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Artist Samantha Keely Smith paints breathtaking abstract landscapes that resemble the swirling waters of the ocean. Using oil paint, enamel, and shellac, Smith builds up multiple translucent layers of color, alternating between soft brushstrokes and large, sweeping gestures to evoke crashing waves, surging tides, and stormy floods.

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Marvel by Moebius.

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R.I.P. Jean Giraud aka Moebius (193 - 2012)

Links: Marvel // illustrations // Comics .

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Oh my  - Knitted Cacti by Andrea Daniel from Odds&Ends.  LOVE LOVE LOVE!

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“George Lucas’s designers must have found inspiration in these smoke helmets.”

This pair of early rescue masks, shown above, dates from between the mid-1800s and World War I. They look a bit familiar, right? Almost 100 years before Darth Vader and C-3PO hit the big screen in “Star Wars” in 1977, these two smoke helmets were worn by firefighters carrying out rescues in smoke-logged buildings. The buzz among collectors is that George Lucas’s designers must have found inspiration in these smoke helmets and others like them. In fact, one well-known 19th-century manufacturer was named Vajen-Bader—you could easily get the name Vader from that.

The black leather helmet on the left is labeled “Respirations Apparat” by “G.B.Konic Altona,” was made in Hamburg, Germany, and has the look of an African Dan mask. The brass, three-quarter face mask to its right was made in Paris by J. Mandet. This type of breathing mask had a very simple apparatus, allowing only a short range of operation. When used, air would be forced into the helmet through no more than 13 meters of flexible tubing by means of a bellows operated remotely from the outside. Both of these masks have mica lenses to help protect the eyes from heat.

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abandoned wedding hall

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(by Andrew H Wagner)

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1956-Forbidden Planet - http://flic.kr/p/nptpXp

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Soldiers’ Inventories by Thom Atkinson, for the Telegraph Magazine. 

editor: Great series of British soldiers’ equipment from different wars and battles through British history & up to the present. See the original story on the Telegraph website, an interview on Creative Review, & full series of images on ThomAtkinson.com. 

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German soldiers posing with a horse they’d mounted with a captured Russian Maxim M1910 machine gun.

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