Philosophy
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
The Hollow Men: What the end of the world looks like...
What the end of the world looks like...
The Hollow Men
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
by T. S. Eliot Written 1925
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
This incredibly lifelike hand puppet can even move its fingers and pick things up
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This incredibly lifelike hand puppet can even move its fingers and pick things up http://gizmo.do/YK8mRux
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This incredible time lapse of the high plains during the eclipse brought me to tears http://gizmo.do/HAeRg7e
How Skull Island built a bigger, better Kong http://gizmo.do/qY4h0qW
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Surreal Illustrations: The Darker Side Of Modern Society
Surreal Illustrations By This Artist Reveal The Darker Side Of Modern Society (15 images) http://buff.ly/2vbyRhM
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Georgia O'Keeffe At Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
'Happiness goes like the wind,
but what is interesting stays.'
Georgia O'Keeffe
By Arnold Newman
At Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Jaguar walked through Mexican park seized due to inadequate conditions
Mexico’s environmental protection agency seized a nearly full-grown jaguar that had been walked on a leash in a park in the city of Culiacan, considered the nation’s capital of drug trafficking.
The Associated Press
Published Thursday, August 3, 2017 2:11PM EDT
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's environmental protection agency seized a nearly
full-grown jaguar that had been walked on a leash in a park in the city
of Culiacan, considered the nation's capital of drug trafficking.
The agency said Wednesday that while the animal appeared healthy and had papers, it was being held in inadequate conditions -- a fenced area about the size of a small dog run.
Photos posted on social media showed a young woman walking the cat on a leash.
In June, photos circulated in Culiacan of a tiger being driven in a pickup truck. And in January, authorities found a tiger cub on the streets of a nearby city.
Mexican drug traffickers have been known to keep big cats, though there's no evidence the jaguar's owner had any criminal ties.
The agency said Wednesday that while the animal appeared healthy and had papers, it was being held in inadequate conditions -- a fenced area about the size of a small dog run.
Photos posted on social media showed a young woman walking the cat on a leash.
In June, photos circulated in Culiacan of a tiger being driven in a pickup truck. And in January, authorities found a tiger cub on the streets of a nearby city.
Mexican drug traffickers have been known to keep big cats, though there's no evidence the jaguar's owner had any criminal ties.
Link: http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Exotic Birds
Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill watercolor by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from
Rare Book Room. Photographer Diane Alexander White. © The Field Museum,
GN87875c.
A group of artists to see the Louis Agassiz Fuertes collection of exquisite paintings and illustrations from the 1926 Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition.
Requests have also included: viewing a handwritten catalog detailing the largest collection of Inca antiquities held outside Peru, and information about a map that’s been long-held in the family and cherished and was once produced by the Museum to accompany the Malvina Hoffman exhibition.
Disappointment coexists with possibility, and it is not one-sided. At times, we have to politely but firmly turn away hopeful inquiries from the public as well as researchers asking if the Museum not only documented, but also kept every possible item from the World’s Columbian Exposition (and beyond, but particularly the WCE). (No, the Museum did not have, nor ever did have, the following items, which are all actual requests for information and viewing: the first electric chair; a dress made entirely of glass; images and records of a freak show.) Conversely, Museum staff are sometimes disappointed when a lead on a possible donation goes cold, as in the recent case of an offer of lantern slides from the World’s Columbian Exposition that never materialized.
Ultimately, as Museum staff, our purpose is to continue to carry the torch of knowledge already extracted and exposed, while also forging ahead with new research and discovery. In this work, sometimes it feels like we commune with the dead, but more often than not we are turning over rocks that reveal nothing. As much as we’d like them to, and much as the public asks it of us, the photos and objects cannot talk back to us. And so, on Members’ Nights, as well as year round, we bring volumes from the climate controlled Rare Book Room or objects from the darkness within drawers, and lovingly place them on a book pillow or under a vitrine or out in the open for display, and begin the work of trying to extract and share meaning, context, and truth. Because, ultimately, these rare books, shells, insects, mammals, and photos of unknowable, beautiful strangers—they belong to us all. They tell the stories of our planet as well as our humanity—at times heroic and other times less so. And as staff, we’re here for a short time in a long line as their caretakers.
Gretchen Rings is a reference & interlibrary loan librarian.
Source: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/beautiful-strangers
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On #WorldNatureConservationDay, we need to tell good stories. For 3 years on Lewa, where this image was taken, no rhinos have been poached.
This #bear is actually belly-flopping to stun the #salmon while hunting as the rapids move him down the river. #AlaskaLive #livetv
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
New York Landmarks
These Images of New York Landmarks Capture the ‘Secret Lives of Buildings’ (9 photos) http://buff.ly/2tvnMdr
Takashi Murakami Revolutionized Pop Culture
WATCH: Takashi Murakami on his art, inspirations, and more. https://mcachicago.org/Stories/Video/Takashi-Murakami …
Takashi Murakami, Photo: Maria Ponce Berre
Takashi Murakami Revolutionized Pop Culture
Source: https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/5-ways-takashi-murakami-revolutionized-pop-culture-art
Monday, July 10, 2017
Fainting Goat or Myotonic goats
Fainting goats are slightly smaller than your average goat breeds. Generally they are 43-64cm tall and can weigh from 27 to 79kg. The males, or bucks, as they are known as can be as heavy as 91kg.
Each October, fainting goats are honoured at the “Goats Music and More Festival” which is in Marshall County, Tennessee.
Each October, fainting goats are honoured at the “Goats Music and More Festival” which is in Marshall County, Tennessee.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
The African clawed frog
The variegated grasshopper. (Photo: Nick Hobgood)
Sequel to Life of Pi
Saturday, June 24, 2017
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