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ephemera, inspiration, exploration

[newyorker]

Mark Dorf is a Brooklyn-based artist who is interested in how we define and quantify our surroundings through math and science. Take a look at his photographs: http://nyr.kr/1k0hHr4

[onesteplower]

Geometry

[onesteplower]

Auditory time travel.

[onesteplower]

Le vent

[itsokaytobesmart]

Here is physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed’s take:

It’s not fashion, it’s not sociology. It’s not something that you might find beautiful today but won’t find beautiful 10 years from now. The things that we find beautiful today we suspect would be beautiful for all eternity. And the reason is, what...

[onesteplower]

Leave a little light on.

Stop motion animation by Ainslie Henderson.

[onesteplower]

The Sonny Sharrock Quartet Stupid Fuck (by James Fischetti)

[m1ssred]

chemical reaction

[howstuffworks]

These are mesmerizing! 

[onesteplower]

Chemical reactions

[newyorker]

John Colapinto speaks with Diane Radycki, the author of a new book about the German modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker: http://nyr.kr/1aNLX4w

“Radycki performs some sharp detective work to suggest that Picasso’s knowledge of a 1906 Modersohn-Becker portrait played a crucial role in his solving the problem, later that same year, of how to paint the head in his seminal portrait of Gertrude Stein—just one piece of evidence that allows Radycki to call Modersohn-Becker’s story ‘the missing piece in the history of twentieth-century modernism.’”

“Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace” (1906). Courtesy of Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen/Berlin.

[onesteplower]

<3

[onesteplower]

Just the two of us - portraits of cosplayers at home by Klaus Pichler

(found via howstuffworks)

[onesteplower]

[onesteplower]

Savageugly

My other tumblr is where I keep stuff I make.

[hmhlit]

The 20 Best Books in Translation You've Never Read

[invisiblestories]

Chad Post (Open Letter Books) and I compiled a list of translations you may never have read for Publishers Weekly. With only 20 titles on the list, we couldn’t be comprehensive, but hope you discover something new. (via hmhlit)

[onesteplower]

I would add The Ten Thousand Things to this list.

[seeandsmile]

Ben Giles

http://cargocollective.com/bengiles

[onesteplower]

Ben Giles

[smithsonianmag]

Macro Photos of Bees’ Heads

From the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab’s Flickr page come these amazing photos of bees’ heads. Photographed by Sam Droege, these photos offer a glimpse into the micro world of bees that most never see.

Ed note: This new sperm bank for honey bees could help fight colony collapse disorder.

h/t BoingBoing

[onesteplower]

Time Study by Marvin Bell

[wondertonic]

[onesteplower]

via wondertonic:

Correct Your Friends Like a Dick by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White.

[onesteplower]

Torre David - Caracas, Venezuela

(via kottke.org)