9 photos of smallest creation in history || art meets nano science

Human on human hair

Science is beautiful.

This is what happens when artists and scientists work together. Here are some photos produced by artist Jonty Hurwitz and nano-scientist  Stefan Hengsbach. These beautiful photos are the smallest sculptures of human form in our history.

As a reference, human hair is 10-100 microns in diameter. And, 1 millimeter is 1000 microns. Naked female sculpture in above SEM image is about 80 x 100 micron in size. Just to get a feeling, our finger nail grows about the same size in  5 hours.

Human on eye of a needle

These microscale sculptures seen as SEM images were created using a 3-D printing technique called multi photon lithography where a laser is focused on a photosensitive liquid polymer. The laser light is very intense at the focal point that the polymer can absorb two photons at the same time and makes the polymer solidify.  

Full version of human on human hair

To create this art, they photographed a female model from hundreds of angles to generate the digital “blueprint” to use in lithography.

Behind the scene creating the blue print with model

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Barun's Paintings-Part 3 Nepali life

Part 1

Part 2

Taking shower in natural water fall. I am not sure this happens in Nepal in pubpic place? It might be possible in really remote areas.

Popular PhD Comics, cartoons

What are the similarities between FIFA world cup and a PhD program? Lets see the cartoon below.

It is quite interesting. FIFA world cup is still going on and some unexpected results are also coming. In spite of the noise from vuvuzela many people around the globe are really busy watching it. Lets hope the trophy will go to the team who really deserves it. I am not crazy about the world cup. This time I have watched 2 matches so far. Most of my friends are watching without missing even a single match. Yesterday Lekhnath was asking me about watching the games and I replied I am not. Then his response was: When will you watch? That was good question. Because this game comes once in every four years. This was because of the life of a graduate student. I am not able to get time to watch all games.

Random Collection: More Paintings by Barun

Previous posting about Barun's paintings can be viewed by clicking here. This time few painting/drawings by Barun from different categories/techniqes are pulled out randomly from his collection. I may have different perception and understanding about these art works than the artist. You may have different opinion. You are welcome to express your opinion on comment section below.

Person with long beard is hanged on the electricity tower as Jesus was hanged centuries ago. One is ready to give him electric shock and next has pistol on his hand to shoot him. How do you best describe this scene?

Some Oil Paintings

In this post I am presenting you some oil paintings by Barun Pokharel. I know him since he came to Kathmandu after SLC. He has great passion on painting. Now he is doing BFA at Korea National University. He can be contacted at artdebarun@hotmail.com. He would appreciate your comments and suggestions.

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