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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:15:06 +0000

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woodendreams: (by Roaming the World)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:05:55 +0000

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(by Roaming the World)

ruineshumaines: Broken Hands (by Lissy Elle)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:05:15 +0000

ruineshumaines:

Broken Hands (by Lissy Elle)

nationalpostsports: At least 50 people were killed after a...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000

nationalpostsports:

At least 50 people were killed after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, health ministry sources said, raising the official estimate of the death count from 25.

It was one of the worst incidents of sports violence in Egypt in decades.

A security official and a medic said fans of the home team, Al-Masry, swarmed the field after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt’s top team. They threw stones, fireworks, and bottles at the fans and injured some players.

nationalpost: NASA’s Kepler telescope finds 26 new...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:37 +0000

nationalpost:

NASA’s Kepler telescope finds 26 new planets
Kepler, NASA’s planet-hunting space telescope, has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.

The discoveries boost the list of confirmed planets outside the Earth’s solar system to 729, including 60 found by the Kepler team. The telescope, launched in space in March 2009, can detect slight but regular dips in the amount of light coming from stars. Scientists can then determine if the changes are caused by orbiting planets passing by, relative to Kepler’s view.

Kepler scientists have another 2,300 candidate planets awaiting additional confirmation. (Photos/illustrations by NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech; University of Toulouse; Reuters/AFP/Getty Images)

expose-the-light: Earth’s First 1. First Full-View Photo of...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:16:59 +0000

expose-the-light:

Earth’s First

1. First Full-View Photo of Earth

Photograph courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center

This famous “Blue Marble” shot represents the first photograph in which Earth is in full view. The picture was taken on December 7, 1972, as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth’s orbit for the moon. With the sun at their backs, the crew had a perfectly lit view of the blue planet.

2. New Blue Marble

Image courtesy Norman Kuring, Suomi NPP/NASA/NOAA

North and Central America star in a new “blue marble” picture of Earth. The high-resolution composite was made with data collected January 4 by a NASA satellite.

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, or NPP, launched on October 28, 2011, to become NASA’s next-generation Earth-monitoring probe. The satellite was designed to help improve short-term weather forecasts and increase our understanding of long-term climate change.

The 2012 blue marble was released this week to mark the announcement of the probe’s new name—Suomi NPP—in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin, a pioneer in satellite meteorology.

oldrags: Costumes worn to the Romanov Anniversary Ball in...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:15:09 +0000

Elena Konstantinovna Kochubey

Countess Alexandera Illarionovna

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Timashev

Aleksandr Mihailovich

Aleksei Aleksandrovich

Anna Sergeievna Istomiva

Konstantin Aleksandrovich Gorchakov

Elizaveta Nikolaievna Obolensky

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna

Baron Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf

oldrags:

Costumes worn to the Romanov Anniversary Ball in 1903. The theme of the lavish masked ball was the reign of Alexei of Russia, second ruler of the Romanov dynasty (1645-1676). Some guests went so far as to actually wear original costumes from the period that were being stored at the Kremlin.

Click thumbnails for identification.

honeyspider: WOMEN OF HISTORY | SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA (1532 –...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:08:52 +0000

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WOMEN OF HISTORY | SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA (1532 – November 16, 1625) (Charlotte Gainsbourg)

Born in Lombardy, Sofonisba was the oldest of seven children (six of them girls) born a family of minor nobility. Sofonisba’s father encouraged all of his daughters to perfect their talents and it was probably because of this encouragement that four of them would go on to become painters, but Sofonisba was by far the most accomplished.

At fourteen she was apprenticed to a respected portrait artist and this set a local precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. After this she went to Rome and was informally trained by Michelangelo, who recognised her talent the first time he saw her sketches.

At twenty-seven Sofonisba was invited to go to Spain to serve as court painter, lady-in-waiting, and art tutor to the queen. Even after the queen’s death, Sofonisba remained a favourite of the royal court and lived on a pension from the king that allowed her to paint freely and teach younger artists herself. Later in life she began to lose her sight and became instead a patron of the arts before passing away at ninty-three, an artist internationally acclaimed and respected for her entire life. Her great success opened the way for many of the female artists who would come after her.

