‘Bulo Remembers 2009-’Surfin’ the Microverse’ Edition

December 2nd, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
By El Somnambulo

Too bad we didn’t have the microverse back in 1969…we needed psychedelics to visualize it.

Too bad we (aka ‘I’) don’t have psychedelics in 2009…this phantasmagorical (microscopic) slide show would really blow my mind.

As it is, the winners of Nikon’s 2009 ‘Small World’ Microphotography Contest are absolutely breathtaking. And proof that ‘Life is Art’.

These would have been on walls of virtually every ‘cool kid’s’ dorm room back in ‘69. #12, “Flow Pattern in Draining Soap Film”, would have consigned my Wassily Kandinsky poster to the trash heap, and # 9 (‘number 9, number 9′) might have even been too intense for psylocibin, but YMMV.

Cue “White Rabbit”.

There Are 5 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Rebecca on 2 December 2009 at 10:04 am:

    Beautiful stuff Bulo. Thanks for sharing.

  2. Comment by anon on 2 December 2009 at 10:08 am:

    anon notices a flashback to the third person :-)

  3. Comment by El Somnambulo on 2 December 2009 at 10:24 am:

    Anon, ‘bulo thinks you’re wrong…ruh-roh.

  4. Comment by liberalgeek on 2 December 2009 at 10:41 am:

    We should note that #17 is from Rebekah Helton at the U of D.

  5. Comment by El Somnambulo on 2 December 2009 at 11:20 am:

    Wow, Rebekah’s entry strikes me as a detail from a Picasso:

    http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/gallery/year/2009/17

    Just gorgeous. Congratulations to her from all of us here at DL.