Illustration of The Eye Of Horus
The Eye of Horus (Eye of Ra, Wadjet). Divided into six parts, each part represents a mathematical fraction and one of the six senses.
Now is the Time to Quit Facebook
It’s over, Facebook. It’s really over.
Last week’s overvalued IPO, and the fact that Zuck owns more than a quarter of the world’s largest social network and refuses to share the cash has put many users over the edge. But months before the IPO rumor even surfaced, there were plenty of folks who had already left Facebook for Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. They are happy to tell you why they left, and they encourage you to do the same. They have joined together on other social networks - Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ - to discuss why they left Facebook, or why they’re thinking about leaving Facebook. On their website, http://www.im-not-on-facebook.com/, they sell mugs and t-shirts (women’s available in four colors! Crew neck available in five colors and white!) for as little as $10.99 a piece. These rebels have banded together in a Facebook-centric culture focused on oversharing the mundane details of life.
The Toy Atlas Rainbow is a wonderful installation of 2,500 old toy cars by UK artist David T. Waller.
(via freshphotons)
Rise Above Plastics
There is a section of the Pacific Ocean twice the size of the continental United States called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Within it, 100 million tons of plastic swirl in a vortex of currents. There is so much plastic in the water that it outnumbers zooplankton by six to one!
This plastic ends up in the stomachs of marine birds and animals. In fact, one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die globally each year due to ingestion of or entanglement in plastics…
(Find out more about how plastics are affecting the oceans.)
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To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann (via thecultofgenius)
By Jenine Shereos, I have seen sculptural artworks created using human hair before, but not quite on the intricate, detailed scale of these amazing leaves. You would be hard pressed to mimic the vein structure of a leaf this well in any other medium, each intersection of the hairs is connected by a tiny knot. All of which have been built up on dissolvable backing material, thus leaving these skeletal structures.
In this series, the intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair. Inspired by the delicate and detailed venation of a leaf, I began stitching individual strands of hair by hand into a water- soluble backing material. At each point where one strand of hair intersected another, I stitched a tiny knot, so that when the backing was dissolved, the entire piece was able to hold its form. Creating this work was a very meditative process for me, as I found myself lost in the detail of the small, organic microcosms that began taking shape.
Horizon is the latest series by Sparky Campanella. These photos are a perfect example of less is more.
The biggest solar flare in six years reached Earth on January 24th and created these beautiful auroras. Photos by Bjorn Jorgensen and Mattias Forsberg.
valentines day all ready and set to go <3
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yesterday this had 2000 notes hahahahha
(Source: anch0red-away, via skyehawks)
