Friday, December 15, 2006

us- on the inside, and in slow motion




a peek of what's going on right now in any one of our cells.
despite this awesome animation and the huge simplification (things are a bit more crowded in there), all of these fascinating movements (the 'walking', 'hugging', the brilliant 'team strategies') actually take place in real life in exactly the same way, and they all work together in such harmony and precision..how cool is that?

thanks megz

19 Comments:

Blogger Fouad said...

breathtaking..

12:54 AM  
Blogger _z. said...

everything in life works the same... same design, same organization, same... life. It is all but a matter of scale.

awsome clip layla. very trippy. or is it just me?

1:13 AM  
Blogger Dareen said...

Very cool. Our inside in the clip looks much more pleasant than in real life :)

1:20 AM  
Blogger rouba said...

brilliant!
you've inspired me
tomorrow i'm going to look at that flask very tenderly :)

2:55 AM  
Blogger George said...

escaping reality and surrounding events... yet it is flowing inside us... no matter how far we go, we can not go far enough as it is part of us...



Ahdath 74'
how remindful.

11:03 AM  
Blogger Mia said...

wow words fail me.

11:20 AM  
Blogger Mar said...

WOW! I feel like praying.

3:41 PM  
Blogger Delirious said...

Wow... truly amazing.

6:49 PM  
Blogger BeeJ said...

Laila, can you please tell me what the 'walking testicles' creature actually is at 1:17?

I came back from Beirut yesterday btw.. awesome... all this turmoil is overrated media BS.

8:35 AM  
Blogger Laila K said...

so the walking GUY (respect!)is a Kinesin (they call them motor proteins because they need energy to function). its 'shoes' attach themselves to the road (microtubules, part of the cell's 'skeleton') and its 'arms' to the 'cargo' (like this blue 'container' which has tons of other proteins that need to move from one place to another)- and off it goes!

so have you been downtown? i'll be there wednesday

9:20 AM  
Blogger Paul said...

great, it is always nice to go back to the basics!

5:51 PM  
Blogger Ibn Bint Jbeil said...

thank you laila, you helped me grow today.

9:08 PM  
Blogger jooj said...

this was amazing

9:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ktir cool 3an jad... IF UR A NERD!!! oh wait...

11:34 AM  
Blogger Laila K said...

IBJ, you're welcome:)
glad you enjoyed it guys
3isso, hahaha :)

11:48 AM  
Blogger BeeJ said...

blogging sensation, and aspiring artist of disturbed status....

3:52 PM  
Blogger Laila K said...

you're bad :)

4:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This video reminds me of this cheesy pickup line:
If I were an enzyme I'd be DNA-helicase so I can unzip your genes (jeans). hee hee

6:41 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

That was beautiful. I love art . . . science . . . life.

1:32 PM  

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