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via artandsciencejournal:

Mineral Microscopy

Stephanie Bateman-Graham does mineral microscopy, or as she prefers to call it “using a low-powered digital toy microscope to take pictures of beautiful minerals”. In these works Bateman-Graham discovers the parts of nature that are weirdly similar to recognizable art styles — from Van Gogh impressionism to the fractured lines of Picasso. I’ve included her descriptions of the three works above:

Ecosystem (Moss Agate):  Do you see a mixed population of microbes living together in a complete ecosystem? Actually it’s a microscope view of the mineral Stringy Moss Agate from Lake Bonneville. The material is translucent which gives a watery feel to the image, but it is entirely solid crystal.

Heart of Stony Glass (Opalite): Microscope view of the Australian mineral Rosella Opalite. The light bounces around this veined and fractured crystalline material to reveal a heart and vascular system inside the stone. The amazing brushstrokes and textures in this image are all natural.

Fire Mountain (Lace Agate): A mountain burns in this microscope view of the mineral Laguna Lace Agate from Mexico. Also known as Crazy Lace Agate.

To see more of Bateman-Graham’s works, click here. 

- Lee Jones

This art really rocks. 

I love how both zooming out (see here) and zooming in on Earth can turn it into some of the finest abstract art we have. Neat huh?

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ashleymater:

Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré, daughter of French wildlife photographers Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, was born in Namibia. During her childhood she befriended many wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant called Abu and a leopard nicknamed J&B. She was embraced by the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, as well as how to speak their language.

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How I wish I grew up.

I second this. Also, wasn’t going to reblog at first, but then I saw that frog and I about died. This is so perfect. I want to re-do my childhood.

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thestarlighthotel:

Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.

She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.

‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).

here for everything but the kimono

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stopdropandrun:

Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most Infamous Tragedies with Children

more of the album  here

so good. The JonBenet one is quite intense.

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fuckyeahprisoninmates:

Photographer Isabel Muñoz studied members of the Mara Salvatrucha gangs from Los Angeles and Central American prisons; her work was put on display in downtown Mexico City in October of 2008. Muñoz spent time in prisons in El Salvador photographing the intricate facial, chest and extremity tattoos that feature variations of the gang’s name, which is often abbreviated to “MS” or “MS-13.” The number 13 represents the 13th letter of the alphabet, “M,” referring to “La Eme,” or the Mexican Mafia. The combination of El Salvadorian and Mexican gang affiliations represents solidarity and alliance among Southern California Hispanic gangs. MS-13’s affiliation with Southern California is also exemplified by the words “Sureño” or “Sur,” meaning “Southern” and “South,” respectively, which are also often seen tattooed on MS-13 gang members. [x]

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Amazing

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Alternative Limb Project

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thedarlingchild:

photographs of american teenagers taken by joseph szabo, 1969-1988.

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blackfashion:

“AFROPUNK PINUP” in GODS MAGAZINE
PHOTOGRAPHY SEBASTIAN LUCRECIO  
FASHION EDITOR Soukéna Roussi
MAKE UP ARTIST Junko Kioka
HAIRSTYLIST Takayuki Shibata
MODEL India Christin Lane@Ford, Rachel V@MC2

Gilet, vintage. Bustier, Stephanie Paterek for NYC Sex Trash. Choker, GEMMA REDUX.

Source: GODS MAGAZINE

so gorgeous

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likeafieldmouse:

David Maisel - Library of Dust (2008)

“In 1913, the Oregon State Insane Asylum began to cremate the remains of unclaimed patients and their ashes were stored in copper canisters.

After decades in storage the canisters have undergone chemical reactions resulting in explosions of vivid blue-green corrosion. Maisel was granted access to the room in which the canisters were stored to document them for his book.”

Artist’s statement: 

“Among my concerns with Library of Dust are the crises of representation that derive from attempts to index or archive the evidence of trauma; the uncanny ability of objects to portray such trauma; and the revelatory possibilities inherent in images of such traumatic disturbances.

While there are certainly physical and chemical explanations for the ways these canisters have transformed over time, the canisters also encourage us to consider what happens to our own bodies when we die, and to the souls that occupy them.”

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