduism)
elmerseason: (via Wikipedia article on Lila) Lila (Sanskrit: लीला, IAST līlā) or Leela, like many Sanskrit words, cannot be literally translated to English but can be loosely translated as “play” (noun). […] Within non-dualism, Lila is a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos, as the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute (Brahman).
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Art does not reside in the artwork alone, nor in the activity of the artist alone, but is understood as a field of psychic probability, highly entropic, in which the viewer is actively involved, not in an act of closure in the sense of completing a discrete message from the artist (a passive process) but…