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News & ArtsTuesday, January 8, 2013
Arts Fungal Furniture
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:05 PM
The dog, the fungal chair, the horror of life, the disgusting insistence of life. The art is by Philip Ross...
Ross, an artist, inventor and self-taught mycologist, says he "just allows these monstrosities to emerge". I'd call them organic beauties. Semantics aside, his chairs, footstools and tables withstand weight, falls and a fair bit of fire or water before they eventually degrade. Fungal furniture outlasts Ikea wares easily, Ross says.
The tip for this post came from Ben Demar.
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Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode (Tom Baker's Doctor) where the enemy aliens flew a living organic spacecraft that they could regrow for repairs, and interacted with via special feeler-controls.
Also reminds of Octavia Butler's (RIP) Xenogenesis trilogy. A very interesting set of sci-fi stories I would recommend to anyone, especially boys and girls of the teenage years.
Also reminds of Octavia Butler's (RIP) Xenogenesis trilogy. A very interesting set of sci-fi stories I would recommend to anyone, especially boys and girls of the teenage years.
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That's really cool.
@2 - Awesome books, I was assigned the first one for a class in tandem with readings on multispecies entanglements, and I liked it so much I finished the trilogy.
@2 - Awesome books, I was assigned the first one for a class in tandem with readings on multispecies entanglements, and I liked it so much I finished the trilogy.
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