Once a thriving hub of industry, the textile mill now stands abandoned but still home to hundreds of color coordinated yarns.
The looms have stood unused for decades and the mill’s machinery is rusting away [since its closure in late 1980].
These images were taken by photographer Dan Circa, 29, after he was intrigued by the mill, located in Tal-y-bont, near Aberystwyth, Wales.
Via Mail Online for more photos.
A cyanometer (from cyan and -meter) is an instrument for measuring ‘blueness’, specifically the colour intensity of blue sky.
It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed in graduated shades of blue and arranged in a color circle or square that can be held up and compared to the color of the sky.
De Saussure is credited with inventing the cyanometer in 1789. De Saussure’s cyanometer had 53 sections, ranging from white to varying shades of blue (dyed with Prussian blue) and then to black, arranged in a circle.
De Saussure concluded, correctly, that the color of the sky was dependent on the amount of suspended particles in the atmosphere.
Image via Colossal.
Portrait via Wikimedia Commons.
Quoted text via Wikipedia.
Experimental electronic textile project by Judit Eszter Karpati with fabric that changes it’s colors with the help of an Arduino open-source platform.
The dynamic changes in the textile color derive from processed sound files. Silkscreen was used to cover the textile in a dye that changes with temperature. Sound makes the nichrome wires woven into the fabric heat up, changing the pattern.
Via Chromosonic.
[E]ach design features unique, hinged opening mechanisms. This avoids the need for buying an over-sized band to gain knuckle clearance and can be a vital performance and safety feature in many professions or sports- places where all jewelry must be removed prior to activity.
It also allows easy removal for washing hands, showering or even sleeping. These special features contribute to functional, modern art pieces.
Every functional part is machined from American made, aircraft grade 6-4 Titanium.
Via McWhinney Designs.
Endowed with a startlingly lifelike appearance, full-size, and lovingly detailed, these wax models, popular through the 18th and 19th centuries, represented idealized beauties with body parts and organs that could be revealed and removed in a layer-by-layer dissection.
Made with real hair, sometimes real eyelashes, glass eyes, bedecked with pearls, they were meant to enlighten the public on the anatomy of the animal “made in God’s image”, in a way that would be accessible and aesthetically pleasing.
The pearl necklace is a particularly nice touch.
Via Synesthesia Garden.
For a few brief decades of human history, just before combustion engines and motorcycles and cars burst onto the scene, the bicycle was the most advanced personal land vehicle around.
They were wonders of technology and personal style—as these beautiful ads show.
Via Gizmodo for even more examples of the fusion of art and advertising.
People who suffer from chronic constipation often turn to laxatives to get things moving again, but sometimes even that won’t do the trick. [A] new type of pill takes a completely different approach to this human plumbing problem, by physically stimulating the bowel from within to get some action going.
The tiny pill doesn’t contain any medicine, but does have a tiny electric motor that makes the entire capsule vibrate. The patient swallows the pill, which then starts to vibrate about six to eight hours later.
By this time, the pill will have gone past the stomach and entered the intestines, where the vibrations stimulate the intestinal walls to begin contractions.
Via DVICE.
