I weigh 292 lbs on Jupiter, 43 lbs on Mars and 18 lbs in la Lune.

Takabatake Kashou / 高畠華宵. Japanese Illustrator (1888 -1966) 

Rainbow Gathering

Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held in outdoor settings, and espousing and practicing ideals of peace, love, harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media.

Morning cat

Oh come here, you.

Death Self

Marina Abramovic and her lover/collaborator Ulay performing “Death Self”. This performance consisted of the two artists seated in front of each other, connected at the mouth. They took in each other’s breaths until all of their available oxygen had been used up. The performance lasted only 17 minutes, resulting in both artists collapsing unconscious to the floor, having filled their lungs with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.

Multiple Catgasms

I've been looking at cat photos for hours now. And grinning. And sighing. And going insane I don't know how to contain my amusement/obsession/mixed feelings I get by just looking at them.

And I swear I need to stop. For now. For today. But I can't.

Why I like cats: They're stubborn. They're arrogant. They're selfish. They manipulate you. They don't need you. They're high maintenance. They're lazy. They don't care. They're better than people. And when they come to like you, they can be the sweetest creatures ever. Oh sweet Jesus the cat cuddles.

 One cat.

 

Earth’s Haunting Craters

1. Meteor Crater, Arizona — Photographer Stan Gaz was in Arizona when he came across a postcard of the Meteor Crater.

“The postcard intrigued me, so I went to see it,” he said. “My father was a geologist. He would take me on these expeditional trips to go rock hunting when he was alive, when I was a kid. When I saw the crater it made me think of him, what he would have thought, what his reaction would have been. Immediately I thought, ‘I’m going to look into this more.’”

In 2003, Gaz launched into a six-year-long global project of tracking down and photographing the planet’s cosmic scars, beginning with Meteor Crater. The results speak for themselves: haunting, otherworldly images of craters that are familiar, and yet utterly strange.

2. Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia — Gaz’s riveting, stark images make you wonder if you’re actually looking at Earth. In the image above, he turned the sky into a black, alien thing by using a red filter (in front of black and white film) when he shot the 14 mile-wide Gosses Bluff, which formed 142.5 million years ago.

"Aboriginals believe that Gosses Bluff was created by a baby falling to Earth from the sky," Gaz said. "The goddesses were dancing and knocked the baby out of their arms. The more mythology that surrounds these places, the more fascinating they are."

3. Upheaval Dome, Utah — It’s not surprising that the origins of some craters are the subject of decades-long controversy. The terrific heat and energy of an impact often vaporize large asteroids made of nearly solid iron and nickel.

Such is the case at Upheaval Dome, shown above. Scientists have gone back and forth over whether the pummeled, uplifted rocks were abused by a salt dome that rose from below, or cosmic artillery from above. In 2008, researchers discovered the presence of shocked quartz (stishovite, or its close cousin coesite) in the dome, confirming its extraterrestrial origins.

5. Henbury, Northern Territory, Australia -- "A lot of my work is about mortality," Gaz said. "By doing it in black and white, you get a sense of beginning and end together, positive and negative."

Nothing could be more appropriate for Henbury, shown above. In a turn of tragic cosmic irony, the great crater hunter and legendary scientist Shoemaker -- the one who put Meteor Crater on the map -- died in a head-on collision with another car while driving outside Alice Springs, Australia in 1997, not far from Henbury.
Sprayed like a shotgun blast across the plains, it's a mute testament to the many strange forms cosmic collisions can take. Just 5,000 years old, these 13 craters range in size from 33 feet to 525 feet in diameter -- tiny compared to others, but more than enough to leave a lasting impression.

Source.

Spiral god

Trent Lane was my first real crush (I was six or seven) and I still have a crush on him until now. The tattoos, the hair, the raspy voice, the laid-back attitude. He plays vocals and lead guitar to Mystik Spiral. Everything about Trent is just too attractive - for me. Even the occasional stupid remarks.  And he's older than me, which is a plus, aside from being tall and thin. 

And Fictional characters are better than real people.

P.S. Thank you Bradley Soileau for rekindling the fire. I think I'm gonna re-watch Daria this summer.

Doomsday Madness

nas·cent /ˈnāsənt/ 

adj.

Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential; 

not yet fully developed.

The Dreamers, 2003

The Zeigarnik Effect

The Zeigarnik Effect is the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete. The automatic system signals the conscious mind, which may be focused on new goals, that a previous activity was left incomplete. It seems to be human nature to finish what we start and, if it is not finished, we experience dissonance. 

Astigmatism

Les deux sœurs, Théodore Chassériau, 1843.  

Paul Delaroche

 

Double exposure photography by Jeen Na 

Rusalochka (1976)

Rusalochka (1976)

"Stupid humans! They believe love exists but they don't think mermaids do. But we know they are wrong, because love is a lie and mermaids exist!"

Multo: Upon Returning / Hallelujah And All Those Things

New Multo EP: Upon Returning / Hallelujah And All Those Things

Paintings made with pure gold and mineral pigments. (Ikenaga Yasunari) 

Santa Maria

Leonardo da Vinci Annunciation (detail)

John Collier - The Death of Albine (1898) 

Veil of Veronica  

Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi. Italian Early Renaissance Painter (1406-1469) 

Three Gorgons, Sickness, Madness, and Death 

Walpurgis Night, Goya

Image by Goya.

Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus (Detail) 

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus (Detail) by Agnolo Bronzino, oil on wood, circa 1545.