Oh Honey, why so blue?

(Photo: Vincent Kessler / Reuters)

Reuters — Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M’s candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.

Read the complete story here.

Sunday Tune

Robert Rauschenberg
Scrape (Hoarfrost Editions), 1974
Offset Lithograph transferred to collage of paper bags and fabric.
Found via wenvrsleep

Hands

1. Workers for Freedom: White Cotton Shirt with Black Hand Applique (ca. 1985-89) from here
2. Hands from here
3. Hand jumper from here

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. 

-- Kiki Smith

Evie Woltil Richner

All image by Evie Woltil Richner from Burial and Untitled.

Crystal Soap

Crystal soap rocks from FreePeople

Mike Redmond

All by Mike Redmond found via ilikethisblog.

Sundy Tune

Margielas Heavenly Scent

Renaissance man Mark Borthwick presents a fittingly abstract short to herald the arrival of fashion house Maison Martin Margiela’s second perfume, (Untitled) L'Eau. Watch the video on nowness.com. Lovely.

The Science of Smell

Sissel Tolaas: The Science of Smell on Nowness.com.

The Scandinavian Odor Expert Discusses the Future of Sweat Vs. Perfume Scent curator, researcher and “professional provocateur” Sissel Tolaas is currently exploring the aromatic potential of bacteria in her ongoing investigation into the most mysterious and evocative of our senses...click to read, it's interesting stuff!

From otherwordly

Karmen Saat

Karmen Saat Rotten Beauty

found here

Block Shop

See more super hand printed scarfs at blockshoptextiles

The world doesn’t just invent itself:
it needs some coaching, a poke,
to remind it that invention
has always been necessary.

 

And there are more subtle necessities,
like jellyfish and unicorns.
Things the earth could not
think up on its own and so
thought us up.

 

— From “The Joke,” a poem in Fancy Clapping by Mark D. Dunn, reviewed at The Rumpus by Jim Zukowski.

Source: therumpus.net

Mark Rothko

images: found here 
(first one by Vija Clemens)

Happy New Year!!!

Sunday Tune

Je T'aime Jane Jumper by Bella Freud

Chris McCaw

Works from Chris McCaw’s ongoing series Sunburned, which he began in 2006. See more here.

Found here

Ruth Gurvich

Beautiful porcelain vases by Ruth Gurvich from Porcelaine et Papier 2007

Markoto Komatsu

Ceramics from Markoto Komatsu's Crinkle Series, 1975

Quilt//found here