Bottlecelli. Created by a team consisting of Smug, Yardworks and Lidl to encourage more recycling, it contains more than 30,000 bottlecaps. It's based on Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and can be found just outside SWG3 on Eastvale Place in Glasgow.
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, the final issue, number 24: some of the many things we can still learn from #bivalves, from underwater #adhesion, to microscale mirror #optics. Blog entry contains magic link for free access: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2023/12/cockles-and-mussels.html #science #invertebrates #MarineBiology #scallops #mussels image shows #BirthOfVenus in a scallop shell, hence hidden from sensitive eyes ...
#UffiziGalleries sue #JeanPaulGaultier over use of #Botticelli images | #Italy | The Guardian
This seems ridiculous to me. The #art is in the #PublicDomain or it should be and so nobody should be able to dictate its use or reuse, even for commercial purposes.
