A Record of Life
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks authored a nice short movie: "A Record of Life". What is it about?Triceratops, Volcano, Iguanodon. Shark, Jellyfishes, Buffalo. "A Record of Life" isn't all about geology,...
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Geological Observatory of Coldigioco: where art meets science
<< It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident. >>— Theodor AdornoGeology is expressed in art through a plethora of media, styles and movements. For instance, it...
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Wearable Trilobites: a Prehistoric Update
In a recent post I discussed about 'wearable trilobites', that are trilobites used as items of personal adornment. The oldest example of ‘trilobitic fashion accessory’ is the drilled fossil that has...
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Foraminiferal Sculpture Park: a question of scales
Geological objects extend over a wide scale range: from tectonic plates to mountains, from glaciers to sand grains. Intriguingly, distant scale ranges are often interconnected and the same phenomenon...
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Coprolite time!
From the Paleolithic fossil pendant to Hannah Ingalls's wooly trilobite, geologic objects are often used as items of personal adornment. For this reason, it should sound trivial to speak - again! - of...
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Coldigioco Geological Observatory: winter holidays special issue
Mountains, traditional cuisine, natural landscapes, snow-covered trees: It’s Winter Holidays time!Placed on a tiny hilltop, the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco is the ideal place to celebrate this...
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The Microscopic Landscapes of Bernardo Cesare
It is an old canon of art, that every scene worth painting must have something of the sublime, the beautiful, or the picturesque. By its nature, photography can make no pretensions to represent the...
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GeoArt on National Geographic!
In the past issue I asked Bernardo Cesare "What are your dreams as an artist and a geologist?". Bernardo answered: "the dream of dreams is an article in National Geographic..."His dream come true!...
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A Geological Theory of Painting: John Ruskin's Modern Painters
“[The laws of the organization of the earth] are in the landscape the foundation of all other thruths – the most necessary, therefore, even if they were not in themselves attractive; but they are as...
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Music from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Björk
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is one of the most impressive geological features of our planet. Extending for more than 40,000 km, it represents one of the major tectonic boundaries of the Earth. In fact, at...
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Art or Science? Geology!
Arte o Scienza ('Art or Science') is a photographic contest supported by the University of Trieste. It aims to build awareness of scientific culture and promotes the relationship between Art and...
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The Mineralogical Record Museum of Art
What happens to usIs irrelevant to the world’s geologyBut what happens to the world’s geologyIs not irrelevant to us.We must reconcile ourselves to the stones,Not the stones to us.[…]- Hugh...
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From musical to technological fossils
Fossils are not only palaeontological objects, but evocative cultural symbols.For instance, the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote The Carnival of the Animals, a musical suite of...
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Links
By the end of 1990, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee had developed the first web server, web browser and web pages. Nowadays, after more than 20 years of World Wide Web, hyperlinks are so pervasive to be...
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Dinosaurs invade the Visconti Castle
The cover of 'The First Fossil Hunters' by Adrienne Mayor."The First Fossil Hunters" (Mayor, 2001) is one of the best books to explore the wonders of ancient palaeontology. The first edition of this...
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A Wax Kaleidoscope for the Carboniferous
More than 300 million of years ago, during the Carboniferous period, humongous insects and gigantic amphibians populated vast, swampy forests. These inextricable habitats originated vast deposits of...
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Paleoartistic Highlights on the Web
“The science of paleontology has always been inextricably tied to art.”- Davidson (2008)In 1995 Michael Brett-Surman, dinosaur collection manager of the Smithsonian, checked for damage after a pipe...
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Google meets Geoart!
Happy birdthday Nicolaus! On occasion of his 374th birthday, Google devoted today's doodle to the pioneer of stratigraphy: Nicolaus Steno. The design is essential but elegant, and clearly refers to the...
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Patterns, Geology and Art: the Invisible Landscapes of Enrico Serpagli
“Geology is a science of connection to our real environment, informed by the action of signs, a geosemiosis, that leads investigators on a fruitful course of hypothesis generation”- Victor Baker...
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Distilled Experiences
In his website, the influent artist Richard Long says: “my intention was to make a new art which was also a new way of walking: walking as art […] These walks are recorded or described in my work in...
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Slices of Earth, Slices of Time
“Geological mapping involves more than just producing a colourful map to show the distribution of formations within a given area. The trained geologist is able to produce an interpretation of not only...
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Ichnology on Google!
After Steno and his layers, Google celebrates another geoscientist through visual arts! In fact, today’s Doodle shows Mary Leakey excavating the Laetoli footprints, one of the landmarks of hominid...
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Geological Mosaics
Mutual Core by Björk (video director: Andrew Thomas Luang).In a previous post, we cited Björk and her geology-inspired songs. Crystals and tectonic plates populate Björk’s last album, Biophilia, which...
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In collaboration with Antonio Alberti and the University of Trieste, I organized “Geologia&Arte” (Geology&Art), exploring the aesthetic diversity of geological art. The exhibit is based on...
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Geology, ceramics and art: aesthetics in 3D
"Of all the arts, ceramics is the most fundamentally linked to the physical make up of the planet that we inhabit and best illustrates the link between science and art. It can be seen as an artistic...
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