Images from...John Ciamillo, and Jun Ware.
18 December 2012
16 December 2012
14 December 2012
“you are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen
to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you
engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the
ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest
corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your
life. You are every single day. So drown yourself in the sea of
knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let
the colors fill your mind.”
13 December 2012
12 December 2012
11 December 2012
10 December 2012
Lava Acorn and Oak Leaf Earrings
1860-70s Lava Acorn & Oak Leaf Earrings, Gold.
From Erie Basin
I can’t ever think of seeing lava acorns before. Carved lava was particularly popular around 1870, when archaeological revivals inspired Italian lava to be carved into Roman ladies and amphorae. But the acorn and oak leaf is a very mid 19th century motif, when it was often used in morning jewelry as a symbol of immortality. So it’s more often seen in black materials like vulcanite or jet, or of plaited hair. In smooth, cool grey lava they take on a much less mournful feeling though, which makes me think of oak’s other symbolism: strength and stability.
9 December 2012
8 December 2012
7 December 2012
6 December 2012
The Door to Hell...
"In 1971, while drilling for natural gas in Darvaza, Turkmenistan, the ground on which the drilling rig was placed collapsed, leaving a large gaping hole exposed with a diameter of around 60 meters. To avoid poisonous gases coming out of the hole, it was decided to let the gases burn. As of 2008, gases in the underground cavern are still burning without interruption. Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell."
Found here
5 December 2012
Doug Perrine captured these beautiful images in the Maldives. The particular location (Vaadhoo Island) has a concentrated population of bioluminescent phytoplankton. Bioluminescence is a natural chemical reaction which occurs when a micro-organism in the water reacts with oxygen. When washed ashore by the tides, the phytoplankton’s chemical energy is turned into light energy, illuminating the waves.
Found via known-stranger
4 December 2012
Hear them both talk about their stained glass window in the below.
Mars
"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ‘tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings…”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
-- Leonardo da Vinci
After touching down on the western side of Mars’ Chryse Planitia in 1976, the Viking 1 lander beamed back the first images from the surface of another planet – revealing for the first time a red, dusty world eerily similar yet strangely different from our own. over the next six years, the lander and its orbiting co-worker sent back hundreds of images of the planet from above and down below, revealing eroded channels, cratered plains and, for the first time, sunset on another world.
Images from Daniel Blau London.
3 December 2012
2 December 2012
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