Ran across this ad behind the shattered safety glass of a bus shelter while looking for something to eat light night in Brussels. Recall thinking, “interesting filter”.

Thanks to dentistry and materials research, printing bones is no longer a thing of the future. (Hit the image to zap over to gizmag) Got a nice archosaur skeletal? Print it!Now all we need is a tendon, muscles and organs printer, with that follow-up spark-of-life button.

Sergio Albiac takes live action videos, meta-tags them with emotions, stacks them behind a portrait and melds them together with painted brushstroke masks. The result is a wonderfully impressionist-like portrait that feels eerily fitting to our times…

Creative Applications has a great write-up, check it out.

Okay, peeps. Enough is enough. Every time I settle on my top 10 list of kick-ass palaeo artists / illustrators and cozily set back to trying to do something of similar caliber, another artist pops up rocks my world. Enter Loana Riboli via Fabio Manucci. If google translate is to be believed, he praises her work just as well as I would: incredible detail, beautiful and non-intrusive creature patterns and solid artistic compositions all wrapped up in an overall feeling of environmental balance. She also has some reasonable business sense, with that clearly legible credit tag. I’ll have to ditch my watermark approach for something like that.

Andrey Atuchin also gets his mention, but you all know him already!

The Software Studies Initiative presents a visual evolution of the pages of Popular Science (above) and Science. Fantastic and powerful image reflecting the reading habits of people like you and I. It would be interesting to have a more differentiated look at the graphics themselves. How many are  visual enhancements (glossies) and how many are informational graphics providing further editorial understanding? A central issue now that the digital bridge is being crossed: reader behavior can be quantified, illustration can be interacted with. Brave new worlds.

I’m back from a week of dexterous destruction. Yes, I’ve been renovating yet another residential object. Above one of the numerous patterns uncovered and destroyed in the process. Now, back to our regular programming.

I doubt I have to point any of my regular guests over to Heinrich’s blog, but… better safe than sorry. There’s an increasing quality of science writing among paleontologists and this series promises to continue raising the bar. The passion and spirit of exploration come across as clear as the technical explanations, thanks in part to very well laid out graphics like the one below. Click to beam on over…

I’ve plugged Nina before, and do so again happily. She’s at the forefront of open-licensed financing models, and this is a great overview of her experiences.

Today’s post is only indirectly relevant to non-photorealism… but this piece by Elliot Burns is a poignant illustration of how the imperfections of manual repetitions can take on their own meaning. The above image represents the first 5 lines of Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier written over itself 350 times, once for each British soldier killed in Afghanistan (as of 28/01/2011) – the original literal meaning is buried beneath an appealing visual texture. One is a catastrophe, one thousand is a statistic…

I’m not sure what I think about using such a patriotic, empire-adorning poem, but it certainly doesn’t reduce the work’s power.

Some very cool animal videos for those with motion and mechanics interest at the site Reference!Reference!

Would be cooler if the community could contribute and rate / metatag the videos… but still cool.

Communication of terms such as ‘non-commercial’ are being stirred up by Wired’s terms in releasing their staff-produced imagery under CC license. Ads on the page? no problem, just make sure you link back to the source article.A very pertinent issue…

I love CC, but this is one of its biggest underlying problems. Its reason for existence is to give people a way to make clear the terms under which they can share content. But those terms aren’t particularly clear to either the people creating CC content or using it.

Link from Alex Wild.

Very interesting paper on the efficiency of analyzing hemodynamics (blood flow). 2D schematic layouts and appropriate color palettes improve diagnostic performance over 3D models and rainbow color maps.

Wondering what I’m up to? Nothing very exciting I’m afraid.

I’m tracking a very difficult, eternally long shot for an art project. More soon…