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KEYZ Desktop Wallpaper

June 18th, 2012 | Robot

In anticipation of a new RobotSpaceBrain project titled, KEYZ, I created this Keyz Desktop Wallpaper for you.  If you can’t tell, these are keyboards, a WHOLE LOT of keyboards, that my friend Nick has collected over the years.
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We will be doing a bit of cataloging in the near future, including sound bites, videos and ratings for many of them.
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Look forward to more from this project in the summer and early fall.
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Click on the appropriate size below to download:

1280×800  — 1440×900 — 1690×1050 — 1920×1200 — 2560×1440 — iPhone — iPad

-RSB

The Mercenary

June 1st, 2012 | Robot

The Mercenary 1

The Mercenary 2

The Mercenary Saw

The Mercenary Deer

I would like really like to hire this mercenary model, fantastic!

These conceptual photographs are from Baldovino Barani, starring the Australian model, Morgan Hurst.

From Barani’s site:

Baldovino Barani’s photography has acquired somewhat of a cult status in recent years.  His often unsettling and fabulist allegories have interpreted the ever changing metamorphosis of the fashion seasons and showcased the work of this industry’s most talented designers.
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 Always striving to impose character driven stories, Baldovino Barani’s heroines have come to stand for a new type of editorial femininity: a seamless assimilation between orphic narrative and pure sartorial ecstasy.

This fembot is one intense assassin.
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 She’s really got it all – guns, fire, blood, a saw, and… antlers?  I’ll take two.

-RSB

Art of Neuroscience 2012

April 25th, 2012 | Brain

C.P.J. De Kock: Pyramid puzzle

Artistic rendering of a single pyramidal neuron of layer 5A of rat primary somatosensory cortex. These pyramidal neurons are involved in encoding whisker movement when the rat is actively exploring its environment. The part of the neuron receiving information from neighbouring neurons is shown in red; the part of the neuron sending information downstream is shown in blue. The green cylinders illustrate anatomical landmarks of the primary somatosensory cortex.
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The individual neurons are the basic units of the nervous system and through single cell reconstructions of these pieces of the puzzle; we aim to disentangle the intricate cortical microcircuit.

This may be my favorite.

J. Winnubst: Sleeper cell

When we are born our brains are already fully formed and will, to a large extent, determine our
feelings, personality and desires. In order to achieve this highly complex functionality, immature
neurons must venture out during their development and find the right cell partners to form synaptic
connections with. This process is aided by spontaneous network activity in the brain that tests and
refines the made connections. Some will stabilize while others are destined to be broken up. Shown
here is one of the ways spontaneous activity shapes and organizes connectivity: Synaptic inputs that
are close together on a neurons dendrite are more likely to carry similar information and are more
often co-active. The image illustrates how, even before the brain has become fully functional, a single
immature neuron is already tasked with finding order amongst the internal chaos of the mind.

The center of the image shows a labeled stretch of dendrite on which recorded calcium transients,
belonging to 2 co-activate synapses, are represented in a contour map. Meanwhile, in the background
you can see the large amount of synaptic activity happening in the surrounding network as Gaussian
centers of activation.

E. Cuadrado: Fried egg astrocytes

Astrocytes derived from immortalized human neurostem cells (ihNSC) that have been in culture for 21 days. Staining for cell nuclei (Hoechst, yellow) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP, green).

I love the color combination – looks like an old Dick Tracy cover.

S. Hoyng: Organised chaos

This picture represents a human dorsal root ganglion infected ex vivo with a lentiviral vector encoding for green fluorescent protein (GFP). With immunohistochemistry it has been stained with a neuronal marker (red), a nuclear protein marker (blue) and GFP (green). This tissue was obtained from a postmortem autopsy in collaboration with the Netherlands Brain Bank and cultured for an additional 14 days. It represents the beauty of a highly complex organization in a seemingly chaotic environment.
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“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”: Jackson Pollock

S. Louw: Cool thinking

The striking resemblance between a neuron and a hole in the ice. Notice the ice skaters on the horizon. This photo shows beauty of nature at multiple scales. This picture taken at the Gouwzee with the former insula Marken in the background.

Very serene.

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“The second annual Art of Neuroscience competition follows in the footsteps of other events, such as Nikon’s small world and Princeton’s Art of Science competitions. Our event brings art straight from Dutch neuroscience labs. Each year we participate in the Brain Awareness Week campaign (BAW). BAW is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.”

Neuroscience Art is probably some of my favorite things to post on the site, so I hope you enjoyed the images above.  There’s something interesting about realizing that these artists are using their brains to create art inspired by brains — it really is a beautiful thing.
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You can find more from the Art of Neuroscience 2012 here.  I would recommend scrolling through them all.  I just chose a few, but they are really all pretty great.

-RSB

Many Moons Embroidery

March 7th, 2012 | Space

Shaun Kardinal, based out of Seattle, Washington, is responsible for these fantastic embroidered Apollo images. He used photographs from an old Hasselblad catalog filled with astronauts from the late 1960’s missions that he had found in old antique store in his neighborhood.  From Kardinal:

I felt an immediate draw. Surely my love of Hasselblad’s cameras contributed to this, but there was a certain nostalgia I felt as well, even though I was born long after the events captured.
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I knew for certain that I had to take it home with me, that I would find a purpose for it within my work.
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That last image is of a Death Star if you didn’t notice…

I sure would love to find a magazine like that in an old store sometime.  And what Kardinal has done with the classic images is extraordinary.

For more images of the Apollo missions from Hasselblad, here is an online catalog.

-RSB

[via Design Milk]

Cosmonaut Couture

February 16th, 2012 | Space

Renowned fashion photographer Arthur Elgort shot these photographs, starring Russian supermodel Natalia Semanova,  for the December 1999 issue of Russian Vogue.  The images are taken in a Cosmonaut Training Center in the town of Star City, and all of the cosmonauts are real.

The shoot took place after the end of the Cold War, but I like to imagine that this is what the secret Soviet Space Program looked like.  It feels like James Bond.

And as one commenter noted:

“If russia used their women instead of weapons during the cold war, we’d all be wearing furry hats right now”

-RSB

[via Wired Science]

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