Planetary Folklore

Via Harvard's Houghton Library

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The background brain colour you see in complete darkness. Also known as DARK LIGHT or BRAIN GRAY - "it is perceived as lighter than a black object in normal lighting conditions, because contra...

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Tomma Abts (Winner of the 2006 Turner Prize)

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Eat Sleep Pattern Repeat Repeat Repeat on Society6

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"STOPCYCLE is a series of 25 small scale sculptures, which as an ensemble create a seamless 25 frame animated loop. The work explores changes of form, and sound using repetition through time. Th...

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Planetary Folklore is designer Martin Isaac's blog - a visual collection of random bits and pieces. Less about Mo Wax artist As One (alias Kirk Degiorgio) and his album called 'Planetary Folklore' and more about the Victor Vasarely's ideas... although I quite like that album.

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2016/04/a-gif-for-wednesday.html

Looks interesting...

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2016/04/midnight-special.html

I could watch this for hours... NASA has a created an ultra-high definition 30-minute portrait of the Sun, put together from data captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) : via IFL Scie...

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Bird Sounds Visualised from Andy Thomas on Vimeo .

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Listening to... White Light 74 - Andrew Weatherall by White Light Mixes on Mixcloud

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#universe

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LOOKING TO CREATE IMAGES AT THE BEST SIZE FOR INSTAGRAM? The Instagram photo size has been updated (as of July 2015) to 1080 pixels, so upload images at a MINIMUM SIZE OF 1080 X 1080.

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I'm a sucker for a space video... Directed by Erik Wernquist (of Wanderers fame) // with photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Planetary Folklore is designer Martin Isaac's blog - a visual collection of random bits and pieces. Less about Mo Wax artist As One (alias Kirk Degiorgio) and his album called 'Planetary Folklore' and more about the Victor Vasarely's ideas... although I quite like that album.

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2015/04/a-gif-for-wednesday.html

Awesome new work from Emma McNally :

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2015/04/space-fold.html

12:31 DESIGNER: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott LOCATION: n/a IMAGE CREDITS: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott "In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, a...

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Love these soft pastel drawings of icebergs by artist Zaria Forman Pastels Become Water: New Work by Zaria Forman

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2015/04/chasing-light.html

Awesome ferrofluid patterns (love that stuff!): Via Synaptic Stimuli

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Via big blue boo

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Beautiful... the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side:

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Unusual 'selfies' by Olivia Vankuiken , a high school senior in New Jersey - a series of unique self portraits made by cultivating her own bacteria in petri dishes.

http://www.planetaryfolklore.com/2015/03/bacterial-self-portrait.html

"At GE Global Research, workers heat a tube of almost pure quartz to temperatures of around 1,700 degrees Celsius to create custom laboratory glassware." Source: GE Reports

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"WHEN THEY CREATE, THEY FORGET THIS NOTHINGNESS FOR A MOMENT AND FORM THEIR CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD." Quote: Karel Malich Photo: Milan Malíček

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Society6 have added Wall Tapestries... Introducing New Wall Tapestries to Society6!

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Source: PATAKK

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