{"id":15504,"date":"2007-11-10T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/glowing-brains-adobe-x-rays-more.html"},"modified":"2007-11-10T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T12:43:04","slug":"glowing_brains_adobe_x_rays_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/glowing_brains_adobe_x_rays_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Brains, Adobe X-rays, &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Droppin&#8217; some Saturday science: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>We come in colors<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc.org\/chemistryworld\/News\/2007\/October\/31100703.asp\">Brainbow<\/a>&#8221; uses fluroescent proteins to let scientists see the individual neurons within mouse brains. [<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2007\/11\/02\/brains-wiring-seen-in-technicolor\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>X to the Ray:\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Veasey makes nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickveasey.com\/x-ray.html\">X-Ray photography<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopsupport.com\/photoshop-blog\/07\/11\/waterfront-26.html\">Via<\/a>].&#160; I thought his feather scans looked familiar, and sure enough, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/22837.html?cprose=8-01\">the guy behind the Creative Suite 2 artwork<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>SFMOMA used X-rays to uncover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/2300-1026_3-6172546-3.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">a hidden Picasso<\/a> buried beneath another artist&#8217;s work. <\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere I stumbled upon a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2spare.com\/item_60209.aspx\">15 weird X-rays<\/a>.&#160; The nailgun victims remind me of work done by a props master I met on the set of <em>CSI<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/10\/behind_the_scen.html\">a couple years back<\/a>.&#160; He&#8217;d carved out a niche creating realistic depictions of trauma, going from raw materials to on-set print in just a few minutes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Photoshop-for-technical-imaging expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jurispro.com\/user\/reisimagingforensicscom\">George Reis<\/a> has released <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0470114541\/futura-20\/\">Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals<\/a>: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators<\/em>.&#160; PhotoshopSupport.com has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopsupport.com\/photoshop-blog\/07\/11\/photoshop-CS3-forensics-professionals.html\">details<\/a>, plus a link to a  <a href=\"http:\/\/media.wiley.com\/product_data\/excerpt\/41\/04701145\/0470114541-2.pdf\">sample chapter<\/a> (PDF). <\/li>\n<li>Evidently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/09\/070927-magnetic-birds.html\">birds see magnetic fields<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/03\/birds-see-magnetic-f.html\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (File next to squirrels with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn12477-squirrels-wield-a-hot-secret-weapon.html\">infrared-emitting tails<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>And you thought your inkjet was precise: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/IBM+prints+with+molecules\/2100-1008-6207114.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e703\">IBM prints with molecules<\/a>. (Please, guys: draw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a4_132.html\">angels on the head of a pin<\/a>&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/\">Morbid Anatomy<\/a> blogs about the intersections of &#8220;art and medicine, death and culture.&#8221;&#160;They cover, among other things, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/christies-anatomy-as-art-auction-part_10.html\">&#8220;Anatomy as Art&#8221; auction<\/a> at Christie&#8217;s. <\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere in news of medical curiosities, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=67841&amp;in_page_id=2\"> hard-shelled pushmi-pullyu<\/a>.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/28\/extraspecial-twohead.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefaction.net\/\">ScienceFaction<\/a> offers scient-oriented stock imagery, while Fahad Sulehria &#8220;studies the science of art and the art of science&#8221; with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novacelestia.com\/index.html\">scientific illustrations<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Droppin&#8217; some Saturday science: We come in colors: &#8220;Brainbow&#8221; uses fluroescent proteins to let scientists see the individual neurons within mouse brains. [Via] X to the Ray: Nick Veasey makes nifty X-Ray photography [Via].&#160; I thought his feather scans looked familiar, and sure enough, he&#8217;s the guy behind the Creative Suite 2 artwork. 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