Red Door Gallery - Mount Shasta, California

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:03:55 -0700

abluegirl: Living Wall These vegetated surfaces don’t just...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:29:06 -0700

Living Wall

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

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german-expressionists: Egon Schiele, Portrait of Heinrich...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:26:30 -0700

german-expressionists:

Egon Schiele, Portrait of Heinrich Benesch, 1917

houkgallery: Elliott Erwitt (American, b. France, 1928)Wyoming,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:04 -0700

houkgallery:

Elliott Erwitt (American, b. France, 1928)
Wyoming, 1954
© Elliott Erwitt/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

esdedecoracion: Casa de piedra en Portugal want

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:34:35 -0700

esdedecoracion:

Casa de piedra en Portugal

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it was a good time while it lasted……..

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:33:13 -0700

it was a good time while it lasted……..

explore-blog: The typewriters of famous authors. Pair with the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:06:37 -0700

explore-blog:

The typewriters of famous authors. Pair with the pets of famous authors.

……….looking at these babies, basic machine tools, the so unimportant debate amongst photographers about film vs digital, my camera vs your camera…………comes to mind…….and memories of severe wrist pain.

The tools just never do much at all without the creative operator behind them, don’t they!?

"You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:20:18 -0700

“You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

- Dorothea Lange (1978)

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:19 -0700

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

- Hermann Hesse (via arsarteetlabore)

nevver: Film canisters print ahhh the sweet smell of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:58:28 -0700

nevver:

Film canisters print

ahhh the sweet smell of fixer……..

"My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have ever had."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:09:27 -0700

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have ever had.”

- Søren Kierkegaard (via loveage-moondream)

pbsarts: softpyramid: Andy EllisonMRI of Corn whoa

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:56:15 -0700

pbsarts:

softpyramid:

Andy Ellison
MRI of Corn

whoa

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:20 -0700

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medusaspajamas:

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:21:41 -0700

medusaspajamas:

workman: totalimmortalbeloved: Flower No.1 - Chrysanthenum. by...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:18:05 -0700

workman:

totalimmortalbeloved:

Flower No.1 - Chrysanthenum. by Huang Xu. 120 cm x 120 cm / 59” x 59” Edition 6. 2011. Type C Photograph felixinclusis

inneroptics: Edvard Munch-Day After, 1894

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:51:17 -0700

inneroptics:

Edvard Munch-Day After, 1894

John Singer Sargent - Madame Gautreau, 1883

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:50:26 -0700

John Singer Sargent - Madame Gautreau, 1883

emptyblueprints: “Perhaps Culture Is Now The...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:37:29 -0700

emptyblueprints:

“Perhaps Culture Is Now The Counterculture”

The New Republic | By Leon Wieseltier | May 28, 2013

Owing to its preference for totalistic explanation, scientism transforms science into an ideology, which is of course a betrayal of the experimental and empirical spirit. There is no perplexity of human emotion or human behavior that these days is not accounted for genetically or in the cocksure terms of evolutionary biology. It is true that the selfish gene has lately been replaced by the altruistic gene, which is lovelier, but it is still the gene that tyrannically rules. Liberal scientism should be no more philosophically attractive to us than conservative scientism, insofar as it, too, arrogantly reduces all the realms that we inhabit to a single realm, and tempts us into the belief that the epistemological eschaton has finally arrived, and at last we know what we need to know to manipulate human affairs wisely. This belief is invariably false and occasionally disastrous. We are becoming ignorant of ignorance.
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[T]here is no task more urgent in American intellectual life at this hour than to offer some resistance to the twin imperialisms of science and technology, and to recover the old distinction — once bitterly contested, then generally accepted, now almost completely forgotten – between the study of nature and the study of man. As Bernard Williams once remarked, “’humanity’ is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.” You who have elected to devote yourselves to the study of literature and languages and art and music and philosophy and religion and history — you are the stewards of that quality. You are the resistance. You have had the effrontery to choose interpretation over calculation, and to recognize that calculation cannot provide an accurate picture, or a profound picture, or a whole picture, of self-interpreting beings such as ourselves; and I commend you for it.
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So keep your heads. Do not waver. Be very proud. Use the new technologies for the old purposes. Do not be rattled by numbers, which will never be the springs of wisdom. In upholding the humanities, you uphold the honor of a civilization that was founded upon the quest for the true and the good and the beautiful. For as long as we are thinking and feeling creatures, creatures who love and imagine and suffer and die, the humanities will never be dispensable. From this day forward, then, act as if you are indispensable to your society, because – whether it knows it or not – you are.

Excerpts from Wieseltier’s commencement speech at Brandeis University.
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arpeggia: Matthew Pillsbury - Museum Hours, 2004-2010 Click on...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:35:59 -0700

La Victoire de Samothrace, Musée du Louvre, 2008

La Venus de Milo (backside), Musée du Louvre, 2010

La Joconde – Salle des Etats, Musée du Louvre, 2008

L’esclave Rebel, Musée du Louvre, 2010

Reflection in busts of Victor Hugo, Musee Rodin, Paris, 2008

Les Esclaves de Michel Ange, Musée du Louvre, 2010

La Victoire de Samothrace, Musée du Louvre, 2008

Reflection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007

arpeggia:

Matthew Pillsbury - Museum Hours, 2004-2010

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3wings: Beech Wood 1936Albert Renger-Patzsch

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:38:29 -0700

3wings:

Beech Wood 1936
Albert Renger-Patzsch