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Eric Rondepierre   - Moires

Convulsion
R-3 sur aluminium, 71 x 100 cm
1996-98Image 6 of 12

thelittlesea:

Porpita porpita has a small disc like body and floats freely in the water column. Related to the jellyfish, this species measures just one inch in diameter. Image courtesy of Islands in the Sea 2002, NOAA/OER.

"In the last three or four decades, critics have begun to avoid judgments altogether, preferring to describe or evoke the art rather than say what they think of it. In 2002, a survey conducted by the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program found that judging art is the least popular goal among American art critics, and simply describing art is the most popular: it is an amazing reversal, as astonishing as if physicists had declared they would no longer try to understand the universe, but just appreciate it."

James Elkins, What Happened to Art Criticism? (2004)

as if physicists had declared they would no longer try to understand the universe, but just appreciate it.

Well…..

(via whileyouwereout)

I appreciate this message. Very much.

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"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via liquidnight)

How many moons does the earth have?

zmizet:

At least 7.

The moon we often see, called Luna by astronomers, is the only celestial body to observe a strict orbit of the earth. But there are now six other “Near-Earth” asteroids (NEAs) that do follow the earth around the sun, despite being invisible to the naked eye.

The first one identified was Cruithne (Cru-een-ya, named after Britain’s earliest recorded Celtic tribe) and it is a three-mile-wide satellite, discovered in 1997. It has a horseshoe-shaped obrit.

Six more have been named since then: 2000 PH 5’, 2000 WN 10’. 2002 AA 29’, 2003 YN 107’, and 2004 GU 9’.

Many astronomers argue that these are not really moons. But they are worth keeping an eye on since one day some or all of them may settle down into a regular orbital pattern.

- The Book of General Ignorance