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"I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:49:29 +0200

“I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”

- Rumi thanks to Fourteenth (via silencesounds)

Mosa’ab Elshamy - Untitled (2012) Downtown Cairo, 3 Feb...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:05:26 +0200

Mosa’ab Elshamy - Untitled (2012)

Downtown Cairo, 3 Feb 2012. See more on his Flickr.

Donna Solovei - Hyenapine (2011) Part of a series of pastes of...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:17:00 +0200

Donna Solovei - Hyenapine (2011)

Part of a series of pastes of “extinct” imaginary creatures around Cape Town. Concept and video at donnasolovei.wordpress.com

quantangle: Poesia 2012 Work on Paper by Poesia Transcend on...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:27:10 +0200

quantangle:

Poesia 2012 Work on Paper by Poesia Transcend on Flickr.

Advertisement for Columbia Copyright & Patent Company (The...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:31:00 +0200

Advertisement for Columbia Copyright & Patent Company (The New York Clipper, 1906)

“A copyright will protect you from pirates. And make you a fortune.”

Shepard Fairey - Wynwood Mural (Miami, 2009) Photo by Ingrid...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0200

Shepard Fairey - Wynwood Mural (Miami, 2009)

Photo by Ingrid Fetell

"We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up, sometimes, just enough to know that we are..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:37:28 +0200

“We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up, sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wittgenstein - Engelmann: Briefe, Begegnungen, Erinnerungen (Innsbruck, 2006)

Reuben Wu - SOUSY Antenna Field, Svalbard archipelago (2011)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:09:00 +0200

Reuben Wu - SOUSY Antenna Field, Svalbard archipelago (2011)

Vincent Fournier - Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:51:00 +0200

Vincent Fournier - Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard archipelago (2010)

The KHO is an optical observatory used for conducting research on the middle and upper atmosphere.

Egyptian Anonymous (2011) Photo by Gigi Ibrahim. Find more...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:09:00 +0200

Egyptian Anonymous (2011)

Photo by Gigi Ibrahim. Find more street art from the ongoing revolution in Egypt on her Flickr.

Frederic Edwin Church - The Icebergs (oil on canvas, 1861)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:49:07 +0200

Frederic Edwin Church - The Icebergs (oil on canvas, 1861)

Optigram - Gradius (2009)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:32:47 +0200

Optigram - Gradius (2009)

Galaksija August 1978 According to 50 Watts: Illustration...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:34:02 +0200

Galaksija August 1978

According to 50 Watts: Illustration by Nikolai Lutohin for the Yugoslavian science/science fiction magazine.

Find 135 other covers from the 1970s and 80s in Yugodrom’s Flickr set.

Robert Hodgin - Crystalline (2011) One of four generative prints...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:59:00 +0200

Robert Hodgin - Crystalline (2011)

One of four generative prints showing “the propagation of crystalline structures in the presence of a strong magnetic field.” Written in Cinder.

babylonfalling: Dugald Stermer, Ramparts (1966) An object...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:03:39 +0200

babylonfalling:

Dugald Stermer, Ramparts (1966)

An object lesson in what naturally follows when a man receives a small printing press and some assorted type faces as a Christmas gift from his wife.

Continues

Sadly, Stermer, who was art director of the legendary Bay Area muckraking magazine Ramparts during its most influential period in the late sixties, passed away last week. Peter Richardson has a nice tribute over at truthdig.com and Robert Newman re-posted an interview with Stermer at spd.org

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:49:09 +0200

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

- Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)

“The things to do are: the things that need doing, that...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:43:05 +0200

“The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.” — Richard Buckminster Fuller in a letter to “Micheal”, 16 February 1970. Micheal was a 10 year old boy who had inquired in a letter as to whether Fuller was a “doer” or a “thinker”. (via Wikiquote)

Image: Cover of The Buckminster Fuller Reader (Pelican Books, 1972)

freakyfauna: From Solfege de la Couleur by Edouard Fer...

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:50:39 +0200

freakyfauna:

From Solfege de la Couleur by Edouard Fer (1953).

Found at fulltable.

prostheticknowledge: History of Graphic Design - Avant Garde by...

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:21:16 +0300

prostheticknowledge:

History of Graphic Design - Avant Garde by Minji Aye Hong

30 seconds visually demonstrates the Modernist styles

Photo

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:00:37 +0300