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Man As Industrial Palace
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"In 1926 German physician, artist and writer Fritz Kahn created this fascinating chromolithograph of the human body and it’s imaginary inner workings. Conceived at a time when Germany was a world leader in the chemicals industry, Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) compartmentalized the body, creating rooms where workers diligently carried out the circulatory, digestive, metabolic and respiratory work of the body. In this modernist view of anatomy each input, be it air or food, was broken down into it’s individual elements." by Benjamin Starr

via visualnews.com

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.
Sticking to It...A Balancing Art
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How Rich Is Congress ?
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"Congress is big news these days. For what, we’re not really sure seeing as how they don’t seem to get much done, but the fact remains, Congress is big news. Also big news…the fact that Americans are remarkably broke these days. No matter how hard we work, it still seems to be just enough to put food on the table and iPods in our Burberry backpacks.

Meanwhile, as this highly entertaing infographic from the people at Online Schools explains, Congress is ballin’ out of control. Must be nice."

by Adam Tod Brown via thesmokingjacket.com
Playing the Bazantar
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- 08May11 Inventions Musical Instruments Youtube
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"Invented by Mark Deutsch, the Bazantar is a five-string acoustic bass, fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The instrument possesses a melodic range of over five octaves, while its sympathetic range spans four octaves. This results in an interplay between melodic, sympathetic, and drone strings which weaves an unexpected landscape of resonance that is remarkably rich in texture. The extraordinary resonant sound of the Bazantar, whether bowed or plucked, is different from anything else you have heard. Whether the bass half of this symbiotic creature is growling in the contraoctave, or singing two to three octaves higher up, there is an unsurpassed richness in sound. Visit Mark's website at www.bazantar.com for more information about the Bazantar and the music he weaves with it."

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"The Painted Bird, the First Movement of the Composition "Fool..." continues the musical journey from the universal to the intimate as it darkens both the emotional and musical tones. The first piece on the album to feature the bazantar www.bazantar.com, The Painted Bird, is a remarkable introduction to the instrument, as it is comprised of the simultaneous depth of the double bass and frenetic highs of the sympathetic strings. The result is a composition of passionate heroism and struggle.

Fool... Timeline and song samples at http://www.bazantar.com/chart.html#
The Tinkerer’s Handbook
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The Nominally-Essential Tinkerer’s Handbook, a magazine in eight parts.

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Happy Mothers Day
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M - O - T - H - E - R by Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

"M" is for the million things she gave me,

"O" means only that she's growing old,

"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,

"H" is for her heart of purest gold;

"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,

"R" means right, and right she'll always be,

Put them all together, they spell

"MOTHER,"

A word that means the world to me.

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More Evidence of Liquid Erosion on Mars?
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Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona

"Terby Crater, a 170-km-wide (100-mile-wide) crater located on the northern edge of the vast Hellas Planitia basin in Mars’ southern hemisphere, is edged by variable-toned layers of sedimentary rock – possibly laid down over millennia of submersion beneath standing water. This image (false-color) from the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a portion of Terby’s northern wall with what clearly looks like liquid-formed gullies slicing through the rock layers, branching from the upper levels into a main channel that flows downward, depositing a fan of material at the wall’s base.

But, looks can be deceiving…"

via universetoday.com

Man As Industrial Palace

Sticking to It...A Balancing Art

How Rich Is Congress ?

Playing the Bazantar

The Tinkerer’s Handbook

Happy Mothers Day

More Evidence of Liquid Erosion on Mars?

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