*This video looks so wacked-out and novel that even sci-fi site io9 really digs it, but, well, isn't this just a common-or-garden microscope at work? People have been going "wow" about microbes in the water since the year 1676.
*This video's got a digital camera, a soundtrack and some tags. Plus it was done by Clemens Wirth, a guy with a European multimedia art background. Clemens has a Vimeo account. Does that make any difference? Has that renewed microscopy so much that a mere microscope gets the glamorous new-aesthetic role of, say, drone aircraft?
*Here's some catwalk stuff by the exceedingly out-there 27-year-old Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, beloved of Bjork and Lady Gaga. Iris hangs out with United Nude maven Rem D. Koolhaas, and Iris is very into advanced fabbing, new materials and parametrics.
*So inventive Iris decides to create a new fashion collection "inspired by" microbes. It's, like, uh, Dutch microbial chic. Check out those shoes. Are we somehow to deny that these are "New Aesthetic" shoes? How? They've got, uh, fabbed amoebic flagella on 'em. They're not the sort of shoes that a wondering mankind used to see.
http://eragatory.blogspot.it/2012/02/iris-van-herpen-and-isaie-bloch-micro.html
*I have no answers to offer here, but I'm thinking about it. And really *enjoying* thinking about it. Most every day I get up and go hunt for it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/sets/72157629758514181/
