An Eternal Venture

Life hits us hard We must hit harder Psalms 51:10 "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves," 1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it."

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Check out this queen!

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                      Koe no Katachi — 聲の形 ☆  (2016)

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The Art Of Your Name - Kimi No Na Wa 君の名は。Part One - Dir. Makoto Shinkai (2016)

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azumanga daioh

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azumanga daioh

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If I was the protagonist in this story, I'm sure someone would come save me. It would be like a miracle. But I have no one to save me. There is no god who would grant me a miracle. I'm a murderer, after all. But I've done nothing bad. All I did was feed myself. If I hadn't, I would have starved to death. Would it have been better that way? Am I evil because I didn't let myself starve to death? Give me an answer, Muroi-san! I didn't willingly become such a creature. But if I have a life, shouldn't I treasure it? Is that a sin? Muroi-san! This is what it means to be abandoned by God.

Sunako Kirishiki, Shiki (2010)

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Forlorn and Weary

If love is a battle, I’ll never win this war

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Time

It’s funny how you can build your life to be this one huge event. You plan, you scheme, you work hard to get everything. But time after time, the unexpected happens. Something just doesn’t click. And that’s when the tide changes.

It’s funny how someone who could seem so essential to your life just becomes another person, another stranger. If they meant the world right now it would hurt, but you know you’ve moved on when you catch a glimpse without even saying a word.

Life is tossed in multiple directions all through a process of transcendence. Time is crawling away. When will the right one win?

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Who would have ever guessed that Pluto would one day be the most interesting place in the solar system?

MORE. Buckle Up, Space Fans: A New Batch of Pluto Science Is Here

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the sun’s magnetic fields and NASA researchers have discovered “super spiral” galaxies hiding in plain site. These are just two of our Space Photos of the Week.

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Photos of space are everywhere online. Their beauty is dazzling, showing a universe awash in color and light. But if you’re a skeptic, you’ve likely wondered whether it all truly looks like that in real life.

Michael Benson took data from NASA and ESA missions to make 77 images of everything from Pluto to Europa. In his exhibition Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System, Benson tries his best to create images that represent what a moon or planet might actually look like if you could peer at it out a spaceship window.

Check out more photos and read about Benson’s project.

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Cities are no place for birds. They’re full of cars and cats and windows and no end of other threats that maim and kill. Vogelklas Karel Schot is there for them whenever they get hurt.

Photographer Anjès Gesink has volunteered at the shelter for four years. She photographed more than 100 of its feathered patients for her series Vogels Huilen Niet (Birds Don’t Cry). Her close-ups show the birds in the gloved hands of a volunteer, each caption explaining what happened.

“Whereas the blue glove stands for human care, the hand also represents the strong influence of human intervention in city birds’ lives,” she says.

Check out more photos and read about Gesink’s project.

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Nick Brandt uses his moody portraits of elephants, giraffes, and lions to call attention to Africa’s vanishing megafauna. His latest series, Inherit the Dust, imagines these beautiful creatures wandering landscapes they’ve long since been driven out of.

The series features life-size portraits of the animals looming in sweeping panoramas of garbage dumps, highway underpasses, railways and construction sites in Kenya. The jarring and powerful imagery is part of Brandt’s lifelong dedication to highlighting the plight of Africa’s increasingly threatened wildlife.

Check out more photos and read about Brandt’s project.

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海边

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amath is so much fun

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Victor Enrich is the kind of guy who can’t walk down the street without analyzing and comparing buildings. It’s a huge inspiration for his photography, which features humorous digitally manipulated photos of fantastical structures you’d never find in real life and the occasional measuring system you’ve never considered.

Measure is one such photograph. It features the narrow, wedge-shaped building that houses New York’s Storefront gallery inverted on a replica of the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. The image, though trippy, isn’t completely nonsensical: It proves the pavilion measures exactly one “storefront,” or 100 feet long.

Read more about Enrich’s project and his take on the concept of measurement.