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Paper Anatomy

February 2nd, 2012 | Brain

Inside the human body lies a universe of astonishing structures – the internal wonders of nature that enable us to live.  While most people don’t get much opportunity to see what we’re made of, I promise you, it’s worth it.
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 I have become a big fan of Anatomical Art, but the work above by Lisa Nilsson takes my interest to a whole new level.  She created these masterpieces by meticulously rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling.  As you can imagine, each section takes several weeks to complete.
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I’m truly amazed by the accuracy she attained in her pieces.  If you put these images in an anatomy textbook, I’m not sure you’d appreciate the difference.

Lisa is a Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduate from the Northeast U.
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S., and this collection, titled Tissue Series, was displayed last summer at a Massachusetts gallery.  Find more of her work here.

-RSB

 [via LaughingSquid]

Are We Not Drawn Onward, We Few, Drawn Onward to New Era

January 21st, 2012 | Brain

Yo Banana Boy – 2007 Oil on stainless steel, 66 x 50 cm

Valerio Carrubba is an Italian artist, born Sicily in 1975, and now living and working in Milan.  His work is defined by vibrant colors and hyper-realistic imagery that has a way of jumping off the canvas at you.  To create this effect, he uses high quality oil paints and ultra thin synthetic brushes on stainless steel canvases that are prepared by spraying two layers of a transparent primer for metals and two layers of white acrylic pigment before painting.
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Degas Is Aged – 2008 Oil on stainless steel, 60 x 52.6 cm

Delia Failed – 2006 Oil on stainless steel, 60 x 52.6 cm

Nina Ricci Ran In – 2006 Oil on stainless steel, 60 x 52.6 cm

Bird Rib – 2007 Oil on stainless steel, 52 x 70 cm

From his gallery’s website:

What is unusual about Valerio Carrubba’s process is his choice to paint the same picture twice, so that the superimposition of the same figure creates a slight mismatch in lines and forms. This repeated action transforms the painting into an automatic gesture, that at one and the same time, emphasizes and repudiates the subject.
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If you have a keen eye, you may have noticed that all of the titles are actually palindromes (as is the title of this post!), words or phrases that can be read forwards or backwards without a change in meaning.  Carrubba’s painting technique could be described as palindromic as well – he implements a doubling of each brushstroke to take away any hint of texture, which I think gives his paintings a certain stoicism.

And while I have always been a big fan of anatomical drawings (likely the reason I was drawn to his work), Carrubba was not actually very interested in the anatomy itself.  As noted in one interview with Carrubba:

My approach to painting is totally conceptual. My work is to continually develop the realisation of processes from which pictures are derived. Putting the idea of form, subject and content in crisis, they arrive at the loss of the image and its meaning… …I am not interested in anatomy itself, it is just a means. I try to emphasise this ambiguity.
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Needless to say, Carrubba must have studied his anatomy quite closely to produce such accurate portrayals of the human body.

Find more of Carrubba’s work here.

Animations of Unseeable Biology

January 15th, 2012 | Brain

Science is often intimidating and inaccessible, and it can be a problem for anyone attempting to grasp the unseeable world.  Drew Berry‘s animations let you see inside the cell at the molecular level, and the results are amazing.  They are both scientifically accurate and aesthetically beautiful.
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I am happy for the future students that will get to see these animations in school.

-RSB

[via The Loom]

p.s. I also like Dr. Baxter’s attempt to achieve something similar back in 1957.
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Images of Distinction

December 28th, 2011 | Brain

Cluster of neurons differentiated from embryonic stem cells (40X)

By Sharona Even-Ram

Affiliation – Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem

Location – Jerusalem, Israel

Technique – Confocal

Mouse brain pyramidal cells (20X)

By Celine Plachez

Affiliation – University of Maryland School of Medicine

Location – Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Technique – Confocal

Axonal projections of an ommatidium of Drosophila eye (40X)

By Anand Krishna Tiwari

Affiliation – Embryotoxicology Division, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research

Location – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Technique – Immunofluorescence

5-day old zebrafish head (20X)

By Hideo Otsuna

Affiliation – University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Location – Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Technique – Confocal

Flatmount of astrocytes in the nerve fiber layer of the mouse retina (40X)

By Gabriel Luna

Affiliation – UC Santa Barbara, Neuroscience Research Institute

Location – Santa Barbara, California, USA

Technique – Laser Confocal Scanning

Neurons growing over astrocytes in a human stem cell embryo body (20X)

By Juan Carlos Izpisúa

Affiliation – CMRB – Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona

Location – Barcelona, Spain

Technique – Confocal

Human Spinal Cord Neurosphere

By Mr. Micheal Weible

Affiliation – Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney

Location – Sydney, Australia

Technique – Widefield Illumination and Deconvolution

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“Life imitates art imitates life.”  Most of this photography is from Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition.  From their site:

Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world’s best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.

Scientists aren’t often known for creating great works of art, but it’s hard to argue that the photos above, and others like them, are not fascinating pieces that evoke a sense of excitement and mystery.
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  One of the reasons science may not have mainstream appeal is that it is often difficult to visualize and fails to inspire.
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  Hopefully these photos may ignite some passion within you!
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-RSB

Credit due via Biocanvas

Science Books of 2011

December 19th, 2011 | Brain, Robot, Space

Check out this link from io9.com.  There are some pretty interesting books on there.  A friend of mine just gave me The Information, so I’ll let you know how that is.

And 2 of the books were featured here on RobotSpaceBrain in the past few months here & here.

Happy Reading!

-RSB

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