Nicaraguan guerrinna sister breast feeding her baby during the Contra War. Orlando Valenzuela’s photography captures the femininity of revolutionary Sandinista women so beautifully.
“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.” Leila Khaled
Three countries. One picture.
This is the junction of Iguazú and Paraná rivers, where three countries have their borders: Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.
Wonderful pictures of magnified Snowflakes…
Snowflakes can tell us a great deal about the structural organisation of water at an atomic level. Their fractal nature appears to fit the rules of plasma dynamics, which can be demonstrated at any scale.
Each and every snowflake is a completely unique little fractal, demonstrating imperfect, yet self-similar symmetry.
Even if you don’t care about the Science, they look mighty fine…
At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah’s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, was cut down by a U.S. Forest Service graduate student in 1964.) Today you can visit the grove where Methuselah hides, but you’ll have to guess at which tree it is. Could this one be it?
The world’s 10 oldest living treeslook at that tree. it looks ancient. it looks prehistoric, it looks unnatural. it’s a tribute to how things have changed but stayed the same. i’m really high.
Feb 20, 1962 — John Glenn climbs into his Mercury capsule named Friendship 7 at Cape Canaveral FL. He will circle the Earth three times, the first American to do so.
All of those early astronauts are my heroes (Gagarin, too). Those guys were BAD. ASS. to do what they did.
29 Black People Have Been Killed by Police/Security Since Jan 2012: 16 Since Trayvon
Twenty-eight Black People (27 Men and 1 Female) Killed by Police Officials, Security Guards, and Self-Appointed “Keepers of the Peace” between January 1, 2012 and March 31, 2012
life:
From The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)
I would have been obsessed with this book if I’d had it as a child.
“Routes for Musical Messages
The picture on the opposite page is a photograph of a pianist. On it have been sketched the two hemispheres of the brain, a network of nerves throughout the arms, and a connecting length of spinal cord. The system of billions of cells and miles of fibers can relay many messages at once…”
Just another Wednesday, informing our Tumblr followers about science.
Not Sure If Art
A second limited edition (of 50) screen print I did for the “Memes” show featuring over 100 artists at Gallery 1988, Melrose. Show opens tomorrow, Friday 4th 7-10PM and all of the work will appear on the website on Saturday. Best times.
