“Inception” Door - Armin Blasbichler
These are framed slides of Pantone swatches! More from the artist here.
Let’s pretend that they are all leaping toward the same thing.
Tonight I will trek out to see if I can find any Scottish Wildcats in the forest. Sightings are rare these days as the Cat is critically endangered. It is the last large mammal predator in the wild in the UK and its conservation and study is critical to its survival.
This chart maps the pelt marking helping one to identify whether a creature is a true Wildcat, hybrid or domestic cat. It also shows how the cat has changed through domestication.
![Everyone needs more dirt dogg’n in their lives. A lil dirt always feeds my heartworm.
believermag:
Edvard Munch’s ”The Scream” sold for $119.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday.
Munch once wrote, “But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.”
What will having this painting do for the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of the owner’s heart? If the new owner even has a worm…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3i6e2MDrW1qzh8wko1_1280.jpg)
Everyone needs more dirt dogg’n in their lives. A lil dirt always feeds my heartworm.
Edvard Munch’s ”The Scream” sold for $119.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday.
Munch once wrote, “But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.”
What will having this painting do for the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of the owner’s heart? If the new owner even has a worm…
![Sweet vest, NdGT. <3
the-star-stuff:
Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in theTitanic re-release
It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original at 4k resolution and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed.
Well, almost nothing.
According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year [April 15, at 4:20 am], in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.”
“And with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said ‘All right, send me the right stars for that exact time and I’ll put it in the movie.’”
So Tyson did just that, and Cameron re-shot the scene. According to the Telegraph , it is the only major technical change in the film’s re-release.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1uv78usf51qe649zo1_500.jpg)
Sweet vest, NdGT. <3
Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in theTitanic re-release
It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original at 4k resolution and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed.
Well, almost nothing.
According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year [April 15, at 4:20 am], in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.”
“And with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said ‘All right, send me the right stars for that exact time and I’ll put it in the movie.’”
So Tyson did just that, and Cameron re-shot the scene. According to the Telegraph , it is the only major technical change in the film’s re-release.
intrinsicallylinkedlife: Honeypot Ants
Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which are gorged with food by workers, to the point that their abdomens swell enormously. Other ants then extract nourishment from them. They function essentially as living larders.
Many insects, notably honey bees and some wasps, collect and store liquid for use at a later date. However, these insects store their food within their nest or in combs. Honey ants are unique in using their own bodies as living storage, but they have more function than just storing food. Some store liquids, body fat, and water from insect prey brought to them by worker ants. They can later serve as a food source for their fellow ants when food is otherwise scarce.
Honeypot ants such as Camponotus inflatus are edible and form an occasional part of the diet of various Australian Aboriginal peoples.
(via livingthescilife)
I like the looks of these.
Books I want to read.
I checked out the the Table of Contents for the Fairyland of Science. It looks amazing:
TABLE OF CONTENTS Lecture I The Fairy-Land of Science; How to Enter It; How to Use It; And How to Enjoy It Lecture II Sunbeams, and the Work They Do Lecture III The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live Lecture IV A Drop of Water on its Travels Lecture V The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice Lecture VI The Voices of Nature, and How We Hear Them Lecture VII The Life of a Primrose Lecture VIII The History of a Piece of Coal Lecture IX Bees in the Hive Lecture X Bees and Flowers
(Source: thenearsightedmonkey)
Julia Stoops, Alysia Duckler Gallery — 1997
Here, There
A piece about the relativity of perception, Here, There cannot be grasped “correctly” from any one spot in the gallery. A series of anamorphic projections painted directly onto the gallery walls shifts and slides in and out of proportion as one moves around the room.
The story told by the images of red birds, the lunar cycle, a giant blue shell, an infant girl-deity, a sunbaked landscape, and a series of early incorrect maps of the solar system is one of beginnings and endings, creation and transformation.
(Source: nevver)
