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From Tiepolo's Immaculate Conception, a generative rush of uncanny planes emerges not as narrative, but a separate object of contemplation.

A short film about the eye behind The Sartorialist shows how the web, like the printing press and photography before it, unleashes disruptive beauty. Video after the jump.

Starting tomorrow, AT&T sets up shop with the heirloom-variety iPhone at a nice price.

This making-of reel from effects producer Digital Domain shows how richly we've blurred the difference between reality and image-making.

Cupertino opens up the north forty for farming as app-culture's Green Revolution continues apace.

In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, E. O. Wilson's warning: evolution has its times and its textures, and we risk making out its patterns too late.

A glass techno-cube spinning through space, rocked by a band with the unimpeachably awesome name.

The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.

With chocolate and other delicacies in the genomic crosshairs, it's tempting to imagine science-fictional scenarios for the future of flavor.

This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.