The Elephant Head

An elephant never forgets...and neither do I. I remember everything I need to remember...and some things that I really don't. In my brain crevasses lies a wealth of nonsense. Come sit, and let me entertain you with the nothing.

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Kelvin Kottke

Kelvin Kottke is a multidisciplinary designer and artist interested in holistic branding, illustration, typography, digital photography, and creative direction. Recently, Kelvin Kottke has taken an interest in motion graphics, animation, and 3D rendering. He loves learning new tools and techniques, taking risks, pushing boundaries, and working on collaborative projects with inspiring people.

If you like his work check out his portfolio: Bechance - Dribbble - Instagram

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Beautifully done!

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When you want something the entire Universe conspires to help you achieve it

Paolo Coelho (via fireisice)

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Kitteh I’m not sure that’s what PETA meant.. :) Source

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Photo by Josh Norem

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Top Shot: Pillar and Ice

Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen. The Daily Dozen is 12 photos chosen by the Your Shot editors each day from thousands of recent uploads. Our community has the chance to vote for their favorite from the selection.

Your Shot photographer Chad Briesmeister captured this image was exploring ice caves in Wisconsin. “I took this photo at the Apostle Islands Ice Caves on Lake Superior in Bayfield county. Theres over two miles of caves, frozen ice formations, waterfalls and red sandstone cliffs to be explored.” Photograph by Chad Briesemeister

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Today members of the Department of Awesome Natural Phenomena is currently hovering over Hawaii's Kilauea volcano so that they can all grin at the smiley face that has appeared in the volcano’s Pu'u ‘O'o lava lake crater.

While it may seem like Kilauea was smiling for the cameras, the “face” has a more scientific explanation: The bright spots and incandescent line that created the face shape were produced by normal volcanic activity.

As a lava lake circulates, lava upwelling and downwelling will occur on opposite sides of the lake, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. This often results in a spattering of molten lava, which creates bright spots on the dark-colored, semi-solid lake surface. Circulation can also cause sections of the surface to pull apart, revealing the lava beneath and creating lines.

This infernal smile was captured by helicopter pilot Mick Kalber of the Paradise Helicopters tour company:

[via LiveScience]

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Happy 116th birthday, Ernest Hemingway! 

The great American novelist was born today in 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.

Before becoming the acclaimed author of such novels as The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway responded to an American Red Cross recruitment drive to assist the troops fighting in Europe during World War I. In June 1918, he arrived in Italy and began his assignment as an ambulance driver. In July, he was badly wounded by shrapnel when mortar fire hit his ambulance, however he still managed to rescue a number of Italian soldiers and was awarded the Italian silver cross for his efforts.

After six months recuperation in an Italian hospital, Hemingway returned America began a career in journalism and writing. The horror of the battlefield informed Hemingway’s later writing, and he described what he saw in his nonfiction book Death in the Afternoon. By the end of his life, Hemingway had published 7 novels, 2 nonfiction works, and 7 collections of short stories. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 for his novel The Old Man and the Sea.

An extensive collection of Hemingway’s drafts, personal papers, photographs, and more now resides at the jfklibrary in Boston: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/The-Ernest-Hemingway-Collection.aspx

Images:

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, Milan, Italy. 1918. Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 

Ernest Hemingway sitting at a desk with a typewriter in London’s Dorchester Hotel during World War II. Summer, 1944. Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 

Ernest Hemingway in the cabin of his boat, Pilar. Circa 1950s. Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 

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Happy Birthday, Ernest!

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HBD!

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A Chapel in the Pampas 

Located in the Pampas plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Argentina, Capilla San Bernardo by Nicolás Campodónico rises in a small grove, originally occupied by a rural house and its yards, both dismantled in order to reuse their materials, especially its one-hundred-year-old bricks. The site does not have electricity or any other utilities; nature imposes its own conditions.

In the limit between the trees and the open country, the chapel´s volume opens up towards the sun, capturing the natural light of the sunset in the interior. Outside, a vertical and a horizontal poles are placed separately and projected towards the interior. As a result, every day all year round, the shadow of these, slides along the curved interior, finishing its tour overlapping with each other.

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Way cool architecture...

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Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds salutes police officers in Parma, Ohio who, upon discovering that a mourning dove had built her nest and laid eggs on the windshield cowl of one of their backup squad cars, went out of their way to protect the mama bird rather than displace her.

Officers attached an umbrella to the police car’s windshield, both to give the bird shade and keep her dry, set up a little cup of water for her, and taped off the vehicle so that no one would bother her. They also named her Gerty.

Photos by Julia Tullos, Lisa Lowry, and the City of Parma respectively.

[via Bored Panda]

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Something good....

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1,400 Square Feet of Pastel Candy-Colored Resin Flood the Floors Inside German Museum

Talk about dream home floor goals. Within the Museum Für Neue Kunst in Freiburg, artist Peter Zimmermann has radically transformed the gallery rooms into a monumental and immersive walk-in work. 

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This is what happens when a jellyfish goes over to the Dark Side. While exploring the midwaters of the Arctic Ocean using an ROV in 2002, biologist Kevin A. Raskoff discovered a four-tentacled jellyfish that bears a remarkable resemblance to Darth Vader.

Bathykorus bouilloni is a transparent jelly with a light blue hue, the only species in the genus Bathykorus–Greek for “deep helmet”–that lives between 2,600 and 8,200 feet. It’s less than an inch in diameter, and what sets it apart are its tentacles, its biological equivalent of lightsabers.

Head over to Nerdist to learn more about this awesomely villainous jellyfish.

[via Nerdist]

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Silly man, you do not just dismiss a MUSE on a whim

Sabine Gryphon & Sabine by Nick Bantock (via fireisice)

Nope.

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Polish sculptor Malgorzata Chodakowska creates exquisitely beautiful and dynamic sculptures of bronze and wood that each feature water flowing from their limbs, waists, hair, or clothing. One figure features water flowing up from her shoulder blades like angel’s wings:

Watch this video to see Chodakowska’s beautiful and energetic water fountain sculptures in motion:

[via WHUDAT and My Modern Met]

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Lovely!

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I would never leave the theater...these should happen

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VAN GOGH, Vincent Garden of the Asylum and Tree Trunks and a Stone Bench October 1889, Saint-Rémy Lead pencil, 203 x 305 mm Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam

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Lovely.

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Jam...