Light Forms Grey Forms Dark Forms is a series of amorphous self-portraits made in twilight landscapes of urban forests.
The mysterious black and white images focus on photographer’s own body, nearly unidentifiable as a human figure between the woods.
Started as a reflection on mystical facets of nature in city areas, the project gradually grew into precise ritual with its own myth of unnoticed semi-dark life.
“Some anthropologists of infrastructure have critically reexamined Star’s claim that infrastructure becomes ‘visible upon breakdown’. Their key observation is that infrastructure can take on different meanings and thus different visibilities for different people, at different times, and in different places. For example, a large-scale piece of infrastructure may be treated as a monument. Or the act of breaking ground for a new highway or launching a satellite may be defined as a national project. Meanwhile, a regional information hub can be the target of terrorism, and a waste-disposal facility can be seen as a nuisance to comfortable community life. To put it simply, infrastructure is not always infrastructure only in a material sense: it can have many other symbolic or imaginative capacities.”
“Art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century tends to be always distracted, never favouring any topic for very long anyway, with the notable exception of an introspective obsession with art itself”
Marble quarriers are visible in Carrara, Italy. The blue-grey marble that is extracted here is widely used in sculpture like Michelangelo’s David and in building decor like The Pantheon. With more than 650 active or abandoned quarry sites, more marble has been extracted here than any other place on earth.
The entrance to Overlook Mountain House lurks in the fog, welcoming hikers on Overlook Mountain. Towering 3,140 feet above Woodstock, the hotel was abandoned after suffering several fires. It is now owned by New York State. Found and photographed by @todseelie. #overlookmountainhouse #overlookmountain #abandoned #ruins #fog #atlasobscura #hidden #curiousity #explore #adventure #amazing #wanderlust #neverstopexploring #photooftheday #picoftheday #travel #wonder #urbex by atlasobscura (via https://www.instagram.com/p/BCqwe4Rqfac/)
In the race to replace concrete and steel, bioengineers and architects are experimenting with alternatives including blood, bone and eggshells 02.30 EST Last modified on Tuesday 8 March 2016 05.
The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person’s decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, and future as “chronesthesia,” or mental time travel, although little is known about which parts of the brain are responsible for these conscious experiences. In a new study, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates of mental time travel and better understand the nature of the mental time in which the metaphorical “travel” occurs.
cyanometer, c. 1789, an instrument that measures the blueness of a sky
“But how to measure ‘blueness’? Using suspensions of Prussian blue, Saussure dyed paper squares every shade of blue he could distinguish between white and black. These were assembled into a numbered colour circle that could be held up to the zenith at a standard distance from the eye - the matching square established the degree of blue.“
“Last night, she might have wondered what undergrounds apart from the couple she knew of communicated by WASTE system. By sunrise she could legitimately ask what undergrounds didn’t. If miracles were, as Jesus Arrabal had postulated years ago on the beach at Mazatlan, intrusions into this world from another, a kiss of cosmic pool balls, then so must be each of the night’s post horns. For here were God knew how many citizens, deliberately choosing not to communicate by U. S. Mail. It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, un-publicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.”
