We went to a Halloween party in Detroit last night! This is Mike and I all dressed up to go out. We also saw a concert at the State Theater the night before - Crossfade opened for Buckcherry! We were front row, baby... I got beer splashed all over my hair by a guy in a Jesus costume but we rocked on and didn't suffer much hearing loss. Oh yeah, and "happy birthday" to the guy who was standing by us who was surrounded by beautiful womens. Ya'll made being crammed into a tight space a little more enjoyable.

On a side note, if you have never seen Rivera's Detroit Industry up close, you are truly missing out. It must be seen in person to be fully appreciated because it truly is overwhelming. Rivera even considered it the most successful work of his career! Yeah, baby! Just one more reason Detroit rocks!

I know how much you love interesting origimi, so feast your eyes on these beauties! An entire page filled with origami balls and polyhedra that were folded and photographed by Michał Kosmulsk. This one is called an icosidodecahedron - you can find folding instructions here.

The Institute For Figuring started a collective project to crochet a coral reef, calling it "a wooly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world." Here is a gallery of these beautiful handmade creations. Also see the Hyperbolic Cactus Garden.

"Until the nineteenth century, mathematicians knew about only two kinds of geometry: the Euclidean plane and the sphere. It was a deep shock to their community to find that there existed a completely other spatial structure, one whose existence was only discerned by overturning a two-thousand-year-old prejudice about “parallel” lines. The discovery of hyperbolic space in the 1820’s and 1830’s marked a turning point in mathematics and initiated the formal study of non-Euclidean geometry. Almost two centuries later, Daina Taimina a mathematician at Cornell University made a physical model of the hyperbolic plane – a feat many mathematicians had believed was impossible – using crochet. With hook and yarn the properties of this unique space become manifest to our eyes and hands, enabling tactile exploration of a structure once thought impossible." - IFF

More on hyperbolic geometry:Wikipedia