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Great space colonies.

From top to bottom:

Angus McKie - The High Frontier from the book The Flights of Icarus (1977) by Donald Lehmkuhl with Martyn and Roger Dean.

Painting by Don Davis from his Space Colony series, 1975

The Three Island Space Colony by Roy Coombes from Harry Harrison’s book ‘Mechanismo’ (1978).

Space station Illustration by Russian artist Andrei Sokolov, 1981.

Space colony painting by Don Davis (1975)

Stanford Torus colony - Gerard O'Neill 1974

Space Station Interior for National Georgraphic magazine by Syd Mead from the book The Guide to Fantasy Art Techniques (1984)

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Tusche / 2015

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Born in 1963, Frederic Fontenoy has been working on his first series representation of the body, considering the photographic gesture as artistic in itself. From “Metamorphosis” in 1988, he plays with the reference to reality due to this medium, and readily relates to the distortions of Andre Kertesz and “The Anatomy of the image” of Hans Bellmer.

In 2006 he began work combines fictional, intimate scenes in the history of avant-garde artists and policies of the first half of the twentieth century as subtle as a powerful eroticism. It is recognized among the symbols which plays Frederic Fontenoy, evocations of the Second World War, and number of citations of surrealist works: space of photography fits well in time and simultaneously uses the collective unconscious .

Crucial point of these “scenes of the darkroom”: the photographer is also in the frame, the main male character. Grand officer of these stagings, this double devilishly imaginative and wicked madness seems to make its most ambitious expression, which is Art. The space of photography, sometimes multiplied by the area is deep, and this report double the photographer about it is not the least of its mirror games.

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Elizabeth Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, Gene Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball, Sharon Tate, Hedy Lamarr, Audrey Hepburn

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Crown shyness

What an interesting word. :D

“Crown shyness is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.“

How do the trees know not to touch each other?

Nobody knows though it’s been studied since the 1920′s.

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Depending on the ground nutrients, allowing sunlight to hit the ground can be very important in the life of big forest trees. If the canopies are too thick, not enough light will go through, and low height vegetation won’t be able to grow under their canopies.

This doesn’t explain how the tree canopies come to not touch, but demonstrates an evolutionary pressure that could instigate the development of this behavior.

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Houses of the Holy, Markus Brunetti

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Los Angeles-based artist and baker Christine McConnell (previously featured here) just finished decorating her parents’ house for Halloween. What was once a charming and inviting home has now been transformed into a spooktacularly awesome Monster House! McConnell cut and painted foam-core insulation board to make the monstrous eyes and vicious pointy teeth.

The house looks even more incredible at night when it’s lit by an eerie green light and there’s smoke pouring out of the ferocious mouth.