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busy-circuits: It beats for you.

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:57:12 -0400

It beats for you.

self-pollution: Cedric Laquieze is an artist working out of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:56:31 -0400

Cedric Laquieze is an artist working out of Amsterdam. I like the idea that Cedric has taken the idea of taxidermy art, and added a different twist to it. The idea of skeleton is a clear link to death, but with the flowers adorning them the idea seems to be softened. It’s also a stronger connection to life; if we did not go through such trouble to embalm and preserve, the bodies we bury would give way to other life such as flowers. (Via)

kristaferanka: patloika: Avengers by Kris Anka. YEAH WHUT...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:56:02 -0400

kristaferanka:

patloika:

Avengers by Kris Anka.

YEAH WHUT WHUT.

man, this is like 2 years old now wtf haha

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:51:35 -0400

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:48:46 -0400

thespacegoat: IC 1396: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula An ionized...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:42:21 -0400

thespacegoat:

IC 1396: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

An ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth; it is commonly called the Elephant’s Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. [image via]

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:41:22 -0400

ink-sticks: Vanessa Lake

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:41:08 -0400

ink-sticks:

Vanessa Lake

twogranniesandanaxe: The Underworld divine family coloured!...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:20 -0400

twogranniesandanaxe:

The Underworld divine family coloured! :D

Hades is having a great time, as you can see.

ex0skeletal: Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large, a special...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:39:47 -0400

ex0skeletal:

Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large, a special exhibition of oversized prints by Canadian artist Jim des Rivière

myfiddleisbroken: markperrett: This is...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:38:48 -0400

myfiddleisbroken:

markperrett:

This is insanity.

CREDS: architizer:

The mind-bending sculptures of Jonty Hurwirtz

Rejuvenation

2008 | Copper and Chrome

Kiss of Chytrid

2009-2010 | Resin, Powder and Steel

WHAT. NO.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:22 -0400

"La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants. (The Revolution is like..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:55:31 -0400

“La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants.
(The Revolution is like Saturn: It devours its own children.)”

- Pierre Vergniaud (1753-1793), a French Revolutionary, before his execution. (via fyeahlastwords)

art-of-swords: Group of Mahdist Sufi Moslem Weapons Dated:...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:33:24 -0400

art-of-swords:

Group of Mahdist Sufi Moslem Weapons

Dated: circa 1880

Culture: Sudanese

This group of items originates from the Islamic Mahdist movement of the mid-late 19th century, where Sufi warriors or ‘Ansar’ rose up against the British and Egyptian rulers in a form of Jihad or Holy War.

The Anglo-Sudan War is most famous for the death of General Gordon on the steps of Khartoum Palace. Typically weapons from this context are inscribed with Arabic script in Sudanese form ‘Thuluth’, and the use of lizard and crocodile skin is frequently found associated with scabbards and mounts.

The two large battle axes found here are heavy and solid fighting items, traces of silver patterning remain to the heads, both feature a solid iron topspike, and also a spiked steel butt making these weapons truly formidable. One haft is fully mounted with yellow crocodile skin, the other with some remnants of lizard.

Source: © 2013 Ashoka Arts

Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller, new outtakes from...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:32:07 -0400

Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller, new outtakes from Nylon

shapesupply: Life of Grass by Mathilde Roussel Organic...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:31:55 -0400

shapesupply:

Life of Grass by Mathilde Roussel

Organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds.

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artforadults: Geraldine Georges

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:31:16 -0400

artforadults:

Geraldine Georges

ancientpeoples: Reliefs from temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:03:25 -0400

ancientpeoples:

Reliefs from temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el Bahri

Middle Kingdom, 11th dynasty, ca. 2000 BC

These reliefs show king Montuhotep II, a king who was revered as the ruler who reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period. He build a temple for himself on the westbank of the Nile at Deir el-Bahri (which is now mostly known for the temple of Queen Hatsepsut). We see the king with the white crown of Upper Egypt. His name can be read in the cartouche in front of his face: mn-tw-htp Montuhotep. What is remarkable is the amount of colour that is still present in this relief.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

rustedmachines: By Vandrell

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:01:16 -0400

rustedmachines:

By Vandrell

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane NASA’s...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:59:04 -0400

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image.

False-color image of Saturn's north pole.

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.

“We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn’s hydrogen atmosphere.”

Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn’s atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

Both a terrestrial hurricane and Saturn’s north polar vortex have a central eye with no clouds or very low clouds. Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet’s north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates. The one on Saturn does not drift and is already as far north as it can be.

“The polar hurricane has nowhere else to go, and that’s likely why it’s stuck at the pole,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

Scientists believe the massive storm has been churning for years. When Cassini arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, Saturn’s north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft’s composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex, but a visible-light view had to wait for the passing of the equinox in August 2009. Only then did sunlight begin flooding Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view required a change in the angle of Cassini’s orbits around Saturn so the spacecraft could see the poles.

“Such a stunning and mesmerizing view of the hurricane-like storm at the north pole is only possible because Cassini is on a sportier course, with orbits tilted to loop the spacecraft above and below Saturn’s equatorial plane,” said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers that cover the entirety of the planet.”

Cassini changes its orbital inclination for such an observing campaign only once every few years. Because the spacecraft uses flybys of Saturn’s moon Titan to change the angle of its orbit, the inclined trajectories require attentive oversight from navigators. The path requires careful planning years in advance and sticking very precisely to the planned itinerary to ensure enough propellant is available for the spacecraft to reach future planned orbits and encounters.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI