Happy Turkey Day! Illustration from Teeny Robots.
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Yusaku Kamekura – Japanese Graphic Art
November 22nd, 2011 | Space
Yusaku Kamekura (1915-1997) was one of Japan’s most prolific graphic designers. He is probably best-known for his 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games posters as Japan was still culturally shaken from the aftermath of the WWII, and Kamekura was tasked with creating a successful poster campaign to propel his country into the post-war design elite.
He has created countless magazine and book covers, signs, and prints. For his exhibition ‘The Universe of Curved and Straight Lines: Designs by Yusaku Kamekura’ he received the 25th Mainichi Arts Award in 1983. And I’m not sure how he picked up this one, but his nickname was “The Boss”…
I really enjoy his colorful brand of minimalism. His works gain a lot of depth with empty space and carefully placed lines.
You can find more of his work here – a blog dedicated to the history of graphic design in Japan.
This book published in 1973 covers two decades of his best work in the fields of posters, magazine & book covers, neon signs, and other graphics.
Images from the book can be found here.
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Homemade Spacecraft
November 18th, 2011 | Space
This video is from a father and son team called the Brooklyn Space Program. From their site:
The Brooklyn Space Program is a organization based in New York City dedicated to scientific experiments, engineering, design and education. Our interest is to inspire others and push the bounds of creativity and innovation.
This is a great example of your average citizen taking space exploration into his own hands! I was always under the impression that it would be virtually impossible to acquire the resources needed to send a craft into space, but I have been proven wrong. I hope this kid ends up being the first person on Mars…
Check out their site here.
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Indian Robot Fight Scene
November 17th, 2011 | Robot
Is this the best robot fight scene you’ve ever scene? I was skeptical at first, but by the end, I was won over. The scene hails from the Indian movie, Endhiran (translates to Robot in English), and IMDB only gives it a 6.6/10. Here is the plot summary:
Dr. Vasi (Rajnikanth) invents a super-powered robot, Chitti, in his own image. The scientific body, AIRD, that must approve the robot, declines it based on its not having emotions and the ability to make rational judgment. A sudden flash of lightning evokes emotions in the robot, and Chitti is seemingly ready for integration into the human world.
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Then, Chitti falls in love with Dr.
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Vasi’s fiancée Sana (Aishwarya Rai) and turns on his creator.
You can pick it up here if you feel so inclined.
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Art Inspired by Neuroscience
November 15th, 2011 | Brain
Greg Dunn is a 6th year Neuroscience PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and he is responsible for these wonderful paintings inspired by minimalist scroll and screen painting from the Edo Period in Japan. He paints neurons from different parts of the nervous system in the Asian sumi-e stytle and the results are amazing. He’s been commissioned to do pieces for a handful of Neuroscience departments around the country.
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Check out the rest of the work here. Also look for the scrolls and folding screens.
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Rick Perry – Scientifically Explained
November 14th, 2011 | Brain
The oops heard round the world. Patients with recurring, pathological problems retrieving a name or label from memory are said to suffer from anomia. But it’s something that happens to everyone occasionally. For Perry, it happened on the national stage last Wednesday at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Perry couldn’t remember the word “Energy” as one of the 3 federal agencies he’d like to cut if elected to the presidency.
Memory is stored throughout the brain, but names are typically known to be stored in the medial temporal lobe. People who have a stroke or tumor in this area can lose the ability to remember the names of their everything in their lives, even their children.
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Governor Perry appeared to have a temporary malfunction in the temporal lobe leading to his public gaffe.
MIT neuroscientist John Gabrieli stated that brain freeze is due to a mental block that has to be cleared away, somehow, before you can find the word you want.
“It’s not that you can’t get there, it’s that something’s blocking that, some other idea or word has come into your head.
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Until you clear that other thing, it’s hard to get back to that piece of information that you really know,” Gabrieli said.
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Apparently, the best thing to do in this sort of mental lapse is to relax and try to think about something else for a bit and wait for the memory to return. Of course, Perry didn’t have that luxury last week at the debate…
Check out the Times article explaining Governor Perry’s brain freeze here.
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