The Business of Engineering Art

This video shows an amazing wind powered vehicle which is also a work of art.

Also posted in BusinessOver30.com the business, technology, finance and politics magazine blog web site.

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Babylon exhibition in Paris, Berlin and London

An exhibition on the history and art of Babylon is currently in Paris and will be moving to Berlin and later to London. Archaeologists show that Babylon was a city of innovation, contrary to the reformation Christians description as place dedicated to orgies and feasting. Babylon produced many developments in medicine, astronomy and mathematics and [...]

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LifeOver30.com Podcast 12th April 2008

This is the Link to the LifeOver30.com weekly podcast for 12th April 2008
Or play it directly here:

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Wellcome Image Awards 2008

The Wellcome Image Awards 2008 is a collection of incredible images showing the patterns and shapes of microscopic structures in vivid colour. Its a world, invisible to the naked eye, with beautiful textures, colours, and structures, however it’s strange to realise that these stunning pictures are breast and colon cancer cells, bacteria [...]

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British National Gallery Painting Was Owned By Hitler

“Venus and the Cupid” a painting by Lucas Cranach, a Reformation artist in the 16th century, was once owned by Hitler. It was bought in the 1960’s by the British National Gallery, however an art historian has traced it back to Hitler’s Munich flat…
Read the full story in the Guardian.

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The Lightening Field

The Lightening Field is a huge permanent installation in the desert in New Mexico.
Walter de Maria created the work by planting hundreds of 20-foot steel rods in the ground arranged in a grid, designed to attract amazing lightening strikes.See more at Channel Four Culture.

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Art from Digital Recycling

You’d think that Spam email messages are completely useless, but Alex Dragulescu puts them to good use by using them as a key to generate art, digitally. Jason Salavon uses American census data to produce beautiful flowing silk-like pictures. Read more about this recycling and reuse of digital everyday artifacts to produce art, [...]

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Lark: Philosophy and Dance

This documentary from Channel Four Docs is a strange, mysterious and intimate portrait of a woman who is a philosophy student and stripper. The juxtaposition of philosophy books, photos in a bed-sit flat and an exotic dance (in a bunny suit) to the sound of classical guitar, makes a surreal and compelling short film.
This film [...]

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Wired Top 10 Red Photographs

This is Bill Dunford’s yummy edibles caught in a split-second moment.
One of the ten best red photos from the recent Wired contest.
Check out the rest here.

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Battling to see the Chinese Army at the British Museum

Having unsuccessfully gained entry to the the First Emperor Chinese terracotta
army showing at the British Museum, I had to satisfy my curiosity by looking
at books and videos of the exhibition. A huge army of visitors descends on the
exhibition queue line every morning at 9am, where they release 500 tickets
on a daily basis. Booking online has [...]

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