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Yeah. We live, we die. Ultimately, nothing means anything.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Sol LeWitt. Two Centimeter Wavy Bands In Colors, 1996.

Via

Moorish Woman - Dario Villares Barbosa, 1919

politicalhouse:

United Nations: World is On Course to Run Out of Water
The world is on a crash course to run out of freshwater, according to United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. At yesterday’s UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity, Ban Ki-moon addressed a number of the water security issues facing the planet today. Only a small amount of water on earth is freshwater, and the Secretary General reinforced that there is a delicate relationship between water and biodiversity.
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explore-blog:

The Emotionary, “words that don’t exist for feelings that do.” Complement with some playful takes on unusual words that do exist and a Cat-to-English translation.

james-hatley:

Better batten down the hatches.

japan-photo:

Fukuda Heihachiro: “Ripples”, 1932The Meiji Crisis in Japanese ArtNew York Times, March 27, 2013
ROME — After more than 200 years of self-imposed isolation Japan re-established diplomatic and trading relations with the outside world in 1854, during the last years of the shoguns. With the restoration of the rule of the Meiji emperor in 1868, Japan was opened up to an unstoppable flood of influence from the West. Even during the period of isolation some artists were exposed to Chinese and Western art through the privileged port of Nagasaki. Chinese artists visited the city, which also acted as a conduit for Western books and prints, introducing techniques such as scientific perspective and chiaroscuro shading. But the vast scale of Western inroads and the collapse of traditional patronage that followed the Meiji restoration threw Japanese art into a state of crisis. In the face of this, artists found themselves dividing into two broad schools: nihonga, which continued to use time-honored Japanese materials and techniques, and yoga, which adopted Western-style oil painting. Nihonga artists are among the least known outside their home country of all the principal historic schools of Japanese painting, and are little represented in international collections. Two important exhibitions of nihonga paintings were held in Rome, in 1911 and 1930. The second event, showing 177 pieces by 79 artists, attracted 166,500.
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wasbella102:

Jeffrey T. Larson: Yellow tractor
oil on canvas

jaysticks:

Big Sur - California

<3

movieposteroftheday:

French affiche for PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany/USA, 1984)
Artist: Guy Peellaert (1934-2008) [see also]
Poster source: MoviePosterDB
PARIS, TEXAS unanimously won the Palme d’Or in 1984 and swept all three juried awards, including the FIPRESCI and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

narcissusskisses:

by Brian Griffin
Siouxsie Sioux

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

During a solar flare, magnetic field lines on the sun are often visible due to the flow of plasma—charged particles—along the lines. According to theory, these magnetic lines should remain intact, but they are sometimes observed breaking and reconnecting with other lines. An interdisciplinary team of researchers suggests that turbulence may be the missing link. In their magnetohydrodynamic simulation, they found that the presence of chaotic turbulent motions made the magnetic line motion entirely unpredictable, whereas laminar flows behaved according to conventional flux-freezing theory. (Photo credit: NASA SDO; Research credit: G. Eyink et al.; via SpaceRef; submitted by jshoer)

journalofanobody:

The Moon was out
we saw some sheep.
We saw some sheep
take a walk in their sleep.
By the light of the moon,
by the light of a star,
they walked all night
from near to far.
—Dr. Seuss
(Image: Percy French, Sheep in Moonlight)

Sébastien Preschoux