Spatial Interest

forthememoryofepicurus: soulfreeisthewaytobe: how cool is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:00:30 +0100

forthememoryofepicurus:

soulfreeisthewaytobe:

how cool is this.

Just goes to show: COFFEE WILL FUCK YOU UP!!!!!

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:57 +0100

theoddmentemporium: The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:11 +0100

theoddmentemporium:

The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The style of the gardens is typical of the nineteenth century Gardenesque style, with areas of different character and in different design styles.

The gardens were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, and still form part of the family’s Heligan estate. The gardens were neglected after the First World War, and only restored in the 1990s, a restoration that was the subject of several popular television programmes and books.

The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called “The Jungle”. The gardens also have Europe’s only remaining pineapple pit, warmed by rotting manure, and two figures made from rocks and plants known as the Mud Maid and the Giant’s Head.

"You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:42 +0100

“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot.”

- Hillary Clinton (via frankengrrl)

archiemcphee: Less talk, more awesome tightrope-walking...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:17 +0100

archiemcphee:

Less talk, more awesome tightrope-walking gibbons!

Meet Siam the Lar Gibbon (also known as the White-handed Gibbon), one of the residents of the Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Siam prefers to cross this suspension bridge as though he were a tightrope walker. Who are we kidding? Watch this video and you’ll see that Siam clearly is a skilled tightrope walker.

Click here to learn more about Monkeyland.

[via Neatorama]

jonnymarg: oldbookillustrations: He breathed, and heaving...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:35 +0100

jonnymarg:

oldbookillustrations:

He breathed, and heaving himself up to the chains…

Jules Férat, from L’île mystérieuse (The mysterious island), by Jules Verne, Paris, 1870.

(Source: archive.org)

I’ve always wanted to read this.

headless-horse: Rising Dove - Harold E. Edgerton, 1934

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:01:15 +0100

headless-horse:

Rising Dove - Harold E. Edgerton, 1934

leonardian: LEONARDO DA VINCI( Reconstruction )After sketching...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:30:34 +0100

leonardian:

LEONARDO DA VINCI
( Reconstruction )

After sketching and painting him so many times, I thought it would be nice to take it one step further and try to reconstruct his face in sculpture, again using the various existing (self) portraits as reference.
Easier said than done. The whole process took two attempts (the first bust was unbalanced and unceremoniously face-planted the worktop) and 6 weeks from start to finish.

NOTE: I used one of Leonardo’s techniques on the drapery, and it worked a treat besides being probably the messiest thing I have ever done. It’s actual fabric soaked in very liquid casting plaster…

Dimensions and Materials:
45 cm (17.5 inches) | 10 kg (22 lbs)
Sculpey & SculptDry clays, plaster, granite reinforced base, wire armature.
Acrylic & Oil paints, Satin Gloss varnish.

"[TW: violence against women, discussion of sexual violence] Yet whether or not there is any..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:13:36 +0100

“[TW: violence against women, discussion of sexual violence]
Yet whether or not there is any empirical evidence that the pornography alone causes rape or violence, there remains the shocking difference between us: On any given day in the United States, there are men masturbating to images of women enduring sexual torture, genital mutilation, rape, and violence. Surely, this points to a dramatic difference between women’s and men’s sexualities-one can hardly imagine many women masturbating to reenactments of Lorena Bobbitt’s ministrations to her husband. Violence is rarely sexualized for women; that such images can be a routine and casual turn on for many men should at least give us pause.”

- Michael Kimmel, The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality (via wretchedoftheearth)

artdetails: Detail of the convex mirror in The Arnolfini...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:28:48 +0100

artdetails:

Detail of the convex mirror in The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:57:12 +0100

malformalady: A rare optic phenomenon, the “Brocken spectre,”...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:01:05 +0100

malformalady:

A rare optic phenomenon, the “Brocken spectre,” which occurs when a person stands at a higher altitude in the mountains and sees his shadow cast on a cloud at a lower altitude, Tatra Mountains,Poland. Via FB

Photo credit: Grzegorz Momot/European Pressphoto Agency

cthullhu: kateoplis: Huxley vs. Orwell

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:29:46 +0100

cthullhu:

kateoplis:

Huxley vs. Orwell

sovietbuildings: Lithuania, Kaunas, “Place of sorrow”

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:25:54 +0100

sovietbuildings:

Lithuania, Kaunas, “Place of sorrow”

fat-birds: Male Northern Flicker Woodpecker by Jason Paluck on...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:20:14 +0100

fat-birds:

Male Northern Flicker Woodpecker by Jason Paluck on Flickr.

I love the patterns on these little guys!

feathersandbeaks: Eastern Yellow Robin (by ianmichaelthomas)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:55 +0100

feathersandbeaks:

Eastern Yellow Robin

(by ianmichaelthomas)

blindfilmcritic: Lastest video… Are There Magic Tricks For...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:00:52 +0100

blindfilmcritic:

Lastest video… Are There Magic Tricks For Blind People?

tseecka: vrisexytwerkit: digg: Meet the man who is obsessed...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:11:19 +0100

tseecka:

vrisexytwerkit:

digg:

Meet the man who is obsessed with becoming a mermaid.

This man, he is the man I aspire to be.

I love that My Crazy Obsession is, like so many other TLC shows, a way for the masses to laugh and mock people who are different from the normal

and then there’s Tumblr, who lauds people like this man and aspire to be like him rather than mocking or hating

You guys are all right. <3

HERKYNA, (or Hercyna) was the Naiad Nymph of the stream Herkyna...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:00:48 +0100

HERKYNA, (or Hercyna) was the Naiad Nymph of the stream Herkyna near Lebadeia in Boiotia (central Greece). She was a childhood companion of Persephone, and a goddess of the chthonian shrine of Trophonios.

pollums: appolsaucy: good-idea-poorly-executed: lostwiginity: ...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:00:39 +0100

pollums:

appolsaucy:

good-idea-poorly-executed:

lostwiginity:

Interesting.

This is actually really interesting.

I love that he pointed out that it’s different when men and women are objectified on film, not only because of the way our society views men and women, but also in the specific way those shots are framed.

When consuming media it’s so important to remember that filmmakers and ad companies have so many tools at their disposal that the average viewer is not even aware of. The way a scene is set, the way the camera moves, which parts of a person are included in the fame, the number of seconds the camera views each particular part of a person. All of these things very subtly evoke responses from us. We don’t notice them because we aren’t supposed to notice them—if they are doing their job right, everything feels seamless and correct to the viewer. And even if we do notice, we may not be able to articulate it because most of us haven’t studied filmmaking techniques.

If you think you are 100% impenetrable to the effects of the content you view, you are deluding yourself.

excellent explanation of the Male Gaze, a must watch