Insect Lab is a project by Mike Libby that combines real (dead) insects with clockwork gears.
This hybridization of insects and technology from both fields, is where Insect Lab borrows from. Insect Lab celebrates these correspondences and contradictions. The work does not intend to function, but playfully and slyly insists that it possibly could.
I think I might want a steampunk spider.
Wim Delvoye is a Belgian conceptual artist who by all accounts has done some pretty weird stuff. I’d not actually heard of him until I came across this post on Fabrik Project about his tattooed pig farm.
Delvoye started creating tattoos on pig skins from slaughterhouses and then began working on live pigs bred in a farm studio complex in China, using images such as the Louis Vuitton design and Walt Disney characters.
Wim Delvoye’s website has more of his projects (and is also one of those annoying Flash isometric town sites).
Batman Villains and Cooperation: A Utility Analysis
First, we have to make certain assumptions. Specifically, we need to assign probabilities of capturing Batman and figure out how much these probabilities increase due to the addition of a new cooperating villain. We also need to assign utility values for the Joker for each scenario. Let’s start with utilities.
For not killing Batman, we can obviously assign the Joker a utility of 0.
For capturing Batman on his own, let’s assign the Joker a utility of 10.
For capturing Batman with the help of x other villains, the utility would be 10/xThe last one is sort of tricky. This means that if the Joker cooperates with one other villain (say Two-Face) and together they manage to kill Batman, then the utility for each would be 5. In effect, this means that the villains “split” the utility of 10.
University Economics would’ve been waaaay more fun if we’d been using Batman.
