Colonialism

tomdavenport:

An unexpected side effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiderwebs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before. (Courtesy: National Geographic)

The Nature Of Things

archiemcphee:

Just when we thought the day couldn’t get any more awesome, along came this wonderful bouncing elephant. Boing… Boing… Boing…

[via Design You Trust]

Great

archiemcphee:

For her Tissue Series, artist Lisa Nilsson constructs anatomical cross sections of the human body using rolled pieces of Japanese mulberry paper, a technique known as quilling or paper filigree. Each piece takes several weeks to assemble and begins with an actual photograph of a lateral or mid-sagittal cross section to which she begins pinning small rolls of paper. Depending on its function she rolls the paper on almost anything small and cylindrical including pins, needles, dowels, and drill bits (she even attempted using some of her husband’s 8mm film editing equipment but to no avail). Lastly she even builds the wooden boxes containing the cross-sections by hand. A graduate of RISD, Nilsson now lives and works in Massachusetts and you can learn more about her process in this pair of interviews on All Things Paper and ArtSake.

Be sure to visit Colossal to see more images from this awesome series.

Lovely Work

poler:

#CAMPVIBES

Let’s Go :-)

steelweaver:

During the infamous anti road building protests at Newbury, England in 1996-1997,
Mark Carroll made a short film called ‘The Wild Horses of Newbury’

I don’t think this requires any comment. You will see what you want to see here.

Good Video with an Important message

archiemcphee:

Surf’s Up by Eric Joyner

This awesome painting is part of Eric’s solo exhibit, entitled It’s a Jungle Out There, currently showing at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA.

[via Hi-Fructose]