ZOMGscience.net

Not just a funny website about science, this is possibly the funniest fucking website concerning science I’ve ever read.

towerofsleep:

_{Shoveling pirated DVDs in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, April 20, 2008. From here.}

Hito Steyerl, In Defense of the Poor Image / Journal / e-flux

The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.

The poor image is a rag or a rip; an AVI or a JPEG, a lumpen proletarian in the class society of appearances, ranked and valued according to its resolution. The poor image has been uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted, and reedited. It transforms quality into accessibility, exhibition value into cult value, films into clips, contemplation into distraction. The image is liberated from the vaults of cinemas and archives and thrust into digital uncertainty, at the expense of its own substance. The poor image tends towards abstraction: it is a visual idea in its very becoming.

The poor image is an illicit fifth-generation bastard of an original image. Its genealogy is dubious. Its filenames are deliberately misspelled. It often defies patrimony, national culture, or indeed copyright. It is passed on as a lure, a decoy, an index, or as a reminder of its former visual self. It mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all. Only digital technology could produce such a dilapidated image in the first place.

Poor images are the contemporary Wretched of the Screen, the debris of audiovisual production, the trash that washes up on the digital economies’ shores. They testify to the violent dislocation, transferrals, and displacement of images—their acceleration and circulation within the vicious cycles of audiovisual capitalism. Poor images are dragged around the globe as commodities or their effigies, as gifts or as bounty. They spread pleasure or death threats, conspiracy theories or bootlegs, resistance or stultification. Poor images show the rare, the obvious, and the unbelievable—that is, if we can still manage to decipher it.

                                      [M Y  S E C R E T  D A Y  O F F]

fuckyeahbats:

via ihadtoomuchtodream: jackcaturio on flickr

“Hay fever sufferers can now see the face of their invisible enemy - thanks to these Scanning Electron Microscope images of pollen grains. A Swiss scientist named Martin Oeggerli, who uses the name Micronaut for his art, uses a Scanning Electron Microscope in his cellar to capture images of pollen grains. This picture shows a higher magnification of forget-me-not pollen on a petal.”

proofmathisbeautiful:

un:

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~TyrantWave

OH! Super Milk Chan (OH!スーパーミルクチャン, OH! Sūpā Miruku-chan)

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perfectvillain:

Új háttérképem lett ez a fantasztika.

Remélem még jókor szóltam!

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From Edu Barba’s flickr.

monstermadeofeyes:

slabbb-blockkk-hilarious:

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I thought this was some weird photo, but apparently it’s photoshopped. Who knew?

monstermadeofeyes:

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lesfauve:

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proofmathisbeautiful:

fuckyeahmath:

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Quote of truth.

physicsphysics:

thelonelyastronaut:

itsfullofstars:

mohandasgandhi:

Let’s go to Mars!

“Uphold science, eradicate superstition, 1999”

Chinese Space Program Posters

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ianultra:

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unknownskywalker:

Shores of Orion  © Artur Rosa

unknownskywalker:

Mars - just add water © Frieso J. Hoevelkamp

fuckyeahmath:

In mathematics, an algebraic number is a complex number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with rational (or equivalently, integer) coefficients.

Pictured above: Algebraic numbers colored by degree.