andwereallwevegot:

“I have lived a long life, and I have seen a few things.

“I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords.

“I saw the birth of the universe. And I watched as time ran out.

“Moment by moment. Until nothing remained- no time. No space. Just me.

“I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman.

“I have watched universes freeze and creations burn.

“I have seen things you wouldn’t believe.

“I have lost things you will never understand.

“And I know things.

“Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken.”

(by request of onna4)

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Cultural Appropriation: A conversation by Sanaa Hamid

This body of work is an exploration of the extent of cultural appropriation and encourages a discussion about it. I give the appropriator and the appropriated the opportunity to defend themselves and create a dialogue between them, while maintaining a neutral stance myself. I am not attacking those who appropriate, merely educating and creating awareness. Neutrality is key in this series, as i remove myself from my political and social status and opinions, stripping the problem to the most basic issue; taking an item that means a great deal to somebody and corrupting it.

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escapekit:

Kontum Indochine Hotel Restaurant 

Designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects, the new restaurant  in Vietnam makes full use of its natural surroundings. The restaurant is supported by 15 bamboo columns which were modeled after the shape of Vietnamese fishing baskets.  

staceythinx:

Jennifer’s McCurdy’s porcelain pottery looks almost as alive as its inspiration. 

McCurdy on her work:

Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life.

Living on Martha’s Vineyard, island time, especially in the winter, seems to conform to nature’s cycles. As a potter, I strive to make my work reflect the balance of life around me. It is important that the patterns I see around me are integrated into my forms.

staceythinx:

Tom Beddard (aka subblue) has been responsible for some of the most fascinating work being done with fractals. His totally mesmerizing video of fractal shapes morphing into one another was one of the first things I posted on this blog.

In his series Fabergé Fractals he has created digitally generated objects with designs as intricate as the eggs they’re named after. 

Beddard on his work:

The 3D fractals are generated by iterative formulas whereby the output of one iteration forms the input for the next. The formulas effectively fold, scale, rotate or flip space. They are truly fractal in the fact that more and more detail can be revealed the closer to the surface you travel.

The fascinating aspect is where combinations of parameters can combine to create structural “resonances” of extraordinary detail and beauty—sometimes naturally organic and other times perfectly geometric. But then like a chaotic system it can completely disappear with the smallest perturbation.

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Then and Now

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alayneestone:

she will not look for solace from a Lannister

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leslieseuffert:

Drew Medlin

“Lightning behind a curtain of heavy rain. Sometimes a simpler bolt can make an effective subject, though here I think the heavy rain is just as important as the bolt. I like the texture provided by the back illumination of the rain with this simpler bolt. The dimming of the bolt really shows off how much rain is falling there.”

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