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...Once the car pulled into aesthetically grungy Park City though, the world of “Big Love” polygamy and temperance was quickly replaced with a veritable terrarium of the entertainment industry. Lay people and stargazers alike slipped down icy Main Street looking through windows where cozy, rising and falling stars sipped spiked coffee in corporate sponsored parties and gifting suites...
...Biospherians Emerge They may have been the butt of countless Leno and Letterman jokes, but the eight men and women of Biosphere II did what they said they would do: they spent two years locked inside the world's largest terrarium and managed, despite some pretty flaky methodology, to make a significant contribution to ecological science...
McLurkin's machines were inspired by nature. As an undergraduate at M.I.T., he became interested in ants and kept a terrarium full of them on his desk. The decentralized nature of ant colonies gave him a model for his robots. "I worked on the notion of using virtual pheromones [the biochemical scents that some animals use to communicate]," he says. "As one robot gathers knowledge, it spreads it to its neighbors, and they spread it to their neighbors." Despite his success, McLurkin still gets a high-schoolish kick out of playing with his robots. Attendees at an iRobot holiday party...
Take a stroll through Gorilla Falls, which executive designer Joe Rohde, who dreamed up the park, carefully calls "a representation, not a reproduction, of an African habitat." Stop to gaze at--then try, just try to tear yourself away from--the terrarium of mole rats, burrowing or eating or just collapsed in a pile like a failed pyramid of cheerleaders. In a cloudy tank, two hippos float with hefty grace. Meerkats (completing The Lion King's "hakuna matata" trio) stand sentinel on a hill, gazing through glass at suspected predators: us. Finally, an ennead of gorillas--four bachelors...
...Insects" project, Norfleet brings together the natural and social typologies of her earlier work. Norfleet uses bugs from entomological supply shops, ranging from ants to dragonflies to stag beetles. She poses them in scenes with various props and elaborate (terrarium-like) backdrops to create photographs of fantastic encounters in fantastic colors...