Her photographs have graced the cover of the pre-eminent journal Science and the halls of MoMA. Her accolades and recognition stretch from a Guggenheim Fellowship to the prestigious Lennart Nilsson Award for medical, technical, and scientific photography. She has appeared in print and in person everywhere from the NYT, to the University of Toronto’s Department of Physics to the National Science Foundation to Apple.com.

She is Felice Frankel; a largely self-taught photographer and scientist, a product of Midwood High School and Brooklyn College, currently a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and research scientist at MIT, and — in the interest of full disclosure — my aunt!

Ms. Frankel took an idea that was previously off-limits — namely altering a scientific image — and, using innate creativity, has turned the world of science communication and imaging on its head.

Wired Science vid:

Read on — by clicking the link below — to explore more of Ms. Frankel’s fascinating and captivating work…

Join me in celebrating the launch of GBK Media by sharing this video slideshow with your friends!

You can find GBK Media on YouTube at this address: youtube.com/gbkmedia. The only all green all Brooklyn video channel on Earth!

Photos and video by yours truly — Ethan Oringel — with the photos taken at Habana Outpost’s awesome — and hopefully annual — Earth Day Expo 2008!

Many thanks to Habana Outpost’s Sean Meehan and Darcy Le Fleming.

And also thanks to Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra for — unbeknownst to them — providing the soundtrack (audio taken from a live show of theirs at Southpaw in Park Slope on April 11, 2008).

You can see, comment on, and share these individual photos at my Brooklyn photo set on flickr.

My friend and I went to Luz Restaurant in Brooklyn for their Earth Day celebration, as I wrote about here and here.

I have finally gotten around to posting the photo I took of the “lights out” dinner on Earth Day, April 22! You can see this photo above and at my greenbk flicker account.

All-in-all, it was probably one of the best meals I’ve had in ages, and that includes a few nights out at excellent restaurants in NYC that were not organic and certainly not “sin luz”.

Read on for the review…

And they thought GBK was cool before the redesign!

Cool In Your Code asked me to do an interview for Earth Day coverage in their Around the Blog section, and I was happy to oblige.

You can read the whole interview here. Also check out posts in the Brooklyn section.

More about the interview and CIYC below the fold…

If you missed GBK’s recent post about Thirteen.org and their green programming — including the video about my favorite artist Andy Goldsworthy — here is your chance to see some great local natural artwork.

The Audubon Center in Prospect Park is showing Jessica Baker’s Leaf and Circle exhibit on their second floor. So if you’re out in the Park one of these weekends go check it out.

See Leaf and Circle:

April 5 - May 26
Thursdays - Sundays, 12 - 5 pm
Prospect Park Audubon Center (MAP)

More on this unique exhibit and the artist below the fold (aka click the link below)…