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“I was able to spend three years traveling and exploring the Japanese Alps with Nidecker rider @shinbiyajima during the production of “The Fourth Phase” film. During that time I shared so many adventures and conversations with this new friend of mine. After our film released, I really wanted to capture a more authentic portrait of Shin and his process of living and riding as a Japanese snowboarder. I spent about six weeks over two years following Shin around his backyard in the Nagano Prefecture hiking, inquiring and immersing myself in Shin’s universe. Joined by film maker Justin Smith, we wanted to capture an intimate portrait of a lifestyle that is quite foreign compared to the norms of North America, yet still strangely similar to the principles that most snowboarders share around the love of the mountains.“ >> Passion project from #ROAM founding contributor @travisrice and @jtaylorsmith

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Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the “Handbook of British Fungi”.

By Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt, Publication info LondonWilliams and Norgate1881-91 BHL Collections: New York Botanical Garden

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“ Warning: I do this ”

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Thurneysser, 16th century.

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Concept Art from filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s abandoned adaptation of Frank Herbert’s political, mythological science-fiction fantasy novel, “DUNE” in the early-mid 1970s.

A number of notable artist’s, each with their own unique, varyingly popular style, were assembled to work on the bizarre vision of the project, each assigned a different world or different technologies to design.

Primary artists attached to this first attempt at making “DUNE” include those responsible for the work featured above….

H.R. Giger - - the corrupt, gluttonous and sadistic Harkonnen corporate family and their holdings as well as the monstrous sandworts of the titular desert planet

Ron Cobb - - the orni’thopters used for air transport as well as other highly engineered sets and props

Chris Foss - - various spacecraft and architecture

Jean Giraud, or “Moebius” - - characters and costumes

(After the DUNE film folded, apparently before a single shot was filmed, all 4 artists would work on Ridley Scott’s 1979 heavily designed science-fiction/ horror masterpiece, “A L I E N.”