Phil Ross http://philross.org The Biotechnique of Phil Ross Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:32:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Road to Yamanaka http://philross.org/2012/11/17/road-to-yamanaka/ http://philross.org/2012/11/17/road-to-yamanaka/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:40:58 +0000 Phil Ross http://philross.org/?p=972 Some of the process of growing the Yamanaka series of furniture at The Workshop Residence, which were made from agricultural waste, fungus and salvage wood.

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]]> http://philross.org/2012/11/17/road-to-yamanaka/feed/ 0 The Workshop Residence http://philross.org/2012/10/01/the-workshop-residence/ http://philross.org/2012/10/01/the-workshop-residence/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:23:12 +0000 Phil Ross http://philross.org/?p=963 Continue reading →]]> Through October 31st I will be at The Workshop Residence in San Francisco, where I will be growing a limited edition set of furniture from fungal tissue. Below are some of the prototypes that came out of the design process. These use local agricultural waste as the food for the fungus, with the legs fashioned from salvage  wood.

On Saturday, October 27th there will be a public reception from 12-6 at the gallery, where I will have many of these on display.

Paul Discoe, Peter Dolittle and Michael Sgambellone are master wood joiners and craftsmen who generously helped realize these objects’ alien grace. The Yamanaka chairs owe their name to Shigeru Yamanaka, a Japanese scientist who described how fungal cells can be used as a natural binding agent for different materials.

]]> http://philross.org/2012/10/01/the-workshop-residence/feed/ 0 The Future Is Fungal: Interview http://philross.org/2012/09/29/glasstire-interview-intimate-science/ http://philross.org/2012/09/29/glasstire-interview-intimate-science/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:39:08 +0000 Phil Ross http://philross.org/?p=954 Continue reading →]]> //set up custom caption function formatTitle(title, currentArray, currentIndex, currentOpts) { if(title && title.length) { $('#fancybox-content').css('margin-top','-60px'); var bHTML = '
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Andrea Grover has published an interview with me called The Future Is Fungal, which goes a bit deeper into how I learned to grow mushrooms. Andrea is the curator of the traveling Intimate Science exhibition that started at The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Some of the exciting new experiments with growing functional building materials out of fungus.

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]]> http://philross.org/2012/07/02/new-fungal-order/feed/ 0 Recent Press http://philross.org/2011/05/31/press/ http://philross.org/2011/05/31/press/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 14:42:35 +0000 Phil Ross http://philross.org/?p=781 Continue reading →]]> //set up custom caption function formatTitle(title, currentArray, currentIndex, currentOpts) { if(title && title.length) { $('#fancybox-content').css('margin-top','-60px'); var bHTML = '
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An article about my research on fungal materials in Time Magazine.

Eric Lemay has written an article about Junior Return for the May issue of Gastronomica, which has a mirror here in the Boston Globe.

From the front page of the fall dining section of the NY Times about an edible insect dinner I put together for The Brooklyn Kitchen.

Some videos about CRITTER Salon events that took place down in LA at Machine Project this past year.

Clone Home- A drop in plant cloning and cultural center.

Eat Bug Eat- Just what it sounds like.

Enormous Microscopic Evening- a giant microscope jam session at the Hammer.

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