Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died over 200 years ago in 1791. The Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden, Germany recently took four portraits of Mozart that had been painted, and with computer averaging, came up with this amazing “photograph” of Mozart.

sea angel

Bathypolaris Carinata of the Polychaetes

Polychaetes are one of the three major groups of segmented worms (Phylum Annelida), and almost all are marine. Polychaeta means “many chaeta”, with chaeta being the numerous brittles sticking out the side of each segment often between fleshy paddles called parapodia (“side-feet”). Parapodia are used for both swimming and as gills.

Polychaetes are generally bottom living, but many species release eggs that live as plankton during their larval phase (see meroplankton). Only 6 families have species that spend their entire lives in the plankton, with some bottom dwelling species doing some of their hunting in the water column, or moving into the water column to spawn. Pelagic polychaetes are all predatory, although what they eat is poorly known. Some have very well developed eyes and most have obvious sensory tentacles. The life cycle and life expectancy of most pelagic species is also poorly known.

Russ Hopcroft in Arctic Ocean Diversity

image source: Hopcroft/UAF/CoML/NOAA 

twothunderbirds:

the beautiful depths (by John K. Goodman)

sea butterfly

This is what you get when put salt on a plate and vibrate it at a specific frequency. Notice the geometric pattern is built out of circles.

The higher the frequency, the more complicated the pattern.

isn’t nature awesome? 

Cemetery (1931) – José Clemente Orozco

hyper dimensional matrix
(there’s something inside you, boy)