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I found a website that explains the creation of the Buddhabrot Hologram set, a different perspective on the Mandelbrot set. Along with an intriguing set of pictures of this set, there are a number of videos. These were all created by Melinda Green of Superliminal Software.

Here are some of the videos from the website:

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I generally find myself browsing YouTube only out of extreme boredom. It has replaced Solitaire, Snood, and a few other forms of mindless entertainment that have grasped my attention over the years. Since I got rid of the television, I occasionally find myself browsing and can’t remember why I started or how long it’s been. Of all my browsing, this video is probably the greatest thing I’ve ever seen:

Update: Apparently YouTube took down the last video. Some kind soul has uploaded a new version.

Here we find another set of super-realist sculptures, this time by Marc Sijan, a Wisconsin native who began using plaster, polyester resin, varnish, and oil paints to craft extremely like-like figures in graduate school in the early 1970’s. Ruth Sternberg (formerly of the Canton Institute of Art) once said of Mr. Sijan’s work, “Sijan’s figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. In fact, they are so lifelike, they seem always on the verge of movement, a mere instant away from action. The pores in the skin, the tiny hairs, and veins; even the bald spots, the blemishes, the individual shapes of the faces that make human beings so similar, yet so unique: These are the essence of what makes Marc Sijan’s work so arresting.” While his work has often been compared to the work of our previous subject, Duane Hanson, it has a very different quality to it. He seems to focus less on making social commentary and far more on capturing the posed moments of people’s lives in all of their three-dimensional glory.

Note: Much to the chagrin of many of the commenters on my previous super-realist post, I’ve included pictures of some of his works of obese people. Also, as so many of you said you’d have used your talent for, a marginally “hot chick.”

Here are six pictures of his pieces:

Benoit Hardy-Vallée at Natural Rationality posted an article about how the Dictator Game may have come into play with Radiohead’s recent “It’s Up To You” pricing method.

From the article:

The situation is thus similar (but not exactly) to a Dictator Game: player A spits a “pie” between her and player B, but B accepts whatever A offers. Thus, contrarily to the Ultimatum Game, B’s decisions or reactions has no influence on A’s choice behavior. Radiohead fans were thus in a position similar to A’s position. If we make the assumption that they framed the situation as a purchasing one in which they choose how much of the CD price they want to split between them and the band, and given that a CD is typically priced £1o (roughly 20 U.S.$), then the fans are choosin how to split 10£ between them and Radiohead. Usually, experimental studies of the Dictator Games shows that 70% of the subjects (A) transfer some amount to Players B, and transfer an average of 24% of the initial endowment (Forsythe et al. (1994). Hence if these results can generalized to the “buy Radiohead album” game, it would suggest that about 70% of those who download the album would pay an average of £2.4 , while 30% would pay nothing.

Duane Hanson was born in 1925 in small city in Minnesota. He received his BA at Macalester College in Minnesota and his MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. As he was in school and later professing abroad, he began sculpting in an eerily real style. While teaching in Munich, Germany, he came into contact with the philosophy of the Post Expressionists. He would lated be considered to be a Verist, a movement of Post Expressionism who, as described by the art historian Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, “… tear the objective form of the world of contemporary facts and represent current experience in its tempo and fevered temperature.” As such, his focus turned to creating accurate, surreal recreations of regular people. Duane Hanson died on January 6th, 1996.

Pictures of a few of these amazing sculptures after the jump.

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