Greg Dunn’s Hippocampus

via boingboing
“That’s no dandelion. It’s a painted close-up of a slice of human hippocampus. Jessica Palmer at the Bioephemera blog introduced me to the gorgeous artwork of neuroscience grad student and painter Greg Dunn. His images of different neurons are really lovely…”
Read more at Bioephemera, and visit Dunn’s site too.

Image of the Day: Closed Cinema

I discovered this a few months ago, tucked between two buildings near where I live. Unframed, unadorned, and strongly striking an inner cord with me. Reminding me of an early study by Kandinsky, it has stuck with me, surfacing now and again in my mind. Unintentional creation? It is hard to say, and I will probably never find out. But, perhaps, it will surface again, repurposed.