more gig posters

There's a new set of scientific "gig" posters produced by the folks over at UNC Chapel Hill Biology department and screenprinting company The Merch. Love it.

(Previously)

Update: Boingboing also posted some rad "steampunk" posters commemorating some famous rock star scientists. It's missing a few of the chemistry greats, though. I would buy a Linus Pauling one fo'sho.

artsy!

So cool! I have thus far resisted following the TED talks (and all of their many offspring), but this looks really neat:

(via boingboing)



Kate Nichols is an American painter who was an "artist-in-residence" at the Alivisatos lab in Berkley (I blogged about some of their work this summer).

She used nanoparticles made in the lab to produce what she calls "structural color," aiming to emulate the iridescence found naturally in butterfly wings.

In the above photo, she's used silver nanoparticles with microscope slides. The size-dependent plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles is what gives the piece the iridescent colour. Here's a electron micrograph of the nanoparticles used in the piece:



Man, I am totally going to go bug my boss about using some of our samples in an art piece.

Actually, the Art Gallery in Edmonton (which was recently completely rebuilt, Frank Gehry-style- check out some pictures of it) recently had a really cheesy exhibit where they had the microelectronics fabriciation facility at school build them some sort of NEMS device on a Si wafer and put it on display. You couldn't see anything other than the shiny piece of silicon and no one other than me had any idea the coolness it represented. That made me slightly embarrassed for nanoart. This makes me excited.

Lecture "Gig posters"

As a lover of both science and music concerts, I am desperately in love with this series of posters put out by UNC's Biology Department for visiting scientists.

They're printed by Chapel Hill screenprinters The Merch. I would totally put that on my wall!

(via BoingBoing)