It’s strange, but I like it.
Category: Snippets
I compiled some personal tactics and crowd sourced DIY remedies for the sads (clinical term) into a mini comic! Enjoy xoxo
This impressive video animation that brings to life the illustrations from a noble book of the eighteenth century is so remarkable that we chose it to be the first thing you see as you enter our “Treasures from Korea“ exhibition. It demonstrates what the royal wedding procession of Joseon King Yeongjo and Queen Jeongsun in 1759 must have been like.
Too sad that my family and I haven’t been in a museum together.
Poignant Portraits Of Homeless Individuals Give A Human Face To Poverty
Photographer Lee Jeffries has devoted much of his time to capturing the overlooked faces of homeless individuals across the globe. Trekking from London to Paris to Rome to New York, the UK-based artist has made it his personal mission — he’s actually a full-time accountant by trade — to attach a human face to the epidemics of poverty and addiction.
I’ve always wanted to capture people’s expressions through sketch.
Two Spectacular Photographs of a Volcanic Eruption as Seen from Space by Endeavour
In September and October of 1994, the space shuttle Endeavour was orbiting 115 nautical miles above Earth while the Kliuchevskoi Volcano was spewing ash and dust into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. Not in any position to do anything about it, the astronauts aboard the space shuttle did the only thing they could do… they took pictures.
The two images you see here were taken from the space shuttle and show the global scale of the ash cloud released by Kliuchevskoi.
Dramatic Photos of Ocean Waves As Seen Through the Eyes of a Buddhist
Niigata-based photographer Syoin Kajii’s series Nami shows a fascinating amount of depth in what would seem a relatively simple subject: the ocean waves of Sado Island, in Japan. Kajii, who is a Buddhist monk, has managed to capture fantastic differences from one wave to another, with variations in color, texture, density, and tone, showing us that if one looks in a certain way, a massive variety exists right before us in the simplest things.
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
Anna Quindlen, Every Last One (via simply-quotes)
Luther Castante 