From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #49: Origami, bricks & culture
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** The Curious Corner #49
Hi there! A big welcome to this edition of the Curious Corner! Almost at fifty! I’m sure the next edition will include cake. Thanks for staying along so far!
If you like what I do, please feel free to share it with your friends! http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Share (http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Tweet (http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT| Share (http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|) https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| +1 (https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) |FORWARD| Forward to Friend (|FORWARD|) Here we go: * Art that is uncooked (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/06/the-art-of-madness/) by culture. * The white (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness) darkness. * Long exposure traffic lights (http://lucas-zimmermann.com/traffic-lights.html) . * The people (http://flowingdata.com/2018/02/09/people-font/) font. * Down, out, over & up. Or is south, west, east & north? Oh Texas (https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/being-texan-prepositions/) . * A galactic (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/what-if-gps-stood-for-galactic-positioning-system) positioning system? * A font inspired (http://signato.lt/en/) by the independence of Lithuania * Vesuvius (https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/dynamite-cruiser-vesuvius/) , a dynamite cruiser that’s one of kind! * Smoking (http://www.italianways.com/the-apennine-colossus/) statue. * Stamps from space (http://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/171375687176/soviet-sci-fi-stamp-collection) in Russia. * Voyages in sentence space (https://www.robinsloan.com/voyages-in-sentence-space/) . * A new species (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Macrobiotus_shonaicus) of tardigrades! My favourite animal!
http://conceptartworld.com/artists/donglu-yu/ * What black holes (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/8/16822272/black-hole-looks-like-what) really look like. * The beauty of bricks (https://www.instagram.com/solideode/) . * There are huge arrows (http://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/) in the US for navigating the air. * According to a tree (https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-left-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree-91993) , the anthropocene began in 1965. * Eau de Nil (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/13/eau-de-nil-light-green-color-egypt-obsessed-europe/) , a color from Egypt. * Realism (http://www.kateballis.com/infra-realism/) in infrared. * The 10000 year (https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/) clock is deployed! * Did you know we have orange juice (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16984460/citrus-fruits-genome-sequencing-himalayas-evolution-breeding) because of the Himalayas and climate change? * A burned out town (https://www.wikiwand.com/nl/Centralia_(Pennsylvania)) because of an underground fire. * X-rays of baseballs (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs/) . * How ants (https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/) build bridges, thanks Erik Visser (https://publicworks.nl/contact) ! * Great origami (http://white-onrice.com/work/) tutorials!
That’s it, thanks for reading! Let me know by email (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=A%20suggestion%20for%20the%20Curious%20Corner!&body=Hi%20Joost!) if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!
Joost
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