In the left, the original Jansen’s mechanism with it’s walking curve, and in the right, a simplified version.
A la izquierda, el mecanismo original de Jansen y su “curva de caminata”, y a la derecha una versión simplificada.
(vía fuckyeahmath)
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Are memes art?
To Mike Rugnetta at PBS Idea Channel, memes are people “creating images and sharing them with strangers for the purpose of communicating their experiences.”
Which, he says, “Is art. Plain and simple.”
In quoting famous philosophers, writers and thinkers such as Tolstoy, he may have actually convinced us.
Are you convinced? Will we see LOLCats on the walls of the world’s major art museums some day? Let us know in the comments.
Are LOLCats and Internet Memes Art? | Idea Channel | PBS (by pbsideachannel)
1937 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble peers though the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mt. Wilson Observatory. Originally published in the November 8, 1937, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)
Posted Abril 6, 2012 at 4:02pm in history dreams process technology science structure space
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1954 | Light beams create a contour map of a human head during an Air Force study of jet-pilot helmets. Originally published, as the cover image, on the December 6, 1954, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)
1952 | Riveted audience members enjoy opening night of the first full-length American 3-D feature film: the Arch Oboler-directed drama, Bwana Devil. Originally published in the December 15, 1952, issue of LIFE. (via LIFE Magazine’s Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century’s Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972 - LIFE)
1939 | Aerial view of a DC-4 passenger plane flying over midtown Manhattan. An almost identical photograph from this shoot was published in the June 19, 1939, issue of LIFE.
Read more: http://life.time.com/history/the-best-of-life-37-years-in-pictures/#ixzz1rGhl5DGT
Posted Abril 6, 2012 at 3:54pm in New York history technology vehicle landscape city photo
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If Twitter would have been invented in the 80s. (by SquirrelMonkeyCom)
