Migaloo

Migaloo has been spotted in Australia!
For all things Migaloo go here.
Maybe I'm psychic! I just did a painting of an albino humpback {see below post}.
I'm a little obsessed now.....



FUN FACT : Migaloo means 'White Fella' in Aboriginal Australian. Wow your friends with that little piece of knowledge.

Swoon

Just finished some more new work for Swoon, opening this Saturday at Black Maria Gallery.

Tug

Let Them Talk

Fall From Grace

Feels good to be getting so much work done lately. I'm really trying to plow through some new things right now...including a book project that I think I've been teasing for oh, about three years now. One of these days I'm gonna.........

Failed Attempts

New painting 'Failed Attempts'.

This will be part of 'Red Ball' benefiting Sushi: A Center for Urban Arts in San Diego.

Studio De Lobo

This is where I come to work and to escape the madness that is The Lobo-Simpson casa.





It's an old office building that is more Dick Tracy than art studio, but I'm not really a paint flinger, so it works perfectly for me.





This is my view of the haunted Union Savings building next door, which brings such comfort when I'm waiting for the elevator at 3am. I really. wish. I did not know about that.



The sound of silence is deafening at times. I never really realized how instrumental the white noise of my family is to my process.

Art of Science

Princeton University hosts 'The Art of Science' competition in which scientists submit "imagery produced in the course of research." The results are pretty fantastic.




Purkinje Neurons
Dmitry Sarkisov GS
Department of Physics
This is a composite image of five Purkinje neurons from the rat cerebellum, in the back of the brain.






Cryptic Coalition
Trond H. Larsen GS
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
In addition to cryptic coloration allowing them to blend in with the tree trunk, these Peruvian caterpillars fool their enemies by foraging together in a large group.






I get the blues: on the neurobiology of depression
Barry L. Jacobs (faculty) and Casimir A. Fornal (research scholar)
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
In 2000, we proposed a theory: that changes in brain cell production in the dentate gyrus were important elements in the descent into, and recovery from, human clinical depression. This image shows hundreds of glial cells stained for a marker protein known as GFAP. The staining uses immunocytochemistry (immunoperoxidase with diaminobenzidine).






Semiconducting Feathers
R. R. Lunt '09
Department of Chemical Engineering
Organic electronics is an emerging field that holds promise for high-quality displays, low-power white lighting, and low-cost photovoltaic applications. This image of an organic semiconducting film was taken using an optical microscope with cross-polarizers and a Nomarski filter.






Metadherin Expression at 10.5 Days Post Conception
Halley Mellor (graduate student)
Department of Molecular Biology
The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functional organism requires an intricate pattern of signaling within and between the cells of the growing animal. Cancer can result later in life when these same tools are co-opted by a cell in order to escape the normal restrictions on growth.






Individually Marked Ants
Stephen Pratt
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
Ant colonies show remarkably coordinated behavior, despite lacking any direction from a well-informed central controller.






Snow
Shufeng Bai GS
Department of Electrical Engineering
An optical micrograph of self-assembled pattern in polymer thin film. When a polymer film is heated above its glass transition temperature and a mask is placed at a small distance above the film, the interplay between electrostatic force and surface tension can create interesting patterns.

Dear Jonathan Safran Foer,

Please save some brilliance for the rest of humanity. It's a little selfish what you're doing.

Best,
Miss Jen Lobo

Drool.

Christopher Marley's work is sort of completely amazing.