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By helen-butler on flickr.com

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That’s some draw-wing: Artist, Hasan Kalepaints amazing mini masterpieces on butterflies, snail shells, pasta and even plant spikes

Butterfly aficionados might have trouble identifying this species - on account of its rather unusual markings.

Closer examination of its wings reveals tiny birds soaring above minarets while men dressed in white row down a river.

The scene is Istanbul, the painter is Hasan Kale… and the butterfly is his canvas.

In fact, he can paint his intricate miniature masterpieces on the wings of any taxidermied insect.

Hasan, who has been working in miniature since the 1980s, also paints on pasta shells and seeds

As if that wasn’t challenging enough, the 53-year-old from Turkey can also create pictures on a single pumpkin seed, pasta, lump of sugar and a grain of rice.

He can even use lemon peel or sharp plant spikes for a canvas.

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Tai Chi / 5 video artworks for the Framed digital art display

Using body motion captured from a Tai Chi master,
a series of impossible physical sculptures embodying the human spirit.
The abstract anthropomorphic forms only emerge through movement.

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TomasáSaraceno at venice art biennale 09

Jun 09, 2009

‘galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web’ 2009 by tomas saraceno
made of elastic ropes
image © designboom

argentinian artist tomas saraceno is exhibiting his work ‘galaxies forming along
filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web’ as part of the ‘fare mondi’ /
making worlds / bantin duniyan / 制造世界 / weltenmachen / construire des mondes/
fazer mundos…exhibition.

saraceno’s interest in architectural projects is part of the artist’s ongoing fascination
with utopian theories and astronomical constellations. his conception of what constitutes
an architectural structure is admirably broad, and his new installation examines how
the black widow’s gossamer filaments are able to suspend extreme weights through

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biology fluorescence microscopy

source; natureofnature

1. This image depicts neural stem cells that were genetically modified with an engineered form of HIV. Visualized in green is a transgenic protein introduced by HIV; red is a stem cell stain, and blue depicts neuronal progeny.
2.  Cross-Section Tissue of Marram Grass Leaf
3. Image shows adult human fibroblast cells with intracellular proteins involved in adhesion of these cells to an extracellular matrix. Magenta represents actin stress fibers in a cell and green staining represents a focal adhesion protein vinculin, which together contribute to how strongly these cells adhere to a matrix surface. Blue is the nucleus of a cell.
4. Clematis vitalba
5. Human ovarian cancer cells stained for DNA (red) and microtubules (green).
6. Chicken embryo vascular system
7. Confocal micrograph showing the expression of different fluorescent proteins in the stem of a thale cress seedling (Arabidopsis thaliana).
8. Widefield image of a pilidium larvae of the Nemertean ribbon worm, Cerebratulus lacteus,
9. Acetabularia - gigantic single cell algae.

10. Confocal image of squid, Loligo pealei, embryo stained for for F-actin (green; phalloidin), Acetylated tubulin (red), anti-HRP (yellow), and DAPI (blue; nuclei)

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Heidi Mount Channels Daphne Guinness for S Magazine September 2012, Anthony Unwin,   Sebastian Kim ·

artworks by Faei

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The silence of dogs in cars by martin usborne

the little black gallery, london; 2013.

…influenced by a childhood memory of waiting in a car whilst his parents were shopping in a supermarket, london-based artist martin usborne’s photographs focus on the ever-curious relationship between humans and other animals. the project titled ‘the silence of dogs in cars’ captures
usborne’s expressive fear of being alone and unheard. documented in a series of portraits, the collection of images re-visits the scenario of
experiencing what the artist couldn’t bear as a child -  highlighting the many subtle reactions by dogs being left locked inside a vehicle:
some sad, some expectant, some angry, some dejected.

Collages by Nacho Ormaechea

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