The Heart Urchin Pea Crab
Collaboration between Morphologic and Animal Collective. Beautiful Stuff
It Runs in the Family
My dad next to a roto vaporizer machine. Fast-forward 20 years and I’m following in his footsteps…except whereas he’s probably creating the next miracle drug, I’m using the machine to make tomato soup.
Science runs deep in the Dong family. I’m essentially the first to venture out into the dangerous and uncharted territory that is a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Despite this seemingly rebellious move, I was once a double-major in Biology before I realized that you can’t spend 6 hours in studio and 6 hours in a lab everyday without going insane.
One of the biggest things I’ve realized in design is that you don’t have to have a major in something to be an expert on it. I’m much more interested in the big picture and practical application of science as opposed to nitty-gritty details. Throughout college it’s been a smash-and-grab of taking the science extracurriculars with the important knowledge and leaving the rest. Plus, hells if I’m ever going through Organic Chemistry (there’s computers for that crap).
Jellyfish Lake, Palau
“Twelve thousand years ago these jellyfish became trapped in a natural basin on the island when the ocean receded. With no predators amongst them for thousands of years, they evolved into a new species that lost most of their stinging ability as they no longer had to protect themselves.”
This is amazing. Read more about the evolution of these jellyfish on Sarosh Jacob’s actual vimeo.
Genetics and Motion Graphics, a lovely couple :)
"The species of whale known as the Black Right Whale has four kilos of brains and 1,000 kilos of testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about."
— John Lien
This semester I’m taking a class called Art & Biology (yes I am very excited). For the first day we watched a video of Leonard Shlain’s lecture on Physics and Art. It was a really great explanation of how the different movements in both art and science have coincided throughout history. The lecture completely made me rethink my understanding of Picasso, Manet, Pollock etc. in terms of space, time, and light. It also demonstrated that science follows fashion just as much as art does.
(Above: Jackson Pollock vs. Cloud Chamber)
"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate."
— Henry J. Tillman
