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The Art of Science

DaVinci considered himself an inventor before an artist. Einstein was theoretical physicist and a chamber violinist. Science and art go together like peanut-butter and jelly. Even Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about how art and science inspire each other in this video. 

Acupuncture is my science, and dance is my art (though I dabble in photography too). Below you'll find some other artists who use science and scientists who create art. If you can relate, I would love to share your work! E-mail me your favorite piece and you may find it here!

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Photo credit: cardory_butterfly
This beautiful butterfly is a part of the Riodinidae family, more commonly known as "metalmark butterflies" because of the metallic spots on their wings.  Follow Cardory on Instagram for more stunning pictures of everyone's favorite bug.

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Photo credit: Robert Bolland
Approximately 18,000 new species of plants and animals are discovered annually. The one above, found in 2015, is a sea slug that is more than just good looking. This little guy happens to be the missing link between 2 other sea slug species and explains how their digestive systems evolved. You can learn more about the incredible discoveries of life around us through National Geographic's website.

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Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattkrumins/12341256663/
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Photo credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Royal Photographic Society International Images for Science contest 2016
Abstract art? Pictures from your screen saver? Nope. These are animals under the microscope. On the left are the eyes of a sea scallop (of which it has over 200 that rival NASA's telescopes), and on the right is the foot of a mosquito magnified 800x. If you'd like more info, check out IFLScience's Instagram page. You should just follow them. They share the most interesting stuff for nerds and regular humans alike.

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Look familiar? That is the one and only Mona Lisa recreated on a quantum canvas. Researchers at the University of Queensland have found a way to paint on a state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Basically, they project an image using a laser and place a stamp on this bit of matter, but as you can imagine, it's far more complex than that. Learn more about how this fun technology works and how they stumbled across it here.

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A World Within: Mapping the Body’s Social Network (Photo: Carly Ziegler, Shaina Carroll, Leslie Kean, Alex Shalek Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and Koch Institute at MIT)
The Koch Institute holds an annual exhibition highlighting the beauty behind life science and biomedical research and this is just one of many incredibly cool pieces of art. Above is a map of RNA expression of 45,782 single cells from 14 different organs developed by Shalek Lab. If you would like more information or to see other works from this exhibition, click here.

Kevin Kong is a mechanic who expresses his art through poetry. He finds inspiration anywhere from a picture to an excerpt from a book. Here is a little something he shared with me:
Moonlight Rider
In Danger! The enchanted mistress,
love of his life he doesn't think twice
As He grabs his horse by the reins
Dashing into the midnight planes
Her love, her trust, lay in his hands
No one could dare understand
Moonlight skin eyes wild like wind
What mind can erase
The beauty of her face
Enemys in the night
Test his might
Magical Sword in hand, he draws
energy from the land
Making a true stand,
Clashing steel these foes see the
deal his strength is unreal!
Somewhere calm somewhere close
He longs for taste of that red hair in his face
Tho he travels to lands
Unknown always a hero comes
Home
​A Woman's Heart
The heart of a women is the ocean
Deep, mysterious, powerful & ruthless
sometimes calm, at others stormy  
Forever changing state 
some men stare in awe of her amazing beauty
others walk safely along shore
few dare jump in
A MAN! stands on the shore at night under a sea of stars so bright!
Staring into the infinite mystery of water 
vast, open, boundless    
the ocean teaches gentleness, through gentleness her strength prevails
she invites him in, with a kiss from her loving lips below her hips
he cannot resist
he gathers strength from within to control and direct her power 
full of courage is he strong enough to swim in her eternal bliss
of comfort & glory or drown helpless in the abyss from insecurities & deepest fears
Ripples form on the waters surface, a starlit night shines so bright
the wandering soul knows no rest till first light
will the ocean become his eternal lover or most formidable enemy

Mike Gerhardt combines his creativity and energetic healing to create one of a kind jewelry. Head to Buddha Belly Bang to request a custom piece and learn more about the healing properties of CBD, essential oils, incense, and music.
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Craig P. Burrows uses ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence (UVIVF) photography to take these amazing photos of flowers that seem to glow! If you ask me, I think he went to Pandora. Check out his website for more incredible work.
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Artist Heather Hansen combines movement with art in her kinetic performance pieces. You can find videos of her artwork on her website.
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For the first time ever, you can watch memories being made! 
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Alexey Kljatov​ made his own camera and took some crystal clear photos of the unique crystalline structures of snowflakes. Check out the article here.
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By augmenting images from the Hubble Space Telescope with additional field-of-view from the Subaru Infrared Telescope and applying a little imagination, artists have created a 3-D video of what it would be like to fly into Sharpless 2-106, AKA the "celestial snow angel." You can read more about this bipolar star-forming region and find other videos here.

Your favorite beverages are now available as decoration! BevShots captured pictures of alcoholic drinks by crystallizing them on a slide and shooting under a polarized light microscope. You can purchase photos and other merchandise on their website.
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Champagne
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White Zinfandel

Bioluminescent Bacteria. Believed to be a defense mechanism, these bacteria will glow when jostled. You can read more about it here, but just imagine getting to swim in those waters?! The photo on the left is courtesy of Phil Heart, and the right is thanks to Will Ho.

This artist is a French man named Hubert Duprat and those lovely critters are the larvae of the caddis fly. They protect their bodies by spinning silk and incorporating materials in their environment. Duprat introduced gold and precious stones and this is what they made. You can read more here or check out this Youtube video.
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Some of my own art work. These are flowers from the Botanical Gardens in Papaikou, Hawai'i. Unfortunately I could only identify a few so if you can identify the rest, please do! I took these pictures using my Nikon D-3100 while visiting in the Summer of 2014.
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