Lauren in the Attic

My name is Lauren, I live in Melbourne, Australia. I sleep in the attic.

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❀everything that makes it a dream wedding❀

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Everyday Objects Obsessively Organized into Patterns by Adam Hillman

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Cristian Marianciuc Creates a New Decorated Origami Paper Crane Daily for 1,000 Days

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Sunshine on a rainy dahlia

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sphere beads

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Using ink extracted from the sac of a 95-million-year-old cephalopod, artist Esther van Hulsen painted this octopus as part of a collaboration with the Natural History Museum in Oslo where it now hangs. 

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Holy guac!!!

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photos by alex geifman, who spent two months following a family of rüppell’s foxes in jerusalem’s ben shemen forest nature reserve. says geifman, “i live in the middle east on the desert’s edge. the colours are dull here, animals shy, the sky is flat and cloudless. for years i considered my country not suitable for nature photography.”    

“eventually i discovered that dusty air softens the light and cloudless sky guarantees the sunset light. lack of open spaces led to the fact that animals live near by people and i can photograph them on daily basis before and after work.”  

in fact, the burrow of these foxes was located close to a dirt road, and as alex explains, “because of this closeness, the foxes got used to the bypassing cars and cyclists, and i was able to capture their behavior from my car without attracting their attention at all.”

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Foxes, natural history, science, photography, nature, animals, mammals

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Inside the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

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Amazingness, museum, science, photography, collections, natural history, Smithsonian, taxidermy

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evgenia arbugaeva documents vyacheslav korotki, a meteorologist who has spent the past thirty years living alone at a remote arctic outpost on the barents sea, in a century old wooden house that became a meteorological station in 1933, where he was sent by the russian state to measure and log climatic conditions and then transmit the data via radio to moscow. 

notes evgenia, “the world of cities is foreign to him. he doesn’t accept it. i came with the idea of a lonely hermit who ran away from the world because of some heavy drama, but it wasn’t true. he doesn’t get lonely at all. he kind of disappears into tundra, into the snowstorms.” 

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Meteorologist, meteorology, photography, Russian, amazingness

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Embroidered tights

https://www.etsy.com/shop/emteesee

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😍😍😍

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very cool

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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I unapologetically love entomology clothing even if I couldn’t pull these off

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I wore the artist’s ant version of these at my wedding (and I still I continue  to on everyday occasions), and it made/makes me sooo happy

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Today the Department of Phenomenal Papercraft delves into the world of entomological artwork. Paper wasps gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems and mix them with their saliva to create a gray or brown papery material which they use to construct their water-resistant nests. When Italian biological science student Mattia Menchetti provided a captive colony of European paper wasps with colored paper, the insects created awesomely colorful nests.

“He started by feeding his captive wasps yellow paper, and then gradually began introducing more shades. The insects soon created a technicolor home for their larvae. In addition to making for some unusual eye candy, the nest is sturdy as well. A protein in the saliva of European paper wasps is so effective in making their nests waterproof that it’s been used by scientists for a biodegradable drone.”

Visit Mattia Menchetti’s website to check out more of his research projects.

[via mental_floss]

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Art by bugs <3

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How did you spend your long weekend? Oh, you know, just "pottering" around in the kitchen.

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Peter Freuchen and his second wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn in 1947. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.

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Just when you start thinking you’ve had a Real Life, you read something like this and… nope. Not even started.

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Wow.

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