I Want an Award

Clearly I have no shame about self promotion. Apparently I’m fine with solicitation as well: nominate me for a Bloggie award, please. What’s a Bloggie? Here’s the rap: The Bloggies™ are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony, with previous winners listed on their respective sites: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Everyone’s …

Biojewlery

A radical evolution from the spit handshake or blood brothers ritual, Biojewlery uses lab grown human bone tissue as a design material. Their intention is to have nuptial rings created from the bone tissue of both people to be wed. Now that the Modern Primitives are growing up, this seems like their ideal wedding band. via Régine

Eye of Science: Velcro

Looks organic, right? Like something you'd see in a nook on a coral reef? It's actually velcro. Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa are microphotographers who founded Eye of Science in 1994. Capturing everything from insects to velcro, their images help scientists (and the rest of us) make sense of the things too small to see with the naked eye. It's all done with Transmission-Electron Microscopy …