DNArt A

Want to be the ultimate exhibitionist? Frame your DNA. These guys are awesome. You send them a cheek swab, they prep it and, I guess, either digest it or PCR some variable tandem repeats, run it on a gel (or, as they call it, a "gel"), and take a photo with a geldoc (or, as they call it, a "special camera"). Here's the artistic part. They open Photoshop, click Image--->Adjustments--->Hue/Saturation. Then they move the little scale bar. Next, they give a creative name for the colour, such as "firesky." The final step is convincing people to pay 450 dollars for it. I must say, they do a good job with the whole "yah dude, science is like, art in its, like, most, uh, basic form . . . dude" schtick. Maybe I can hire them as marketing consultants for my science restaurant.

That, or I could make polyacrylamide sculptures such as these. Note the avant-garde (read: corny) titles. Photos courtesy Karen Yam.

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