Evolution
Trilobite Eggs
Glendon Mellow wonders what we know about trilobite eggs and proposes something ridiculous
Stories by Glendon Mellow
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The Future of Symbiartic
After 5.5 years, Symbiartic on Scientific American is swappin’ shells like a hermit crab. Kalliopi Monoyios, Katie McKissick, and Glendon Mellow say good-bye, and share a bit of what the future holds...
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Painting Has Become Performance Art [video]
And that's okay
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Museums Will Rescue Us [Video]
Museums, art galleries and libraries are poised once again to be civilization's rescuers. And they are up to the task like never before
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Prehistoric Fish
Glendon Mellow continues painting from old SciArt drawings to find inspiration to go forward.
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Art versus Trump Roundup
How are artists and artist groups responding to Trump? We've got your links right here.
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How to See More Art Online in 2017
Set yourself a New Year's resolution to balance out reading all those hot takes and think pieces with more art. Here are some handy tips
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Stop Saying Art Will Flourish under Trump
Art created in opposition may be smart, but we shouldn't see it as a silver lining
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Don't Close the Studio Door
This is our job now, artists: ask riddles, question authority, ridicule power and underscore weirdness using a big fat licorice-scented marker
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Pinch of Pigment: Ontario Ochre
Naples yellow. Antwerp blue. Some paint pigments are named for a sense of place. Perhaps we need an Ontario ochre?
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SciArt Scumble--November 2016
There's so much #SciArt out there to see, sometimes you just have to share a link list! This edition featuring sciart by Moiety Mouse
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The Beauty of Skulls
The skull paintings of Christine Mercer-Vernon transcend our modern seasonal macabre and reveal the beauty of death as part of life.
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Do I Enjoy Assassin's Creed of My Own Free Will?
The Assassin's Creed video game series embed players in a secret history. Glendon Mellow relates his own experience meeting Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci and wonders if he can't help loving these games...
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Switching Gears
What to expect from future posts by Glendon Mellow on Symbiartic, the SciArt blog on Scientific American. A bit of blogging housekeeping
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Here, Now, Mortality Screaming in Carmine Red
Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip gave a primal cry that spiked the fear response in artists everywhere during the concert that will go down in Canadian history
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Will Coming Twitter Changes Help Illustrators?
Twitter has plans to allow for longer tweets and replying to larger groups in conversations. Will these changes help illustrators?
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Classic Flying Trilobite on Medium
Now you can find Glendon's classic Symbiartic posts on Medium and The Flying Trilobite blog. So what's up with that?
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A Strange Lesson about Hashtags and Twitter Spam
Last month, the first day of the #SciArt Tweet Storm was bombarded with porn bots during the first few hours. Solving this problem led to an interesting insight into how bots and Twitter function (some vulgar language ahead)...
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The 2016 SciArt Tweet Storm--by the Numbers
The #SciArt Tweet Storm swept over Twitter last month with an astonishing number of tweets displaying the intersection of art and science. In this post Glendon crunches the numbers for the community...
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Talking the Blackest Black with the Mad Art Cast
Mad Art Cast, the podcast of the science-art site Mad Art Lab recently asked Symbiartic's Glendon Mellow to join them and discuss the #SciArt hashtag, the new material Vanta Black, and more...
