Today is the 50th birthday of the first practical LED, an invention built on an understanding that has transformed our lives: enabling cheap, mass-produced and very hardy display and lighting technologies. A while back, GE produced a great piece of branded content featuring its inventor, Prof. Nick Holonyak, where he offers some insight into the […]
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50 Years of the LED
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Also tagged advice, branded content, GE, General Electric, invention, lasers, LED, light, Nick Holonyak, science
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Superhuman Babies
French artist Alexandre Nicolas has produced some quite beautiful sculptures of superheroes in a foetal state. The work comprises his 2008 series: PRÉDESTINÉS, working in his preferred media acrylic and resin. I think these pieces inherit a special fragility because we’d usually see these characters (Hulk; Silver Surfer; Batman etc) as fully-grown and badass, whereas here they are quite […]
Posted in Comics
Also tagged acrylic, Alexandre Nicolas, art, babies, Comics, exhibition, eye, gallery, photography, superhuman, toys, vinyl
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Typewriter Cocktail Machine
Excuse the continued delay to fresh posts here lately. I’m currently drafting a talk for a conference next month called Get Together – hosted by the Next Bigger Better Society – and truth told as it’s my first speaking gig I’d like the content to be as fresh as possible. I’ll be talking on the subject of technology and […]