“Save Our Earth, Let’s Go Green” won first place for photography in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation. The annual contest highlights visuals that reveal the hidden meaning and intricate details of our world.
View slideshow on MSNBC.
Got an awesome shot of Jupiter? Share it in the Astrophotography Contest going on right now sponsored by Celestron and Discover Magazine.
“In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy, DISCOVER and Celestron are hosting an exciting astronomy photo contest.”
Categories include the sun, moon, stars, spaceships, and even microphotography (although I’m not sure what astronomy-related photos would be in this category. Maybe pictures of really tiny space rocks?)
Judging will be led by Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, one of Time.com’s Best Blogs of 2009.
Prizes include telescope and photography gear.
There are some really awesome photos in there, so check’em out.
Interestingly, this photo was reportedly taken on somebody’s cell phone. Wow! That’s a whole different post about how technology has changed how we see and capture the world.
I don’t know how many of y’all are old enough to remember the days when “cut & paste” literally meant cutting and taping or glueing.
In a celebration of cutting and pasting in the new age, the 4th Cut&Paste competition was recently held. The final event in the U.S. was just held in Chicago earlier this month. This video hosted on Wired has the details.
The idea is essentially a way to honor design while throwing some competition into it too just to see what a little pressure will do for people. It seems to create pretty fun results.
More events are scheduled for Berlin this weekend, and in Barcelona on the 25th. They have live webcasts you can tune into.
A little old, but still interesting:
Cambridge University (UK) sponsored an art competition based off nanotechnology images. Level 9 students got a tour of the nanotech lab and then were asked to create art images based off the lab images they saw. Prizes for first and second place were awarded on July 4th.
When I first read this I had hoped it was an actual nano-photography or nano-art competition, where scientists tried to make nano-stuff, like the nano noodle bowl Japanese scientists made earlier this year. That said, I still think this is a fun way of engaging students in science and technology.
The Art of Science 
