When Scientists Get Accidentally Artsy
A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History lies right at the intersection of art and science, showcasing the inherent beauty of skeletons — that is, fish skeletons.
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A Gastropod using it’s Radula (A structure that some molluscs use to rake/scrape things into their mouth).
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Nice animation of the operating scheme of coronary circulation.
Seen at Trust me, I’m a “Biologist”
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OCTOPUS BEAK
This perfect gradient from soft to hard tissue is seen almost nowhere else in nature, and prevents the beak from being easily torn loose without a skeleton to connect with.
one of my great nineties kids’ memories is staying up late to watch MTV Amp and seeing THIS and the music video for Kraftwerk’s The Robots.
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An Unwelcome Guest [Wasteman]
Jason Fairclough [Thunderchild Miniatures]
Continuing and in fact ending today’s inadvertent theme of models sculpted by chaps I actually know [except the Khorgorath- no idea who sculpted that] here’s An Unwelcome Guest, who bears absolutely no resemblance to any multi-dimensional coffee-hunting beings made by any musical talents. Nope.
I didn’t think this was actually going to be cast and sold when it first got sculpted, so it was a pleasant surprise that I jumped on straight away. Zilt- An Unwelcome Guest doesn’t have a lot of extravagant detail and so is a very quick and fun paint. Right out of the blister, he came with a stat card for the game Wasteman and a default base- this was a flat plastic disc that’s honestly too small for this mini, so I pinned him to one of GW’s new 32mm rounds- my current go-to for display miniatures of this size- with a circle of wire mesh for suitably sci-fi decking. The colours were cribbed entirely from a hand puppet and an album belonging to my partner, which both depict a suspiciously similar creature. It’s probably a coincidence though.
Cephalopoda mandala made with paintstorm
With the new Kickstarter collection, we now have 37 species of tiny metal skulls!
Let us know your favorites and what you’d like to see in our next collection!
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