Cartography bitches
6 days ago on May 27, 2012 at 05:11pm
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (via the-star-stuff)
“Death has the features of Mozart’s face and is my waiting friend.” -Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
2 months ago on March 21, 2012 at 10:34am
Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
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1000scientists: A beautiful sunset time lapse by Tyler van der Hoeven
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Illustration of a lovely encounter between a crab and butterfly, by Paolo Giovo, the 15th century historian from Como. (Festina lente: Make haste slowly.)
This was brought to my attention by Italo Calvino in Six Memos for the New Millennium. It officially makes two lists at once.
1. The Tragos List of Emblems He Would Adopt If He Adopted Emblems
2. The Tragos List of Mottos He Would Adopt If He Adopted Mottos.
A beautiful telling of the never-realized film “Dune” by the recently deceased artist Moebius.
Before the 1974-1976 project went belly up, Jodorowsky’s production team for Dune was perhaps the most insane who’s who in film history. Moebius and H.R. Giger were brought on to do production designs, Alien writer Dan O’Bannon was in charge of special effects, Pink Floyd was slated to do the soundtrack, and the cast included Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, David Carradine, and Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo from Fantasy Island). Also, Dalí was to play the Emperor, for a fee of $100,000 an hour.
2 months ago on March 11, 2012 at 05:33pm
