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Artist on Tumblr

Silvia Grav | on Tumblr (b.1993, Spain)

Madrid-based photographer Silvia Grav achieves a brilliant, dreamlike aesthetic by appropriating techniques that include superimposition, multiple exposure and solarization. The outcome is a captivatingly dark, surreal exploration and study of subjective interposition. Questions are tacitly posed through her images: How does one interpret? What are the affects of dreams on the unconscious and conscious alike? How does time and thought affect memory? As a result, her photographs tend to function like condensed narrations suspended between empiricism and mental projection. (src. Juxtapoz)

© All images courtesy the artist

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There is this gap...

Ira GLASS

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For everyone in doubt .....  THE GAP by Ira Glass

[s-t-y-l-e-t-s]

[chaosophia218]

[ratak-monodosico]

Dolly Setton - Human Body Ingredients, “The Cosmic Recipe for Earthlings”, 2013.

“The Nitrogen in our DNA, the Calcium in our Teeth, the Iron in our Blood, were made in the interiors of Collapsing Stars. We are made of Star Stuff.” - Carl Sagan

[thekhooll-deactivated20210705]

[liberatingreality]

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain  (via ratak-monodosico)

[inneroptics]

[ratak-monodosico]

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” 

Oscar Wilde 

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[austinkleon]

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

Brian Sutton-Smith (via austinkleon)

[paintingsforants]

[greendelle]

Decided to try animating and now I don’t know how to feel about the result. Also, Noire AU, yes?

[inkytasty]

Dear lord. It’s beautiful.

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Things that make your heart beat fast

​A 1,000-year-old list by Sei Shōnagon, a Japanese author and a court lady during the 11th century.

Things that make your heart beat fast

A sparrow with nestlings.

Going past a place where tiny children are playing.

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep.

Looking into a Chinese mirror that’s a little clouded.

A fine gentleman pulls up in his carriage and sends in some request.

To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.

On a night when you’re waiting for someone to come, there’s a sudden gust of rain and something rattles in the wind, making your heart suddenly beat faster.

The Pillow Book (枕草子 Makura no Sōshi?) is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. In it she included lists of all kinds, personal thoughts, interesting events in court, poetry, and some opinions on her contemporaries. While it is mostly a personal work, Shōnagon's writing and poetic skill makes it interesting as a work of literature, and it is valuable as a historical document. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillow_Book

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[austinkleon]

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

Mary Karr (via austinkleon)

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By Kevin J. Weir  http://www.kevinjweir.com/

Other animated gifs created from public domain material : http://publicdomainreview.org/collections_categories/animated-gifs/

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The following are examples of wildlife crossing or structures that allow animals to cross human-made barriers safely. 

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Ohayo (オハヨウ) 1 min short film by Satoshi Kon, 2008.