Nerve takes a look at the many actresses and actors who have appeared on both Orange Is The New Black and Law & Order and/or any of its franchise shows, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. There are at least 31, but probably more.
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Leo Morten Lund demonstrates how to quickly peel a bucket of potatoes in about 50 seconds. Leo achieved this by attaching a (new and clean) toilet brush to a power drill, filling a bucket with some water, dumping the potatoes in, and letting the drill rip inside of the bucket as he shredded the outer layer of skin off of each potato.
video via Peter Stephan
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“The Slap” is a short film by Max Landis about a series of acquaintances and strangers slapping each other. Though initially started as a sort of parody to the short film “FIRST KISS” by Tatia Pilieva, “THE SLAP” eventually evolved into something different according to Landis.
I gathered acquaintances, friends both casual and close, paired them randomly, put them in a void, and asked them to hit each other in the face. No one was pressured, and everyone was hit as hard as THEY asked to be hit.
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Back in 2012, we posted about the pithy hand-painted street messages of United Kingdom street artist Mobstr. Over the past two years the artist has created quite a few more, many of which are very clever indeed. Mobstr has also created art for indoor display. Some of those works are available for purchase online.
photos via Mobstr
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photo Jason Chinn
With the Bay Lights as a glittering backdrop, the Flaming Lotus Girls have installed their beautiful and interactive 2009 sculpture, “Soma”, at Pier 14.
San Francisco has been showcasing art at Pier 14 for a while now and Soma is the third art piece to have debuted in Black Rock City that will now grace this breathtaking corner of the City. The piece was installed over the last two weeks and has already become the toast of San Francisco.
The sculpture is 60 ft long, dendrite to dendrite “depicting two communicating neurons connected by an axon bridge. A soma is the cell body of a neuron, with branching dendrites projecting away at different angles, and an axon which conducts the nerve signal electrochemically to its neighboring cell.”
Soma is the combined work of over 100 Flaming Lotus Girls volunteers and the fire that glowed on the playa has been replaced with 97 LED lights that mix wonderfully with Leo Villareal’s Bay Lights behind them.
The Flaming Lotus Girl’s Soma site describes Soma as a sculpture that
… represents the communication between two neurons: She transforms the neuronal flow of electricity that forms the foundation of consciousness from a molecular to a monumental scale.
Built of stainless steel and LEDs, SOMA leads us to ask fundamental questions about human thought and neurological transmission. What is consciousness? What is communication? How does our physical and cultural environment shape us? What makes us human? Soma invites us to explore individual, collective and cosmic consciousness, the ego, and the hidden potential within us all for a more connected future.
The Black Rock Arts Foundation was instrumental in collaborating with the Flaming Lotus Girls to have the piece installed at Pier 14.
Originally displayed at Burning Man in 2009, Soma is an interactive sculptural installation depicting two communicating neurons connected by an axon bridge. A soma is the cell body of a neuron, with branching dendrites projecting away at different angles, and an axon which conducts the nerve signal electrochemically to its neighboring cell.
Soma translates the anatomy of neurons into metal, fire and light, magnifying the microscopic world to an epic scale. In this urban installation, Soma features interactive LEDs to create a spectacular daytime and nighttime experience. Soma is made entirely of stainless steel and a waterproof 12V lighting system. It occupies a 28′ high x 40′ long x 25′ wide rectangular footprint, secured to the ground beneath each nucleus with concrete anchors, covered by wooden platforms. Its weather resistant, stainless steel body features 70 custom LED units, each outputting 270 lumens of light. Each LED unit is mounted inside a unique resin casting. The LED units are individually controllable and capable of producing 16 million colors. The public can interact with Soma’s computer-controlled LED system by pushing buttons to activate the trans-synaptic action potential simulation. The on-board computer system can be remotely controlled and configured to automatically respond to factors such as time of day, lighting conditions or special events.”
Soma will be the third piece installed by BRAF in the Pier 14 Tidal Plaza on San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront. BRAF previously collaborated with the Port of San Francisco in 2007 to bring Passage by Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann and in 2010 to bring the Raygun Gothic Rocketship by Sean Orlando, David Shulman, Nathaniel Taylor, Alan Rorie, and the Five Ton Crane crew to the same location.
Photo by Adin Miller
Media coverage has included KPIX, SFGate and SFIst.
Soma was built at the Boxshop and has been installed at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Black Rocky City, and at San Mateo, California’s Maker Faire. The Flaming Lotus Girls, some original Soma builders and a bunch of new people – a few who were personally touched by Soma on the playa, worked for just under two years from proposal to completion, to bring Soma to the Embarcadero. The process involved a lot of re-fabrication of the sculpture including the removal of fire, changing out all the LEDs, adding new resin and UV-resistant bulbs, then waterproofing the whole thing and making the piece City and “public” safe. (Please do not climb on the sculpture!) There are two buttons that allow participants to interact with the LEDs that are active from dusk until 2am.
It required a lot of work and money to make Soma City ready and if you would like to support this project, it would be greatly appreciated. You can go directly to Soma’s website or you can donate through the Black Rock Art’s Foundation at their Click and Pledge page.
The Flaming Lotus Girls are throwing a Soma@Pier 14 – A Cerebral Celebration, August 1st to celebrate the installation.
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Directed by New York City graphic designer Paul Sahre, the new music video for “Tesla” by They Might Be Giants arrives with nine different audio/video remixes. The song, taken from the Brooklyn band’s new compilation record Idlewild, centers around inventor Nikola Tesla, and the visuals tangentially match the subject matter, including footage of a Tesla-impersonator skateboarding through the streets of NYC and a teddy bear lit on fire with jumper cables.
