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photojojo: Amazing things can happen when you have a huge...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:37:23 +0100

Amazing things can happen when you have a huge mirror to spice up your landscape photos. Flickr user Manu Pastrana employed the technique to create a stunning visual effect.

Make sure to check out his Photostream for more amazing work, you won’t be disappointed!

via Loveyourchaos / Rawbdz

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:08:53 +0100

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that’s not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It’s hard and painful for you to talk about these things … and then people just look at you strangely. They haven’t understood what you’ve said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”

- Stephen King, The Body (via larmoyante)

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:24:05 +0100

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

- -James Joyce, Ulysses

Happy Bloomsday!

(via themissourireview)

dvdp: 130616

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:23:48 +0100

dvdp:

130616

volcanize: This Explains Everything I’m really proud of this...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:34:32 +0100

volcanize:

This Explains Everything

I’m really proud of this one guys

likeafieldmouse: Axel Hoedt - Fastnacht (2010) “A document of...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:31:27 +0100

likeafieldmouse:

Axel Hoedt - Fastnacht (2010)

“A document of the famous ‘Fastnacht Festival’, which literally translates to ‘the night before fasting’, a festival celebrated throughout Austria and Switzerland. The annual adornment of masks that are inherently frightening and grotesque stems from the aim of chasing away ‘the spirits of winter away in preparation for the coming spring and new harvest’. The carnival-like festivities stem from both Christian and Pagan traditions.”

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:55:06 +0100

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

- Oscar Wilde (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)

likeafieldmouse: Jenny Holzer - Living (1980-82)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:35:29 +0100

likeafieldmouse:

Jenny Holzer - Living (1980-82)

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:16:05 +0100

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein (via likeafieldmouse)

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:46:57 +0100

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:29:28 +0100

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

- — Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via volumexii)

(I intensely disliked my repeated line line drawings when they first began as a way to ritualize my practice and distill my drawings down. Now the aesthetic I despised has grown on me)

likeafieldmouse: Jenny Holzer

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:56:38 +0100

likeafieldmouse:

Jenny Holzer

Photo

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:17:06 +0100

"Talking to Grief Ah, Grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the..."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:47:30 +0100

“

Talking to Grief

Ah, Grief, I should not treat you
like a homeless dog
who comes to the back door
for a crust, for a meatless bone.
I should trust you.

I should coax you
into the house and give you
your own corner,
a worn mat to lie on,
your own water dish.

You think I don’t know you’ve been living
under my porch.
You long for your real place to be readied
before winter comes. You need
your name,
your collar and tag. You need
the right to warn off intruders,
to consider
my house your own
and me your person
and yourself
my own dog.

”

- Denise Levertov (via entropy-entropy)

"I exist for myself, and for those to whom my unquenchable thirst for freedom gives everything, but..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:47:55 +0100

“I exist for myself, and for those to whom my unquenchable thirst for freedom gives everything, but also for everyone, since insofar as I am able to love - I love everyone. Of noble hearts, I am the noblest - and the most generous of those that yearn to give love in return. - I am a human being, I love death and I love life.”

- “Self-portrait” - Egon Schiele (via rockyrelay)

"Recently, when I got out of the elevator at my usual hour, it occurred to me that my life, whose..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:05:05 +0100

“Recently, when I got out of the elevator at my usual hour, it occurred to me that my life, whose days more and more repeat themselves down to the smallest detail, resembles that punishment in which each pupil must according to his offense write down the same meaningless (in repetition, at least) sentence ten times, a hundred times or even oftener; except that in my case the punishment is given me with only this limitation: “as many times as you can stand it.”

- Franz Kafka, (via substantia-nigra)

Photo

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:40:18 +0100

atomicallena: A New Way to Image Chemical Reactions In the past...

Fri, 31 May 2013 13:52:42 +0100

atomicallena:

A New Way to Image Chemical Reactions

In the past two years, I’ve drawn many mechanisms while working through practice problems, mastering the art of drawing hexagons, and spent many lab periods throwing things into flasks, waiting for long periods of time, hoping that the right bonds are breaking and forming ~~only to nearly have a heart attack during GC analysis when an unknown peak shows up~~.

However, I have always wondered what the molecules actually look like before and after a reaction. Well, chemists and physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have managed to do just this. The “ability to image molecular reactions in this way” will provide a lot more detail about molecules, allowing chemists to get a better look at how they can “fine-tune the reactions to get the products they want.”

Although the goal was to build new graphene nanostructures, Felix Fischer, lead researcher, said the “implications go far beyond just graphene,” giving heterogenous catalysis as an example.

“To understand the chemistry that is actually happening on a catalytic surface, we need a tool that is very selective and tells us which bonds have actually formed and which ones have been broken,” he added. “This technique is unique out there right now for the accuracy with which it gives you structural information. I think it’s groundbreaking.”

Fischer and Michael Crommie, a UC Berkeley professor of physics, used a technique called non-atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM), first used by Gerhard Meyer and his team at IBM Zurich in 2009, which involves probing the surface of the molecule with a fine tip, providing exceptional resolution. Very briefly, to obtain these images, Fischer and Crommie cooled the reaction surface to about 4 K, minimizing the molecules’ movement, used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to locate the molecules, imaging a molecule, heating the surface, then cooling the surface again to image the reaction products.

Read more about these scientists’ remarkable accomplishment in more detail at UC Berkeley News Center.

Related Information

Direct Imaging of Covalent Bond Structure in Single-Molecule Chemical Reactions (May 30 Science Express)

Atom by Atom, Bond by Bond, a Chemical Reaction Caught in the Act (LBNL research story, 5/30/13)

Felix Fischer’s web site

Michael Crommie’s web site

Source: UC Berkeley News Center http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/30/scientists-capture-first-images-of-molecules-before-and-after-reaction/

"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:20:26 +0100

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

- Robert Henri (via 7knotwind)

devidsketchbook: SONOS PLAYGROUND Deconstructed Museum of the...

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:01:09 +0100

SONOS PLAYGROUND Deconstructed | GIFs made by DevidSketchbook

SONOS PLAYGROUND Deconstructed | GIFs made by DevidSketchbook

SONOS PLAYGROUND Deconstructed | GIFs made by DevidSketchbook

devidsketchbook:

SONOS PLAYGROUND Deconstructed

Museum of the Moving Image

[ gif made by DevidSketchbook ]

“Sonos Playground Deconstructed is a site-specific installation in the Nam June Paik / HBO Production Lab at the Museum of the Moving Image. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video.

The installation aims to bring minimalist art to life as an immersive music video environment. Inspired by the wall drawings of Sol LeWitt and the room-flooding sound of the Sonos Playbar, Sonos Playground was originally installed in a 250 sq. ft shed at the Sonos Studio at the 2013 SXSW festival. At Museum of the Moving Image, Sonos Playground Deconstructed has re-imagined the experience using five detached walls suspended above a reflective floor.”