No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread

After taking the GRE, giving presentations, and meeting one of my science heroes, I can actually feel the stress melting away. I'd like to believe that this will lead to more blogging, more sleep, and more sanity... but I doubt it. I can not believe I'm leaving this city in two weeks. There is so much left to do, see, explore, discover...

Anyway, here's what has been keeping my mind and hands busy the last week or so:

I'm adding some words to some of the negative space and honestly, I'm not sure how I'll feel about it a few weeks or months from now, but I've really enjoyed the therapeutic act of copying, tracing, and detail. Any and all thoughts and comments are welcome.

weird science

The Coolest Video

The above video is simply flabbergasting. It's tracking the development of an embryo of C. elegans (pictured above). The green stain shows the nuclei of each cell (nuclei pictured in purple below), the red is a specific stain for the digestive system, and the yellow is when they're "co-expressed" simply meaning the two are very close to each other.

breaking it up

This is how I think when I get dressed.

from Wear Palettes- great blog!

we confided in science (we can fight our desires)

these are the current models that we believe cells use to transcribe genes (make the information in DNA into a message where things in the cell can then turn them into proteins, which are just entities in the cell that play a role or have some sort of function like being an informant or stopping another protein from being made) when their control elements (the information that tells the machinery that makes these messages whether or not to copy this particular set of info) are far away.

I think these are beautiful.
 

       

Sit on it.

I've noticed some themes in my art that I'm working though. There's a dampening of color that occurs in most of my pieces.. I seem to take bright colors and add some brown to them, make them muddier. I've also been reading about the 1920s, and bauhaus in particular... and became fascinated by their high hopes... these artists charged themselves with designing for a utopian society, and in order to do this they designed...

chairs!

(partially because there was no money to design buildings, and partially for perfectly acceptable conceptual reasons)

It's interesting to see what they thought the future would look like.. (and please, suspend all thoughts relating to 1984, We, and Brave New World for just a minute)