One of the Wave Gliders leaves Hawaii on the next leg of its epic ocean journey. Weather and wave sensors sit high on a pole above the vessel's surfboard-like surface. Image: Liquid Robotics Twenty-two feet below the surface, the robot glider towed me slowly through clear Hawaiian seas. The day before, a similar glider named Benjamin had arrived in these same waters. Benjamin and three companion gliders had traveled all the way from San Francisco — more than 3,000 miles — powered by only the motion of ocean waves. Before they left California, Liquid Robotics VP of Operations Graham Hine blessed the gliders by smashing a bottle of champagne on one of their frames, asking nature for assistance: “Neptune, god of the seas, and Aeolus, ... Continue reading →
Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their refrigerator's depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to make a stomach turn. But one man's fridge mold is another man's still life. Estonian artist Heikki Leis' Afterlife is a veritable rotting cornucopia of vegetables photographed long past their prime. "I was inspired by some potatoes I had once left out in a pot for too long. They had started to mold and on closer examination the colors and textures looked interesting enough to take some photos," Leis wrote in an e-mail. Leis then started experimenting with various fruits and vegetables. He sometimes let them decay for two months, keeping them covered so they wouldn't dry out. When Leis finished, he was truly finished. ... Continue reading →
Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak, the brains behind Facebook's Analog Research Laboratory. The pair creates internal messaging for the company in a basement printing press. Facebook’s got it all — 845 million users, a $104 billion valuation, blackmail-worthy pics of everyone born in the ’90s, and a screen-printing studio. Yup, that’s right: The social-media behemoth houses a basement art studio, the Analog Research Lab, where designers Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak churn out hand-screened posters that go up all over Facebook’s 36 global offices. In light of all the hype around today’s IPO, Barry and Katigbak printed a broadside with the slogan, “Stay Focused and Keep Shipping.” It hangs on chief Zuckerberg’s door. Creating the lab was never in the game plan. In 2010, after ... Continue reading →
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