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aurum-design: Strigose.

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:18:16 -0700

aurum-design:

Strigose.

monochromevisions:

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:47:00 -0700

monochromevisions:

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:40:39 -0700

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)

vurtual: The eye (by Ralf Wendrich)

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:35:52 -0700

vurtual:

The eye (by Ralf Wendrich)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:40 -0700

sweetbeautifulboy: Michael Stipe & Thomas Dozol...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:14:26 -0700

sweetbeautifulboy:

Michael Stipe & Thomas Dozol photographed by Slava Mogutin for Intimate Portraits: A Joint Exhibition by Maripol and Slava. This show opened on May 16th and runs through June 17th at the Impossible Project NYC Space.

theniftyfifties: Jack Kerouac photographed by Elliot Erwitt in...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:53 -0700

theniftyfifties:

Jack Kerouac photographed by Elliot Erwitt in New York City, 1953.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 09:37:58 -0700

"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:02:03 -0700

“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

- Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)

episodesandaccidents: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Le trombe del...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:15:40 -0700

episodesandaccidents:

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Le trombe del giudizio, 1968 (via)

ϟ silence by Francisco

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:46:57 -0700

ϟ silence by Francisco

"And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:23:37 -0700

“And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”

- Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)

ikenbot: Messier 94: Galactic Wheels within Wheels How many...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:44:01 -0700

ikenbot:

Messier 94: Galactic Wheels within Wheels

How many rings do you see in this striking new image of the galaxy Messier 94 (NGC 4736) as seen by the infrared eyes of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one.

Historically, Messier 94 was considered to have two strikingly different rings: a brilliant, compact band encircling the galaxy’s core, and a faint, broad, swath of stars falling outside its main disk.

Astronomers have recently discovered that the outer ring, seen here in the deep blue glow of starlight, may actually be more of an optical illusion. Their 2009 study combined infrared Spitzer observations with ultraviolet data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, and ground-based surveys in visible (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and near infrared light (Two Micron All Sky Survey). This more complete picture of Messier 94 indicates that we are really seeing two separate spiral arms that, from our perspective, take on the appearance of a single, unbroken ring.

The bright inner ring of Messier 94 is very real, however. This area is sometimes identified as a “starburst ring” because of the frenetic pace of star formation in this confined area. Starbursts like this can often be triggered by gravitational encounters with other galaxies, but in this case may instead be caused by the galaxy’s oval shape.

Tucked in between the inner starburst ring and the outer ring-like arms we find the galaxy’s disk, striated with greenish filaments of dust. While, at first glance, these dusty arcs look like a collection of rings, they actually follow tightly wound spiral arcs.

Messier 94 is about 17 million light years away, making it a distant neighbor of our own Milky Way galaxy. It was first discovered by Charles Messier’s assistant, Pierre Méchain, in 1781 and was added to his supervisor’s famous catalog two days later.

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woodysblues: Gary Snyder resting in a café near Daitoku-ji...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:24:43 -0700

woodysblues:

Gary Snyder resting in a café near Daitoku-ji temple, where he studied zen. Kyoto, Japan, 1963. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

I thought, “What a strange thing is man… like in the Bible it says, Who knoweth the spirit of man that looketh upward? This poor kid ten years younger than I am is making me look like a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn’t got any money: he doesn’t need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this. And what gouty millionaire could get up this rock anyhow? It took us all day to climb.”
And I promised myself that I would begin a new life.
“All over the West, and the mountains in the East, and the desert, I’ll tramp with a rucksack and make it the pure way.”

(Jack Kerouac on Gary Snyder, The Dharma Bums)

derrierelasalledebains: Jack Kerouac, Morris, Whalen

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:23:31 -0700

derrierelasalledebains:

Jack Kerouac, Morris, Whalen

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