Motherboard-Psychedelic Photomicrography & the Silicon Zo...

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Michael Davidson heads up the Industrial Photomicrography department at the FSU site
of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where he takes pictures of teeny tiny
living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope. Oh, what? That sounds
boring? Let's see your brain say that when it's being bombarded with massive swirling
fluorescent fractals churning in and out of each other. Simply as a result of the slide
stains needed for the different parts of the cell to show up through the lens, even the
most rudimentary of cellular processes turn into psychedelic visuals. Davidson has taken
his eye for microscopic aesthetics to the corporate world, photographing the
crystalization of a wide variety of beers and pharmaceuticals for use in advertisements,
screensavers, and, like all things psychedelic, a line of high-quality neck-ties.
Davidson is also the discoverer and curator of the "Silicon Zoo," a collection of
infinitesimal drawings etched directly into the circuitry of mass-manufactured
microprocessors by their designers, and running the gamut in shape and style from a
2mm-long Crayola crayon to a Waldo one-third the width of a human hair. It's like tiny
graffiti for nerds (regular nerds, not graffiti nerds).

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Science & Technology

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• vice
• motherboard
• technology
• microbiology
• computer
• chip
• graffiti
• art
• photography

[d0md0mt0mt0m]

lol waldo, we call it Wally here, I always thought waldo was a joke name HAHA

[roundread]

I used to do chip graffiti! That's awesome :)

[oxidindigo]

vbs always does the most interesting stories and reports, its about time they got more exposure with their mtv show. they definitely deserve it

[IshtarMnezeth]

Haha, that is pretty nerdy. But awesome all the same.

[gorillabiscuits]

Tight, NERDS RULE

[JibblesTaint]

LOL Chip Graffiti, that's just awesome...