Tag: animals

This is on dis­play at Yes Nat­u­ral­ly, the exhib­it in The Hague also show­ing Pig Chase. Overblown as art, per­haps, but intrigu­ing nonetheless—a her­mit crab who’s made his home in a japan­ese gold­en mask.

Edit: Hein tells me it’s not a japan­ese mask, but in fact a repli­ca of Bran­cusi’s A Muse. Goes to show how much I know…

(via PIERRE HUYGHE | esther schip­per)

The mobile ani­mal MRI [Mag­net­ic Res­o­nance Imag­ing] unit scours the coun­try­side look­ing for the most beau­ti­ful exam­ples of cows, pigs, chick­ens and oth­er live­stock. Once locat­ed, the crea­ture is scanned from head to toe, cre­at­ing accu­rate cross-sec­tion­al images of its inner organs. The most inter­est­ing and aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing exam­ples of anato­my are used as tem­plates to cre­ate moulds for the in-vit­ro meat (we wouldn’t choose to eat the same old bor­ing parts that we eat today). The result is a sat­is­fy­ing­ly com­pli­cat­ed and authen­tic form of food. (via Dress­ing the Meat of Tomor­row < James King)

(via Fal­con­er Cafe in Mita­ka, Japan with Roll with Jen)

Cat cafes are a famil­iar phe­nom­e­non for those keep­ing track of Japan’s many quirks. But this fal­con­er cafe takes intra-species frat­er­niza­tion to a whole new level.

(Orig­i­nal­ly found via Chris Heathcote.)

Design stu­dio Super­flux has made edi­ble christ­mas cards using some­thing called fruit leather. Most are mod­eled after ani­mals of var­i­ous kinds. 

(via Lim­it­ed Edi­tion Edi­ble Christ­mas Cards | super­flux)

The final ball, which will pro­duced by repli­cat­ing the same tech­niques used to cre­ate arti­fi­cial human organs, encour­ages us to con­sid­er the role life sci­ences will have in our dai­ly lives today and in the future. It is also a ref­er­ence to the col­lid­ing worlds of human enhance­ment, the bio-tech­nol­o­gy indus­try and the glob­al cap­i­tal­iza­tion of sport, which have become high­ly con­test­ed areas.

(via About Pigs Blad­der Foot­ball)