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June 3rd, 2014: This comic was inspired by a Twitter post I made the other night when I first opened my mind and stumbled upon this conspiracy! Thanks to everyone who replied for pointing out other inconsistencies in the "official history". Together we'll bring the truth to light, I swear it. – Ryan | |||
Artist Michelle Mckinney uses translucent woven metal to create remarkably delicate leaves, butterflies, and other natural forms which she arranges in beautiful abstract sculptures. She has more work on her Facebook page.
photos via Michelle Mckinney
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MattIt's a bit like my VR experiment!
“Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, N°2″ is an interactive installation that tasks participants with navigating a room filled with more than 400 swinging pendulums. In the process of avoiding the pendulums, the participants dodge and sway rhythmically — in other words, they dance. The installation was created back in 2013 by choreographer William Forsythe, and it was most recently displayed at the Brighton Festival in the United Kingdom earlier in May.
photo by Victor Frankowski
photo by Victor Frankowski
photo by Victor Frankowski
photo via William Forsythe
In his series “Pencilism,” Miami-based artist Federico Uribe has created an astonishing array of sculptures out of colored pencils. The works include abstract and figurative sculptures as well as two-dimensional works that look like paintings. We previously posted about Uribe’s incredible rug made out of electronic components.
photos via Federico Uribe
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In this video posted in 2013 by Alan Palesko, a very clever tuxedo cat named Moe plays a rather respectable game of Jenga with his human, until he makes it clear that he’s had enough.
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Artist Barry Underwood uses light painting techniques and other photographic effects to create stunning staged landscape photographs. To create each image, Underwood builds sets and places LED lights and luminescent materials in a process that can take several days. Underwood’s work will be on display at his solo show, “Scenes,” at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York City, May 29th to July 12th, 2014.
I created this series of installations by researching local agricultural, industrial, and recreational land-use. Curiosity about ecological and social history of specific places drives my work. By revealing the beauty and potential of an ordinary landscape an everyday scene is transformed into a memorable, visual experience. Each photograph image is a dialogue – the result of my direct encounter with nature and history. Inspired by land art, landscape photography and painting, as well as cinema, my images are both surreal and familiar. This tension between the familiar and the surreal gives the images a strange power.
photos by Barry Underwood
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Created by Denver illustrator Evan Lorenzen, The Mini Book of Major Events is a finger-sized picture book that attempts to distill the major events of the world’s history into a few key pages. On the first page “life arises” and by the end, it’s “first contact,” with “extinction,” “agriculture” and more filling the pages between.
photos via Evan Lorenzen
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In this amusing video by Kenny Kim, a man (perhaps Kenny?) plays his cat Sketchie like a set of bagpipes, while music made by that same instrument is played simultaneously in the background.
Artist Andres Amador created “Mussels II,” a gorgeous large scale sand art installation at Ocean Beach in San Francisco last Saturday. The temporary installation was created by Amador and an assistant in just two hours. For more of Amador’s sand art, see our previous post.
photos by Fabien Bouchard
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Dialect coach Andrew Jack offers a tour of the British Isles through the various accents of its residents in this fascinating short video. Jack has provided dialect training on many film and theater projects, including the Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which he developed the Middle Earth accents. The video was created by PJamBarker and is based on a BBC Radio 4 feature.
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MattWant! (And sorry for the ballcups if you get them.)
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MattPretty data! (And Rochester's on there.)
On and Off the Street Grid: Relative Distributions of Road Orientations
Portland, Oregon-based scientist Seth Kadish created a series of graphics comparing the relative directions of urban road networks. Kadish calculated the azimuth of every street within the city-counties using a sinusoidal map projection, and then graphed this against the cardinal directions depending on the longitude of the area. The result showcases which areas more strictly adhered to some sort of grid plan and which did not.
All calculations were made in a sinusoidal map projection using the central longitude of the area of interest. I then graphed the angles on rose diagrams (wind roses) using bins of 5° to show relative distributions for each area. The plots were scaled such that the maximum bar height was the same on each rose. To ensure rotational symmetry in the plots, each azimuth was counted twice: once using the original value and once using the opposite direction (e.g., 35° and 215°). As such, all streets, regardless of one-way or two-way traffic, were considered to be pointing in both directions.
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MattKinda related - was at a Nerd Nite talk. In case you were wondering, American Sign Language for butt plug (or might have been beads) is hilarious.
The large mirror-tiles are 150km squared, and the small ones are 100km squared.
They are all 10 km thick with glass (with an IOR of 1.56)
There are 3012 mirrored tiles.
"They mutually thrashed their softest, most vulnerable parts about in a normal attempt to seek pleasure at the other's expense.""Their mouths, which mere minutes before had been employed in the process of demolishing and ingesting various foodstuffs, were now jammed up damply against one another while still being used for breathing, which must have been more than a little uncomfortable."
"Bits of one jammed into bits of the other, dangerously close to some of the weakest and most important internal organs."
"With absolutely no regard for personal space, the two of them created an unnecessary amount of friction, generating sweat in the process."
"Some sort of gel emerged."
"One sat upon the other, like furniture that sneaks inside of your body."
"Her genitals engulfed his for some arcane purpose."
"One of them put their teeth-cave directly over the other's fleshiest appendage, but did not bite it."
"His genitals emerged from his body with no protection whatever, so that any passing bird could have easily swooped down and carried them off in its beak."
"They licked one another as if they were food, but they were not food."
"They took off their clothes, leaving their soft and hairless skin exposed to dust, wind, cold, and various other deadly elements."
"Jostling occurred for an extended period of time, then silence."
"Everything was just a mess."
"Various parts inched forward, then retracted, rather as turtles do."
"Together they put all of their clothes in a pile on the floor, where the dog lives."
"Only hours before he had used the very same appurtenance to urinate. He had not washed it in any significant way before inserting it into the other human's body."
"They writhed together like a Chinese finger trap."
