Cecropia by Christian Schoeler Maldonado
About the project:
“Unless you clearly see that ugliness Which makes me beatiful, You cannot know that there is a certain Ugliness more beautiful than any beauty. - Il Vertunno dell’ Arcimboldo Don Gregorio Camanini Milano, 1591.”
Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo in the 16th century, this project became an investigation on the relativeness of the beauty. Each photograph shows one individual leaf from the Cecropia tree after one month of it’s fall. They are naturally transformed into organic shapes and sometimes into weird faces and masks or even human figures. Captured in the way they were at the moment, but carefully positioned and lightened to better show it’s individual character.
(via freshphotons)
Taken with instagram
Lyonnais - Dusted At Mount Sinai (by Lyonnais)
(via travisekmark)
Taken with instagram
So great! Fan-made title sequence for the Tintin movie by James Curran.
(via Cartoon Brew)
This is so awesoooome!
Interesting knowledge exchange group: http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org
Taken with Instagram at Rest Area # 62
Why: The birds’ shiny feathers are coated in natural oils that keep them warm and waterproof in the icy waters. The crude oil from the spill destroys the penguins’ natural oils. When this happens, the birds cannot protect themselves from the cold. To make matters worse, penguins preen—they clean and smooth their feathers using their beaks. If a penguin preens after an oil spill, it will swallow poisonous oil, and probably die. The wool sweaters keep in the penguins’ body heat, and prevent them from being poisoned by the oils.
Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be way, WAY harder to buy a Norwegian Black Metal album with your phone at 9:15 on a Thursday night.
Try THAT shit with yr StarTAC, smartass.
Wednesdays get weird around here. (Taken with Instagram at Armchair Media)
