What an ad!

HT to Churmuri; originally from Majavaani.

How did he know?

‘The world is a smaller place without the big man’

So says Sting.

My introduction to opera was a live telecast of ‘Tosca’ in which he starred. He still is the first name to come to mind when you say ‘opera’.

Here he is performing a piece that I love.

Goodbye cousin

Earlier it was the Baiji, but this time around, it’s much closer home.

They will not disappear overnight, but this bit of news is very disheartening. And just within a week of me finishing Farley Mowat’s wonderful biography of Dian Fossey - puts me in a more pessimistic mood than usual.

Why bother with conservation & protecting the environment? Why don’t we all just take some hallucinogens and blow the fucking world up. Atleast we will go out happy.

[picture copyright - Gorilla Adventures]

The Inner Life of the Cell

For all biologists who couldn’t think in 3-D, and were bored of illustrations in text books. This will really show you how dynamic life is, even at the level of a single cell.

David Bolinsky, former lead medical illustrator at Yale, lead animator John Leibler, and Mike Astrachan are some of the creators at XIVIO who made the movie. They created the animation for Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Most of the processes animated were the result of Alain Viel’s Ph.D. work describing the processes to the team.

14 months to create for 8.5 minutes of animation! Well worth it, don’t you think?

For more on how it was made, read Studio Daily’s report here. And an interview with Wired here.