Darkened Cities

“To show him stars is to help him dream again.”



Darkened Cities by French photographer Thierry Cohen – a blend of city scenes with the sky from one place, from less light polluted locations that fall on the same latitudes, superimposed upon a darkened cityscape from another.





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Hexagon Series

With the success, in sales, of Hexagon No. 1 on Society6 (mostly iPhone Cases)... I've added a couple of colourways:



Hexagon No. 2



Hexagon No. 3

Power, Corruption and Lies

I actually prefer this to the finished piece...



Paste-up mechanical artwork for New Order 'Power, Corruption and Lies' album front/back cover (detail)

Deciphered: Peter Saville | Uponpaper

Acoustic Levitation

"Using sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing pharmaceutical drugs and drying them in mid-air. Why do this? This is useful because most of the drugs on the market are either amorphous or crystalline and the crystalline form doesn’t get absorbed by the body. So levitating the solution allows the drug to be made into an amorphous state (by evaporation) because if it were to touch any surface it would simply crystallize. They call this “containerless processing”.
The frequencies used are just above the audible range at about 22 kilohertz and when the two speakers are aligned they create two sets of sound waves, perfectly interfering with each other creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. This allows the objects to levitate in areas within the waves known as nodes as the acoustic pressure is enough to cancel the force of gravity."





No magic show: Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals | Argonne National Laboratory

Ápsis

Ápsis photographs by Henrik Isaksson Garnell






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A Gif for Wednesday

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