{"id":8715,"date":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cross-cultural-e-coli-aesthetics-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","slug":"cross-cultural-e-coli-aesthetics-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cross-cultural-e-coli-aesthetics-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Cultural E. coli Aesthetics | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple foreign editions of <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrocosm-coli-New-Science-Life%2Fdp%2F037542430X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1190687076%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Microcosm<\/a><\/em> have arrived. They got me thinking about book design across the globe. The Chinese edition takes my world-within-a-microbe metaphor to cosmic extremes.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2338 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62fb0_Chinese-Microcosm-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Microcosm cover\" width=\"440\" height=\"627\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>All of my Japanese editions have covers that are both cute and relevant. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/???-????????????????-???-????\/dp\/4140814039\/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1266031392&amp;sr=8-10\">Their edition<\/a> of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrocosm-coli-New-Science-Life%2Fdp%2F037542430X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1190687076%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><em>Microcosm<\/em><\/a> is no exception. Who thought <em>E. coli<\/em> could have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7e\/Cranes_Watanabe_Shuseki_Hanging_scroll_color_on_silk.jpg\">the delicacy of a crane<\/a>?<\/p><p>The Front:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2342\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62fb0_Microcosm-japanese-front-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Microcosm japanese front cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>And one more for the back:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2343\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62fb0_Microcosm-japanese-back-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Microcosm japanese back cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"734\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62fb0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d149a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d149a_TfU3NBvnLLM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d149a__ysccyjpzLY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple foreign editions of Microcosm have arrived. They got me thinking about book design across the globe. The Chinese edition takes my world-within-a-microbe metaphor to cosmic extremes.All of my Japanese editions have covers that are both cute and relevant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cross-cultural-e-coli-aesthetics-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}