Obscurity Found!

"The unfed mind devours itself."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:51:22 -0400

“The unfed mind devours itself.”

- Gore Vidal (via creatingaquietmind)

Photo

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:27:56 -0400

perfectcouture: me

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:54:45 -0400

perfectcouture:

me

kateoplis: “I’m at war with the obvious.” - William Eggleston

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:42:48 -0400

kateoplis:

“I’m at war with the obvious.” - William Eggleston

pamelapegasusthornton: OTP: Mulder/glasses

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:42:22 -0400

pamelapegasusthornton:

OTP: Mulder/glasses

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:13:26 -0400

When I can't wait for my best friend to visit

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:18:35 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

clientsfromhell: Rules for Freelancers

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:57:49 -0400

clientsfromhell:

Rules for Freelancers

Salvador Dalí. Photo by Willy Rizzo

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:49:11 -0400

Salvador Dalí. Photo by Willy Rizzo

cornersoftheworld: Follower...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:22:21 -0400

cornersoftheworld:

Follower photography!
Tumblr: pearlkillers
Flickr: tate.drucker

climateadaptation: From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:32:14 -0400

climateadaptation:

From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:

‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.

I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.

Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.

The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.

‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.

— Michael Marten

Lens Culture

"We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:30:22 -0400

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.”

- Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918, on the role of scientific culture in modern society – timeless, remarkably timely read.

Pair with how ignorance drives science.

(via explore-blog)