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Libby "I am, and will always be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams." - The Eleventh Doctor

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From Here To There: A growing map of Manhattan made only of directions from strangers on scraps. 

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If you obsessively read ingredients lists, you might recognize some of these words. Ingredients, a new book by photographer Dwight Eschliman and writer Steve Ettlinger, seeks to demystify 75 common food additives, from acesulfame potassium to xanthan gum, by providing an easy-to-read encyclopedia of sorts on various food additives, their uses, and their history. 

Learn and see more of what makes up your favorite foods here.

Images of additives from Ingredients: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives & 25 Food Products. Courtesy of Dwight Eschliman/Regan Arts            

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Each of these lush landscapes looks like a photo taken in the vast wilds of Middle-earth, but they’re actually incredibly awesome aquariums. It’s been a year since we first discovered the world of competitive aquarium design, aka aquascaping, and the winners of the 2015 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) have just been announced.

Currently a nascent art form (begun in the 90s), aquascaping involves the painstaking arrangement of aquatic plants, rocks, driftwood, and other hardscape elements in massive tanks that take years to prepare. It’s underwater ornamental gardening, sometimes with fish as garden residents.

“The art of aquascaping is still a fledgling endeavor, first started in the 90s by Japanese wildlife photographer Takashi Amano. The annual IAPLC competition has grown dramatically since, with the 2015 contest seeing 2,545 entries from 69 countries. Japan, China, Brazil, and France dominate the top finalist spots (only 13 entries were from the United States).”

Japan’s Takayuki Fukada was the 2015 IAPLC grand prize winner with this beautiful aquarium entitled “Longing”:

Visit Colossal for additional photos and to learn more about the art of competitive aquascaping.

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Cabin #20, children of Hecate

Magic, indeed, is all around us,  in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need  is the ability to see and understand. — Doreen Valiente 

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train track hikes instagram | flickr | facebook

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where can I get the last one

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the sexy face never stop studying

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For four years I carry your bones like water from a well.           Darling I am burning in this life and the next.

Carib Woman, 1818, Khalym Kari Burke-Thomas (via alittleheartandruh)

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really all you need to know about the american health care system is that there’s a popular tv series where a man turns to cooking industrial quantities of crystal meth in order to pay his hospital bills

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