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medicinal properties

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[flasd]

Scriabin :: key colour scheme

a system of corresponding colors and sounds which was based upon the cycle of fifths and the light spectrum, 1908-1910.

[thingsfromthedirt]

[nickcarr]

Field notes from the time I scouted a decommissioned nuclear power plant...

This is the control room, and if you look closely, you'll see a dark stripe in the carpet running the perimeter of the room. This was referred to as the "velvet rope," and absolutely NO ONE was allowed to cross it without authorization. It was under constant observation from an adjacent office, and I was told that if someone did set foot inside without permission, things got VERY serious VERY quickly.

This is one of the computer stations, and to me, it's such a gorgeous encapsulation of its period of technology, the sort of aesthetic that shows like Lost will bend over backwards to recreate.

As I was scouting, I noticed the day calendar had last been torn off about when the plant closed for good...

Then we went into the nuclear reactor, and the whole damn thing was just so spooky.

Looking back, I think it came from an overwhelming feeling of utter insignificance in the face of the sheer power this colossus was designed to produce.

The scale was just so out of proportion to every day reality, the sort of place where a weight of "46000 LBS" is just casually noted on the side of a part.

Peering into where the core would've been, all I could think is that I'd never want the job where you have to climb down that ladder on the left while this thing was in operation.

If you're interested in seeing more, you can find my full tour here!

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/

And as always, follow for more location scouting fun...

[harmonyinbllue]

Energía Cósmica (Inspiración) (1956), Remedios Varo.

[bestiolin]

nakkusu

[namtaf]

▶︎ Unearthed Forms | Gent1e $oul & Finally Julius | Fast Castle

[makingimages]

[nobrashfestivity]

Kitten, fourth leaf in the album Li-tai Hua-fu-Chi (Album of Paintings from Various Dynasties), Song dynasty  (960-1279), Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

[headspace-hotel]

Seems legit

[headspace-hotel]

we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

[headspace-hotel]

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

[peat-moss-and-starlight]

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

[epicyurian]

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

[headspace-hotel]

Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

[headspace-hotel]

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

[louisegluckpdf]

wednesday night….the thinking man’s friday

[laqueus]

oh hp deskjet 2710e we're really in it now

[cosmicretreat]

[ouo]

It’s been too long since I’ve last had sex, but casual sex is not for me and I don’t want to be in a relationship. Dry I remain

[ouo]

taking care of houseplants. ferns speak to me the most. very difficult to overwater. they appreciate humidity, like me. succulents are difficult, they like being forgotten but I don’t like forgetting.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Imperial Hotel (1915-23) in Tokyo, Japan, by Frank Lloyd Wright. Demolished in 1968.

[everythingfor]

[blondebrainpowered]

"You can be happy and fucked up and still triumph."

-John Waters

Photographer: Adam Golfer