by Captain Skellett | Nov 4, 2010 | Science Art
This art is made of film degraded by bacteria. It’s a self-portrait of the artist Erno-Eric Raitanen. The bacteria was harvested from his own body and cultivated on the gelatin surface of photographic film. It’s a similar process to growing bacteria on a...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 24, 2010 | Just for Fun, Science Art
Nothing says nerdy and delicious like a set of science cookie cutters. You can buy a set here, the site is in America but they ship internationally. I think they’re pretty cool nerdy cool. On the other hand I like my cookies chock full of chocolate and they...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 5, 2010 | Science Art, Science at Home
Winter sun is something worth enjoying. Spreading out lizardlike and soaking up UV rays to make Vitamin D is an excellent endeavour. I often take my laptop out with me and blog in the sunlight. Today as I was doing just that, my laptop started complaining about low...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 24, 2010 | Science Art
I have stumbled across Inside Insides, a blog of fruit and vegetables as seen through an MRI machine. Each fruit or vege has an animation, so you can see inside it from one end to another. Pictured is a screen shot of the latest entry – celery. Me favourites be...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 27, 2009 | Science Art
Bacteria and fungi are not generally thought of as attractive pieces of art, indeed I know the times I have lapsed in used-by-date judgment I have beheld them with disgust. Disgust, followed by destruction – straight to the bin or a boiling hot death. Still,...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 17, 2009 | Just for Fun, Science Art, Science at Home
Science and dessert… oh yeah. The two best things in the world, barring only the horizon blue and bare and far from shore. Not So Humble Pie is making incredible science inspired cookie and cupcake art, these pictures look absolutely unequivocally delicious and...
