Moon and Star Stuff |
Science. Poetry. |
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"The engraver beetle waits in its iron cage.
You walk, you sleep, you eat. You do a lot
Of other things, too, as the netherworld
Is propped up on stilts above you. Orange
Daylight vanishes without a trace. It’s more
Than you thought it would be, here, in the
Hooded mesmerization of our sunny mornings.
If there is a well, then go to it. If there is not,
Then I’m sorry for what I did not say. Life
Is a string of kindnesses with some other
Beads attached. Pick one of the big ones,
Hold it, polish it like you would a favorite
Bug. The last thing anyone wants is to make
You responsible for the joy that comes on us
Like a sudden plague of fevers in between
The afternoons of fires and the lightening sky."Noelle Kocot, “Poem for Joshua”
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(Source: kqedscience, via physicsphysics)
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What?! (interrobang) this is amazing!
npr:
Sharks and Fish
Via The Warholian.
I can’t tell if these sharks are first draft or last pick for the school dodgeball team…either way: standouts.
—DaisyWow.
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T.S ELIOT, being awesome like it’s no big deal.
along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Hanging despondently at area gates
—T.S. Eliot, Poetry, September 1916
mythologyofblue:T. S. Eliot outside the Faber premises, 24 Russell Square
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NotesI’m an Illustration student, as we were set a collage/montage project with the option of “The Universe” as a theme. One of my classmates, Esme Lonsdale, (who you can see here!) made some beautiful textured, pastel galaxies and nebulae, and I took inspiration from her and the amazing posts of this blog to try my hand at it.
There’s something pleasingly abstract in the globular organic shapes of space stuff that seems to lend itself to collage, and a welcome opportunity to play with colour. I got completely carried away!
1) A collection of galaxies on brown card. The splotchy reds/orange/yellows and blue/greens — these feature in all the pieces – are made from a powdered dye that react with bleach and salt. They bleed perfectly for washy-cloudy-nebulae effects. In some cases I used wax crayon to resist the ink. Sunset and sea scenes from an old calendar neatly matched the colours. There’s chocolate wrappers, white gel pen, and tip-ex in there too.
2 and 3) A black hole feeding – based on the gif here – with and without pearlescent ink clouds.
4) Something a bit more silly to finish! Astronaut and Catronauts admiring a distant galaxy.
(via itsfullofstars)
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Photograph by Jason Lee
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Anthropomorphized planets
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Grains of sand magnified 250x actual size
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Love love love this movie
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Jim Goldberg TURKEY. 1990.
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“People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.”
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You...”
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How self-aggrandizing.
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For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough. We insist each day wrap it’s knuckles through our heart strings and pull. The lows....
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Yes yes yes to all of this.
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Today In History
‘Dr.Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman astronaut on this date June 5, 1987.’
OK, so now it’s...
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Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.