"Hurling food isn’t just an American thing, either. The Greeks have been known to launch yogurt at..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:06:03 +0000

“Hurling food isn’t just an American thing, either. The Greeks have been known to launch yogurt at figures they don’t like – an activity called yaourtoma, or yogurting. Last year in Athens, protesters threw yogurt at police trying to break up a rowdy rally outside of parliament.”

- Here’s A Pie In Your Eye: A Brief History Of Food Fights (via npr)

nationalpost: 12th death linked to tainted ecstasy in B.C. and...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:05:10 +0000

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12th death linked to tainted ecstasy in B.C. and Alberta
Tests have linked another Calgary-area death to ecstasy made with a toxic additive, the 12th such death in Western Canada since late last year.

It’s believed the latest test results indicate the death of a 23-year-old student Cody Gorlick at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology residence on Jan. 21 is the latest involving ecstasy made with paramethoxymethamphetamine.

Seven people in Calgary and at least five others in British Columbia have died with the toxic chemical in their system. Officials believe ecstasy pills are being laced with paramethoxymethamphetamine (PMMA), a substance five times more toxic than ordinary ecstasy, or MDMA.

“The risk is outrageous — it’s so high for death and injury,” said EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a regular user of recreational drugs or a first-time user, what has been occurring is that one dose can be fatal. It’s a total roll of the dice.”

ruineshumaines: #157 A Trip to Earth by Matthieu Barrère

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:14:16 +0000

ruineshumaines:

#157 A Trip to Earth by Matthieu Barrère

ruineshumaines: Extravaganza - Prediction = True (by Pilottage)...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:14:07 +0000

ruineshumaines:

Extravaganza - Prediction = True (by Pilottage)

ruineshumaines: Using trash bags, unused grocery bags and...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:32 +0000

ruineshumaines:

Using trash bags, unused grocery bags and plastic sheets, Pakistani artist Khalil Chishtee creates life-sized figures racked with emotion. He uses these materials as a metaphor for “recycling our identities” or braving the problems of life.

“For the first time I have used trash or recycled bags as my medium because no matter how many times I recycle plastic, it will remain plastic only, it will not change, so why do we change after being replaced?,” he says. “We change names, religion, language and even emotions. Why can’t we also remain ‘human beings’ that we essentially are?”

Look through his various works and you’ll feel a sense of sadness wash over you. His torn, withering figures appear hopeless, as if they’re struggling, trying to cope with the insurmountable problems of everyday life.

(khalil chishtee.com)

ruineshumaines: It’s not often that we see an image from this...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:02:14 +0000

ruineshumaines:

It’s not often that we see an image from this nauseating perspective. Viewed from above, we experience two scenes in the same frame. One features a woman sleeping in a messy, top-floor room, while the other shows a busy, lit-up street many floors below.

The scene is actually from the film Enter the Void. The contrast created by the different heights and colors makes for a completely captivating shot!

via [Reddit]

ruineshumaines: “This is a house made entirely of antique...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:52:54 +0000

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“This is a house made entirely of antique books, mostly English literature published in the United Kingdom. Spines out, pages in, the work is a library turned in on itself, a space of infinite possibility where nothing may be read yet everything imagined. The work has no windows and in the absence of external stimulation, we must imagine the worlds of the books, and hear the voice in our head that talks to us when we read. Books, the stories they tell about the opportunity they offer for escape into other worlds, are a key inspiration for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.” (by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller)

ruineshumaines: Harp Seal Pup (by sofocles)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:47:35 +0000

ruineshumaines:

Harp Seal Pup (by sofocles)

"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:47:27 +0000

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us. It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”

- Kazuo Ishiguro. (via ruineshumaines)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:45:34 +0000

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© Alexander Semenov

ruineshumaines: There’s a Batman and a Catwoman so why...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:44:34 +0000

ruineshumaines:

There’s a Batman and a Catwoman so why shouldn’t there by a Lady Bug? Hungarian artist Fulop Gabor has taken the word “ladybug” quite literally in this amazing sculpture. Calling his interpretation Lady Bug, this standing yellow and red figure is covered in a swarm of those tiny insects which you can only see and fully realize in the up-close shots. (by Fulop Gabor)

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:01:33 +0000

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today.”

- Lawrence Krauss (via ruineshumaines)