Bunny & Bird on Flickr.
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Photo Montage, 2012.
with help from William Pratt.
“Si erano costruiti un’amicizia difettosa e asimmetrica, fatta di lunghe assenze e di molto silenzio, uno spazio vuoto e pulito in cui entrambi potevano respirare…”
-La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi, Paolo Giordano, 2008.
tessuto teso on Flickr.
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Acrylic on Paper, 16”x20”, 2012.
avevi ragione on Flickr.
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Photo, altered, 2012.
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;”
-W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
ali desiderose on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Photo Montage, 2012.
Per Davide
“Last night I dreamt of a stranger. Of my man. Only with him could I be lonely. Open up to him. Completely open, completely for him. Welcome him completely into myself. Surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness. I know it is you.”
-Marion, Wings of Desire, Wim
Wenders & Peter Handke
G5 on Flickr.
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Acrylic on Mat Board, 16”x20”, 2012.
Gilles Vranckx
(via mudwerks)
Dentro Bianco on Flickr.
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Water Color/Guache on Paper, 2012.
“How would it be if we confronted each other unprotected by the double refraction represented by the interpreted body? If because nothing separating or adulterating stood between us, we tumbled into each other…”
-Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon.
![futurescope:
Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility
The only way that solar power is ever going to contribute an appreciable amount of energy to the betterment (and cheaperment) of society is if we plaster solar panels on everything, everywhere, all the time. And we might just be able to do it now, with this new generation of panels that are thinner than a strand of human hair by a factor of 20.
Thin doesn’t just mean lightweight (although these panels are very lightweight), it also means flexible. At 1.9 micrometers thick, the plastic foil cells are, for all practical purposes, elastic. So, you can layer them onto clothing, for example, and not only will you not be able to feel any additional weight, but the panels will be able to flex and crumple right along with the fabric without damaging anything.
Beyond applications requiring flexibility, solar cells that don’t take up any space and don’t weigh anything become an obvious thing to stick on to all sorts of surfaces just because you can. Back of a cellphone? Sure! Roof of your car? Sounds good! Bottom of your swimming pool? Why not!
The current generation of these cells can only convert 4.2% of sunlight into electricity (which is terrible, to be honest), but by the time commercial availability rolls around in five years or so, our hope is that that number will get bumped up enough to make it worthwhile to start putting this stuff on everything.
[via] [paper] [photo credit: Kaltenbrunner etal.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m206b9Uqu81r08k60o1_500.jpg)
Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility
The only way that solar power is ever going to contribute an appreciable amount of energy to the betterment (and cheaperment) of society is if we plaster solar panels on everything, everywhere, all the time. And we might just be able to do it now, with this new generation of panels that are thinner than a strand of human hair by a factor of 20.
Thin doesn’t just mean lightweight (although these panels are very lightweight), it also means flexible. At 1.9 micrometers thick, the plastic foil cells are, for all practical purposes, elastic. So, you can layer them onto clothing, for example, and not only will you not be able to feel any additional weight, but the panels will be able to flex and crumple right along with the fabric without damaging anything.
Beyond applications requiring flexibility, solar cells that don’t take up any space and don’t weigh anything become an obvious thing to stick on to all sorts of surfaces just because you can. Back of a cellphone? Sure! Roof of your car? Sounds good! Bottom of your swimming pool? Why not!
The current generation of these cells can only convert 4.2% of sunlight into electricity (which is terrible, to be honest), but by the time commercial availability rolls around in five years or so, our hope is that that number will get bumped up enough to make it worthwhile to start putting this stuff on everything.
(via emergentfutures)
Using black marker, Japanese artist Yosuke Goda painstakingly creates large-scale illustrations and murals with intense detail.
Serenata indiana on Flickr.
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Graphite on paper, 2012 (sketchbook)
“…Tu gli appartieni
e non lo sai. Sei lui, ti credi te.”
-Eugenio Montale, 1940
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