Jamreilly
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Nov 7th, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
Leon Spilliaert, The Open Door, 1945
Nov 5th, 2009 @ 8:44 pm
The Secret You
“Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science’s greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel as though we know ourselves are easy to experience, they are notoriously difficult to explain. So, in order to find out where they come from, Marcus subjects himself to a series of probing experiments.” via BBC Horizon
@ 2:54 pm
“Singular Effects of the Universal Vegetable Pills on a Green Crocer! A Fact!”, 1841, by Charles Jameson Grant
via Quacks, Quackery and Nostrums
@ 2:10 pm
Poster by Simon Page
Nov 4th, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
Fantasy About Future, Russian kid’s book, 1962
@ 11:05 am
Objectified : A documentary by Gary Hustwit about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, with the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.” via Topdocumentary
Nov 3rd, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
Reblogged from pota.
Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 11:20 am
Barry Lopez : Landscape And Dream
From the ridge where we had pitched our tents we looked out over tens of square miles of rolling tundra along the southern edge of the calving grounds of the Western Arctic caribou herd.
On the evening I am thinking about - it was breezy there on Ilingnorak Ridge, and cold; but the late-night sun, small as a kite in the northern sky, poured forth an energy that burned against my cheekbones - it was on that evening that I went on a walk for the first time among the tundra birds. They all build their nests on the ground, so their vulnerability is extreme. I gazed down at a single horned lark no bigger than my fist. She stared back resolute as iron. As I approached, golden plovers abandoned their nests in hysterical ploys, feigning a broken wing to distract me from the woven grass cups that couched their pale, darkly speckled eggs.
I walked on to find Lapland longspurs as still on their nests as stones, their dark eyes gleaming.
The physical landscape is baffling in its ability to transcend whatever we would make of it. It is as subtle in its expression as turns of the mind, and larger than our grasp; and yet it is still knowable. The mind, full of curiosity and analysis, disassembles a landscape and then reassembles the pieces - the nod of a flower, the color of the night sky, the murmur of an animal - trying to fathom its geography. At the same time the mind is trying to find its place within the land, to discover a way to dispel its own sense of estrangement.
Coming awkwardly down a scree slope of frost-riven limestone you make a glass-tinkllng clatter - and at a distance a tundra grizzly rises on its hind legs to study you; the dish-shaped paws of its front legs deathly still, the stance so human it is unnerving.
The individual’s dream, whether it be so private a wish as that the joyful determination of nesting arctic birds might infuse a distant friend weary of life, or a magnanimous wish, that a piece of scientific information wrested from the landscape might serve one’s community - in individual dreams is the hope that one’s own life will not have been lived for nothing. The very much larger dream, that of a people, is a story we have been carrying with us for millenia. It is a narrative of determination and hope that follows a question: What will we do as the wisdom of our past bears down on our future?
- Barry Lopez, from preface to Arctic Dreams : Desire and Imagination in a Northern Landcsape, 1986.
@ 11:01 am
November 2, 2008 on Ordinary Finds contained a tribute to the unknown Danish Surrealist, Cubist and Constructivist artists who were exhibited at the great Copenhagen Museum of Modern Art, Arken (The Ark)
Among the several artists featured, was the almost forgotten provocateur (and the first Danish Surrealist, or more properly the solitary Danish Dadaist) Eugéne de Sala (actual name Osvald Lykkebjerg Salomonsen, but as he said: “One’s name must sparkle like a jewel”)…
Above: Eugéne de Sala: Cubist Self-Portrait, n.d.
Reblogged from Ordinary finds.
Oct 31st, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Sugar and Spice: Stephanie Beacham Meets Dracula In The Groovy 1970’s
via trixietreats and mudwerks:
Reblogged from death becomes her.
@ 12:48 pm
Hello. Happy Halloween.
I am trying to figure out which restroom to use.
via Powerhouse Museum Collection
Reblogged from Agent 3Z.
Oct 21st, 2009 @ 8:28 pm
LSD : The Beyond Within. A documentary from the BBC in 1986 about the rise and fall of the LSD phenomenon, with some great historical footage and contemporary interviews with Albert Hoffman, Humphrey Osmond, Ken Kesey, and others involved in the social trajectoryof LSD at the time. The program places special focus on the claimed spiritual nature of the LSD experience and interviews two participants from the famous ‘Good Friday Experiment’ conducted by Walter Pahnke at the Harvard Divinity School in 1962. (1 of 2: part 2)
@ 7:21 pm
TED talk: Julian Treasure on Four Ways Sound Affects Us
Reblogged from Production Advice Tumblr.
Oct 19th, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
The year’s best pictures from the world of medicine | New Scientist
Another image by Spike Walker shows plankton. In this image he uses Rheinberg illumination, whereby coloured discs are used to provide vibrant colours, making fast-moving plankton visible against a brilliant blue background.
Reblogged from sloth unleashed.
Oct 16th, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
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Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant*
i hope you are doing well wherever you are and also happy friday imaginary constructs -mumblelard
*Silent Grove Baptist Church, Clarksdale Mississippi, 1942, recorded by Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones
… via mumblelard
Reblogged from this is water, this is water, this is water....
