music of the spheres

"There is a labyrinth which is a straight line."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:40 +0200

“There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.”

- Jorge Luis Borges (via druuuuuu)

ifveniceissinking: ‘A Short Film about Kissing’ Directed by...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:37 +0200

ifveniceissinking:

‘A Short Film about Kissing’ Directed by Wim Wenders, starring Liv Tyler (x)

"In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:32 +0200

“

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

”

- Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole” (via arpeggia)

saisonlune: marco guerra

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:05 +0200

saisonlune:

marco guerra

"When I wake up just before dawn and hear the throbbing voices of birds as they echo against the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:57 +0200

“When I wake up just before dawn and hear the throbbing voices of birds as they echo against the silence, I am overpowered by yearning. When I ride in the dark on stark roads through dry, bald hills, I ache with desperate longing. I don’t know what I am longing for, maybe for some place of my own within these images, some place where I fit, instead of being the one human being still awake, the only thing moving across the hills in the arid darkness. Maybe that ache is loneliness. I haven’t found a name for the feeling yet, nor do I know exactly what awakes in me. But instinct warns me that it is too potent for me, that my soul is on the verge of cracking when I feel it that way. I cannot handle the sheer power of those wild emotions by myself. I have to find some way to share them. That is why I write. It’s instinctive. I just have to—because it is awake like lava in my blood, and sustains me.”

- Rachel Corrie, Let Me Stand Alone (via awritersruminations)

neurosciencestuff: Temporal Processing in the Olfactory System: Can We See a Smell? Sensory...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:38 +0200

neurosciencestuff:

Temporal Processing in the Olfactory System: Can We See a Smell?

Sensory processing circuits in the visual and olfactory systems receive input from complex, rapidly changing environments. Although patterns of light and plumes of odor create different distributions of activity in the retina and olfactory bulb, both structures use what appears on the surface similar temporal coding strategies to convey information to higher areas in the brain. We compare temporal coding in the early stages of the olfactory and visual systems, highlighting recent progress in understanding the role of time in olfactory coding during active sensing by behaving animals. We also examine studies that address the divergent circuit mechanisms that generate temporal codes in the two systems, and find that they provide physiological information directly related to functional questions raised by neuroanatomical studies of Ramon y Cajal over a century ago. Consideration of differences in neural activity in sensory systems contributes to generating new approaches to understand signal processing.

invisiblestories: Inuit Genealogy, Jean Malaurie (via...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:29 +0200

invisiblestories:

Inuit Genealogy, Jean Malaurie (via huldrapress)

alanamcdowell: Alexander McQueen. ‘SAVAGE BEAUTY.’ Literally A...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:13 +0200

Dress VOSS, spring/summer 2001 Razor-clam shells stripped and varnished

alanamcdowell:

Alexander McQueen.
‘SAVAGE BEAUTY.’
Literally A Genius.

"I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life...."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:58 +0200

“I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. I feel like it must be universal. Everybody must know that somewhere.”

- Laura Marling (via ohfairies)

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:47 +0200

I just realized that 42 seconds into 4:23 pm on August 4, 2015, that will be the only moment in our...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:24 +0200

I just realized that 42 seconds into 4:23 pm on August 4, 2015, that will be the only moment in our lifetime where the date is all of The Numbers from Lost in order: 4/8/15, 16:23:42

“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk, but I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:13 +0200

“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk, but I don’t know if I’d be a very convincing Hulk.”

"Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:55:52 +0200

“Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

- (via worldinink)

— the writer reblogs, being distracted by the internet

(via cameralinz)

Eleonore Hendricks by Cass Bird for Jalouse #133 2010

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:55:43 +0200

Eleonore Hendricks by Cass Bird for Jalouse #133 2010

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: The world’s most powerful artificial...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:55:32 +0200

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

The world’s most powerful artificial tornado is part of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Though popular enough with visitors that the staff will bring out smoke generators to make it visible, the tornado was not built as an attraction - It’s actually part of the building’s fire protection system. The modern open design of the museum meant that conventional smoke removal systems were inadequate. Instead vorticity is generated in the central lobby with 144 wall-mounted jets. The angular velocity created by the jets is strongest at the middle, in the vortex core, due to conservation of angular momentum - exactly the way a spinning ice skater speeds up by pulling his arms in. The core of the vortex is a low pressure area, which draws outside air toward it - this is how the tornado pulls in smoke when there is a fire. The fan on the ceiling provides the pressure draw necessary for the smoke to be pulled up and out of the building at a supposed rate of 4 tons per minute. See the tornado in action here. (Photo credit: Mercedes-Benz Passion; submitted by Ivan)

"Like our hearts: darkness showed us their capacity. Our full hearts—at the time, they seemed..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:11 +0200

“Like our hearts: darkness
showed us their capacity.
Our full hearts—at the time, they seemed so impressive.”

- From the Japanese (The Triumph of Achilles), Louise Glück

Colour chart used by Austrian botanical illustrator Ferdinand...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:07 +0200

Colour chart used by Austrian botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) for his field observations. His technique was to sketch a ‘painting-by-numbers’ in situ, which he could later add colour to after returning from whichever botanical expedition he was on. The example of his painting shown here is a depiction of Grevillea banksii, named for the great Sir Joseph. (via oak apples.)

"The psychological definition of loneliness hasn’t changed much since Fromm-Reichmann laid it out...."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:00 +0200

“The psychological definition of loneliness hasn’t changed much since Fromm-Reichmann laid it out. “Real loneliness,” as she called it, is not what the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard characterized as the “shut-upness” and solitariness of the civilized. Nor is “real loneliness” the happy solitude of the productive artist or the passing irritation of being cooped up with the flu while all your friends go off on some adventure. It’s not being dissatisfied with your companion of the moment—your friend or lover or even spouse— unless you chronically find yourself in that situation, in which case you may in fact be a lonely person. Fromm-Reichmann even distinguished “real loneliness” from mourning, since the well-adjusted eventually get over that, and from depression, which may be a symptom of loneliness but is rarely the cause. Loneliness, she said—and this will surprise no one—is the want of intimacy.”

- The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You | New Republic

I recommend reading the whole article, it’s really interesting.

(via twistednuns)

voguelovesme: angela lindvall by david sims for jil sander...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:54 +0200

voguelovesme:

angela lindvall by david sims for jil sander fall winter 1997/98 ad campaign

"As a child I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body.” Not my mother, my elder sister, my..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:49 +0200

“As a child I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body.” Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia, because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.”

- Kate Winslet (via weaverofstars)