3 notes
Intimate lectures featuring the world’s top creative talents. We host Lunch Talks once a month(ish). They are designed to foster knowledge, sharing and casual conversation with other friendly, creative people while enjoying some yummy food and beer. Best of all, Lunch Talks are free and open to all!
10,922 notes
175 notes
78 notes
3,246 notes
255 notes
36 notes
4,472 notes
Wayne Thiebaud - Ripley St. Ridge
1976, oil on canvas - 28 x 20 in. (71.1 x 50.8 cm.)
(via scotchjazzdusk)
39,651 notes
89,592 notes
87,855 notes
NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever.
You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.
Two of NASA’s space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), miraculously observed a black hole’s corona “launched” away from the supermassive black hole. Then a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed out. So, what exactly happened? That’s what scientists are trying to figure out now.
“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,” Dan Wilkins, of Saint Mary’s University, said. “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”
NuSTAR’s principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, noted that the nature of the energetic source is “mysterious,” but added that the ability to actually record the event should provide some clues about the black hole’s size and structure, along with (hopefully) some fresh intel on how black holes function. Luckily for us, this black hole is still 324 million light-years away.
So, no matter what strange things it’s doing, it shouldn’t have any effect on our corner of the universe.
NASA : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4753
(via sweetclemency)
3,246 notes
208 notes
(via product)
2,947 notes
Mirrors Robin Cerutti
Robin Cerutti has followed a rather unique career path; other than being a very talented photographer, he holds a doctorate in nanophysics and worked in both fields concurrently until this past January. In 2006, while working for IBM in New York, his work started to emerge, be recognized and requested in the art/fashion scene. He now lives in Montreal, Canada and specializes in portraits, fashion and in what he calls “urban discovery”. Through his portraits he is able to express life in a powerful visual language and, through his exploration, reaches and surpasses the limits of conventional photography –without losing the notion of reality and humanity. Since 2009 Robin has been studying the close relationship between people, physical space and water; and experimenting in original ways to combine water and people in natural, original environments.
Images and text via Robin Cerutti
(via parkavenuearmory)
3,294 notes
- Design Reference Library is a collection of creative inspiration and resources by Justin Pocta