I blogged about Lisa Black's steampunk heart:
Fixed Heart
offal with mixed metal components
Lisa Black, 2008
I blogged about New Zealand artist Lisa Black before, but I can't get over this great piece of hers. What does it signify? Does it represent the gradual replacement of the natural world around us with technology, to the point where our own bodies become artificial? Is it critiquing the reductionist tendencies of neurobiologists who believe our deepest emotions are complex but purely chemical reactions? Is it a steampunk Valentine? I don't know, and I don't really care - it's just cool.
Check out more from Black here.
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Lisa Gherardini was born in May 1479, and is thought to have been the second wif
Woot! Mrs.
Steve Higgins of Of Two Minds and I got together with some Midwestern friends at Jupiter's Pizza in Champaign last Saturday to celebrate the millionth comment on Scienceblogs.
It pays to remember that people go up in those contraptions all made by the lowest bidder. Here's a statement from Lisa Nowack's family:
Dare I mention that in addition to being cool, it is fucking SPOOKY?
Very steampunk indeed.