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(via DOJ sues eBay for ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion)

#coal #emissions #ebay #fines #DOJ

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#big oil #capitalism #climate #crisis

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(via Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Scientific American)

#water #garbage #plastic #ecosystems #ecology #ocean #art #art360

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(via WILLIAM ANASTASI Untitled Subway Drawing 2011 | Experiments in Figure Drawing)

Anastasi began producing intuited blind drawings, made with closed eyes while listening to music, to explore the relationship between sound and sight. Anastasi’s “Walking Drawings” and “Subway Drawings”, in which the act of walking and the motion of a subway car, respectively, dictate the movement of his hand, developed from the original blind drawings.

#drawing #performance #action #figure #body #machine

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Taking their form from the well known collection of 'Cyanotypes of British Algae', produced by Anna Atkins (1799-1871) in the 19th Century, these works explore various types of plant life that live inside video games, and virtual reality environments. Through performative and procedural explorations inside video games, as well as their file-structures, virtual plant life is identified and extracted, and then transposed to positive exposure film. The images of virtual plants, grasses, shrubs, trees and weeds are then exposed through real sunlight onto photosensitive paper, which is prepared by hand using the original 19th Century process. The result is a series of works that allow virtual imagery to merge with real-world physical materiality. The surfaces of these images records both jpeg artifacts, as well as blemishes and scars which result from the handmade production process. Each work is unique as the transparency film used in the exposure process is destroyed after the work is complete.

#plants #ecology #videogames #art #cyanotypes #flora

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904

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(via Bad Astronomy | The Curiosity rover sees Earth and Venus from Mars)

#pale blue dot #earth #mars #curiosity #nasa #rover #portrait #venus

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#folk games #tik tok #games #video #social #twitter

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(via Trovants of Costesti, Romania – Wallachia, Romania - Atlas Obscura)

#rocks #geology #romania #trovants

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(via Fal on Twitter: "みんな自粛で疲れてると思うので、少しでも元気になれればとチーズバーガーの風洞実験を置いておきます https://t.co/mkeZioPsqa" / Twitter)

#cheeseburger #wind tunnel

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#wind turbines #dump #garbage #recycling #wind #energy

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#public domain #zine

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(via Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds - The New York Times)

#cloud appreciation society #photography #art #clouds #kottke

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#transit #astrophotography #astronomy #sun #deeptime

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(via Ultra-Black Is the New Black - The New York Times)

#black #carbon #nanotubes #nytimes #art

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(via Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees - Issue 77: Underworlds  - Nautilus)

#trees #intelligence #consciousness #empathy #communication #chemicals

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The Size of Space

#scale #space #visualization #data #web #nealagarwal