Six Easy Pieces by Reynold Reynolds
Posted: June 3rd, 2012 | Author: admin | Filed under: General, Inspiration, Time & decay | No Comments »Six Easy Pieces, 2010
Secret Machine, 2009
Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More
Posted: December 18th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal - Material, Artificial Bodies, Biomedicine, General, Human body, Inspiration, Life Sciences, Living tissue, Pig bladder, Recipes and magic formulas, Regeneration, Regenerative medicine | No Comments »“A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.”
Watch Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Veggies & bones
Posted: October 2nd, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Food, General, Inspiration | No Comments »
Food photography by Hans Gissinger
via http://www.stocklandmartel.com/talent/hans-gissinger/photography/
Inflatable armbands made from pig’s bladder
Posted: October 1st, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Animal - Material, General, Inspiration | No Comments »
"Neapolitanische Kinder beim Baden" (1879, 17 x 41 cm) by John Singer Sargent
A painting from 1879 showing children taking a bath in the ocean – one is wearing inflatable armbands made from pig’s bladder…
Seen in “art” – Das Kunstmagazin, August 2010, p. 106
The picture triggered several lines of thoughts:
– animals being used as materials for human fun/luxury/everyday objects
– natural/ecological materials vs. artificial materials (plastic)
Actually the material (pig bladder) is very interesting in itself. It was used for various purposed in earlier days…
– filled with air as a balloon
– as a membrane, like for example as a drumhead or as an airtight membrane inside a football
– in traditional cuisines
– as a container / packaging for transport (liquids, cheese, important documents)
Nowadays:
– extracellular matrix products for medical technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_bladder
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnblase