This was amazing
Bird Rattle, Piegan tribe, ca. 1910. Photographed by Edward S. Curtis. According to The Atlantic:
Curtis secured funding from J.P. Morgan, and visited more than 80 tribes over the next 20 years, taking more than 40,000 photographs, 10,000 wax cylinder recordings, and huge volumes of notes and sketches.
My interest in environmental issues has come to my father’s recent attention. He has now revised his expectations from me and reached a compromise: environmental engineer. Thanks, but putting the word “environmental” in front of it still doesn’t make me want to be an engineer.
Fjaðrárgljúfur, Iceland
The canyon was a product of erosion and build-up of palagonite over quite a few millennia. It has the typical yet beautiful earthy dark brown and green found all throughout Iceland.
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Astounding handmade paper sculptures by Ling Hongbo.
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The Adventures of Marx and Engels, #28
David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Cooper Square, New York, 1983
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“I’ll teach you how to flow.” (The Tempest)
“He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce.” (King John)
“I have within my mind / A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, / Which I will practise.” (The Merchant of Venice)
“That’s an ill phrase.” (Hamlet)
“Holla, holla!” (King Lear)
“I am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the dog–Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself.” (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
“You knights of Tyre / Are excellent in making ladies trip.” (Pericles)
“Just as high as my heart.” (As You Like It)
“Thou art raw.” (As You Like It)
“Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth.” (Henry V)
“Ay, on the front.” (Macbeth)
“Holla, you clown!” (As You Like It)
“Our cake’s dough on both sides.” (The Taming of the Shrew)
“Trip no further, pretty sweeting.” (Twelfth Night)
“Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.” (The Comedy of Errors)
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The “Telephone Tower” in Stockholm. This was one of the main telephone junctions in Stockholm between 1887-1913. About 5000 telephone lines where connected here. After that the tower remained as landmark until 1953 when it was torn down as a result of a fire.
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There is something poetic…
The lone dung beetle.
Rolling its treasure ball in the darkness, watching the night the sky.
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