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ikenbot: The Cosmos as Seen From Namibia, Africa 1. Center...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:42:41 -0700

The Cosmos as Seen From Namibia, Africa

1. Center of Milky Way wideangle view 2. Omega Nebula 3. Trifid and Lagoon nebulas 4. south celestial pole view with Crux and Magellanic Clouds — Martin Reitze

1000scientists: This is My Best, Sell Your Hard Times from the...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:48:30 -0700

1000scientists:

This is My Best, Sell Your Hard Times from the series Pitch Blackness, 2009
Hank Willis Thomas

architectureofdoom: uurrss: Torre Pirelli di Gio Ponti,...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:36:01 -0700

architectureofdoom:

uurrss:

Torre Pirelli di Gio Ponti, 1953

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thekhooll: Sequence Aaron Finnis: “Recording turns the abstract...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:35:21 -0700

thekhooll:

Sequence

Aaron Finnis: “Recording turns the abstract into the tangible. Once on tape, audio, video and still images are simply pieces of plastic. The scene is no longer static but dynamic. It is malleable. It can be cut up, moved around, and pieced back together. Magnetized tape turns the transience in space and time of sound and images into something that is durable and changeable, and this is one of the main drives of my work.”

The Arctic comb jelly or sea nut (Mertensia ovum) is commonly...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:43:36 -0700

The Arctic comb jelly or sea nut (Mertensia ovum) is commonly found in the surface (top 50 meters) in cold, northern waters. Like other cydippid ctenophores, it has two tentacles fringed with smaller tentacles, which are dappled with colloblasts. Colloblasts are specialized cells that, upon contact with other organisms, act as a glue, allowing the comb jelly to pull the food to its mouth with little resistance. This species has light bioluminescence in blues and greens, but the rainbow effect in this photo is caused by light refracting off of its comb-like rows of cilia, which propel it through the water.

Learn more about comb jellies and jellyfish.

(via Arctic Comb Jelly | Ocean Portal | Smithsonian)

thekhooll: Linda Linda Evangelista by Steven Klein for W...

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:18:01 -0700

thekhooll:

Linda

Linda Evangelista by Steven Klein for W September 2012.

letsbuildahome-fr: Starlite Theatre The covered ticket booth to...

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:16:32 -0700

letsbuildahome-fr:

Starlite Theatre

The covered ticket booth to the long abandoned Starlite Drive-In Theatre in Schertz, Texas | Update: The lettering, star, and light fixture has been stripped of the now grafitti-filled structure. - Via

thenewenlightenmentage: Three Lobes in the Nebula

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:15:13 -0700

thenewenlightenmentage:

Three Lobes in the Nebula

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Thu, 30 May 2013 23:01:41 -0700

“Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually unconsciously, by, though, in...

Thu, 30 May 2013 22:37:17 -0700

“Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually unconsciously, by, though, in us – through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations.

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life stories. We must ‘recollect’ ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing – and he must seek meaning, make meaning, in a desperate way, continually inventing, throwing bridges of meaning over abysses of meaninglessness, the chaos that yawns continually beneath him.

The presence of others, other people, excite and rattle him, force him into an endless, frenzied, social chatter, a veritable delirium of identity making and seeking, the presence of plants, a quiet garden, the non-human order, making no social or human demands upon him, allow this identity-delirium to relax, to subside; and by their quiet, non-human self-sufficiency and completeness allow him a rare quietness and self-sufficiency of his own, by offering (beneath, or beyond, all merely human identities and relations) a deep wordless communion with Nature itself, and with this restored sense of being in the world, being real.”

- Oliver Sacks

architectureofdoom: Warehouse Fire (c-type print, 2008),...

Wed, 29 May 2013 17:45:37 -0700

architectureofdoom:

Warehouse Fire (c-type print, 2008), Alexander Shields, from Slave New World (Doha, Qatar)

ziine: ZIINE

Wed, 29 May 2013 17:41:48 -0700

ziine:

ZIINE

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Wed, 29 May 2013 17:37:19 -0700

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Wed, 29 May 2013 17:36:37 -0700

thekhooll: Kleptonaut by Hector Mansilla

Wed, 29 May 2013 17:33:04 -0700

thekhooll:

Kleptonaut

by Hector Mansilla

propaedeuticist: revisions to maps of mars - Giovanni...

Tue, 28 May 2013 23:31:12 -0700

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propaedeuticist:

revisions to maps of mars - Giovanni Schiaperelli

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 23:30:45 -0700

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”

- E. W. Howe

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Tue, 28 May 2013 22:33:52 -0700

My god I love this women so much.

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:32:31 -0700

My god I love this women so much.

ikenbot: The Witches Broom Dear Space, I love you.

Sun, 26 May 2013 23:49:35 -0700

ikenbot:

The Witches Broom

Dear Space, I love you.