natgeofound:

A wave of rock shaped by wind and rain towers above a plain in Western Australia, September 1963.
Photograph by Robert B. Goodman, National Geographic

Beautiful

artandsciencejournal:

Paper Reefs

Some artists use materials related to the subjects they paint when creating art pieces, but artist Amy Eisenfeld Genser doesn’t pick up found object at her local beach when she creates her reef pieces. She takes pieces of coloured paper, rolls them up, and positions them in a way that the final outcome looks like a natural formation of barnacles or sea sponge.

Her pieces are visually mesmerizing, with a hint of something magical! It is like entering into a new world when you look at her work. The mosaic of shapes and colours created by the rolled paper, juxtaposed onto an already painted canvas, stimulates the senses. The artist herself claims her work is both irregular and ordered, using texture to mimic natural motifs.

It is amazing how paper, a material traditionally made from trees, can be manipulated to recreate the basic structures of a reef, which to some, may be considered a tree of the sea. Nature once again creates a connection within itself through art practices.

-Anna Paluch

The controversial dueling duo, together again on a kitchen towel.

uncannybrettwhite:

Treasure Trove of Empire Strikes Back photos

Love these.

yewknee:

Daft Punk - “Get Lucky” teaser

new Daft Punk: This is sounding goooood to me

danorst:

Moon Rise Time Slice…. this is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds

I’ve never had anything sell so fast on Etsy (under 5 mins). I am already starting on making more, including some different faces. I’m taking special orders so if you’d like a set of your own, let me know and I’ll make some just for you. xx

My childhood at-home teachers!

wnycradiolab:

newyorker:

Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more: http://nyr.kr/13Ewa8J

True fact.

natgeofound:

A milkman and his terrier pose at the back of a milk truck, May 1948.
Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor, National Geographic

Lovely.

wnycradiolab:

wnyc:

“Planet Universe” I make planets out of rusty fire hydrants.

So cool.

-Jody, BL Show-

Do you think this guy knows the frying pan guy?

green-home:

The Artful Gardener / Green Home

dontstaylong:

natgeofound:

A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic

National Geographic just launched a Tumblr of images from their photo archives. This is the first blog I’ve ever seen that I’d be okay with paying for a subscription just to get to read it.

wildandpeaceful:

(via Jack Teagle)

Love the quick-change dresses from Hussein Chalayan’s new line.

via io9

artandsciencejournal:

From Rosemarie Trockel’s ‘A Cosmos’: Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka’s Glass Jellyfish

Rosemarie Trockel invites us into an almost paradoxical cosmos, for the universe this German artist has created does not appear at first sight to be ordered but instead a historical, mirrored storage space in which the reflections of artistic influence (artist on artist, politics on art, nature on art e.t.c.) can be seen. The graceful jellyfish models by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka form a small yet striking part of this collection expounding on Trockel’s desire to ‘create a space for ideas to exist between different disciplines’.

The Blaschka’s blown-glass jellyfish models are some of the many biological specimens they made for the Natural History Museum of Boston in the late 19^th century. The craftsmanship and expertise with which these models were made perfectly compliment the etherealness and fragility of a jellyfish; the apparent complexity of their wispy translucent tentacles appear to contradict their now known evolutionary ‘simplicity’. Trockel displays these specimens in a dark glass case, akin to the deep seas in which the living forms of them reside, thus, these stationary models appear to bob and glide as their prototypes would.

Trockel’s attempt to combine all her artistic inspiration in one space, unperturbed by contemporary expectations for a perfectly ‘coherent’ exhibition is a success. Science plays a huge role in this collection, with a photo of a skinhead with botanical tattoos, the aforementioned German jellyfish models and elaborate floral drawings by Trockel herself. In the room in which all these pieces are placed, Trockel manages to convince the viewer that artistic inspiration needn’t always come from complex human abstractions or social constructions but can instead ensue from the undirected vastness of the natural world.

‘A Cosmos’ is currently on at The Serpentine in London: http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/rosemarie_trockel_a_cosmos.html

Adrian Deen

Glass jelly eeee!

wnycradiolab:

staceythinx:

A knitted anatomy lesson by Shanell Papp 

Papp on the project:

To make the work, I borrowed a human skeleton from the university and collected anatomical textbooks. I also managed to track down a mortuary gurney for displaying the work–a mortuary gave me a gurney after a renovation…they were looking to get rid of it since “people are were getting too fat for the gurney.” I also worked in an old hospital turned history museum. I also went to open house day at a local funeral…they gave me a decorative pen. During my graduate studies, I was granted open access to the gross anatomy lab, though I was long finished making LAB/skeleton at this point. I was given access to draw, look around…. It is always funny how specimens are collected and cared for.

So much cool knitting in this world.

Great. Click the link above, too.

scientificillustration:

Australian lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

London :John van Voorst,1864, 1890-1898..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35774497

love this print.