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THE ZOOMQUILT | a collaborative art project

Jacket Grows From Living Tissue

“Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr at the Tissue Culture & Art Project are attempting to grow a semi-living jacket in an effort to create “victimless leather.” Hoping to highlight the possibility of wearing leather without killing an animal, the duo is presently focused on growing living tissue into a leather-like material and having it mature in the form of a miniature, stitchless, coat-like shape.

They’ll also be growing facial parts for Stelarc, an Australian artist who explores extending the body through prosthetics. The duo plans to grow a nose, lips and a shape of the eyes, connecting them to form a living mask that would either imitate a face or represent a mutation of it.”

found at jwz

A couple of interactive flash games submitted for YW by Sauceruney:

• AOOA
• Cool Flame
The first site is brilliant-genius-spooky.

Links for YW submitted by Sauceruney:

Exxonsecrets.org
How ExxonMobil funds the climate change skeptics

Colonel Blimp videos
(Cish Cash is especially impressive)

And Imaginail.com
For the first time you can decorate your nails with virtually any design and millions of colors-fast, clean and easy.

That actually looks fun!

Man Has 20-Feet Long Hair; Hasn’t Been Cut In 30 Years
“Normally tied up and covered by a scarf, his hair has grown four feet in the past seven years. He last had it washed six years ago.”

Submitted for YW by Burp.

A very shiny musical flash animation I found at Bifurcate Rivets.

Since our Lovely Hostess is on Holiday, we at Chapel Perilous have been requested to throw a link or two here in her absence.

It’s very, very hot here in Portland Oregon USA, and difficult to surf the web under the circumstances. Difficult to sit at a desk in a closed room and find nifty nuggets. But we’ll do our best with at least one a day.

I found this very interesting, and you might too, at least for the artwork!
mondo_imageoftheweek:
“Aerospace engineer Brad Edward’s plan for the space elevator centers on a carbon-nanotube-composite ribbon 62,000 mile long, 3 feet wide and thinner than a page of newsprint. The competing forces of gravity at the terrestrial end of the elevator and the centripetal acceleration at the deep-space end would keep the ribbon taut and stationary over a single position at Earth’s equator. Climbing vehicles powered by Earth based lasers striking solar cells would haul various payloads/cargo/astronauts to various orbits.”

But how does it counteract the effects of the Van Allen Belt?

Portrait Illustration Maker – Let’s make an original icon!!
(then let’s give it to Bsti for the Chapel Gallery!)

Yahoo! LAUNCH – Beastie Boys
New video. I like these guys because they about the same age as me and still cranking out quality music in a genre bent for the youngers.

You know, I read that they never actually expected to be anying but a local spectacle, even choosing the name because it sounded as stupid as, say, Angry Samoans, (whom I once loved) and putting out a parody track called Cookie Puss.

Funny how life works.