‘Rio de Janeiro’
‘Tokyo’
‘Shanghai’
‘Hong Kong’
‘New York’
‘San Francisco’
‘Paris’
’São Paulo’
‘Los Angeles’”Cohen’s method is original and precise and harkens back to the methodologies employed by early 19th century photographers like Gustave Le Grey. He photographs the world’s major cities, seeking out views that resonate for him and noting the precise time, angle, and latitude and longitude of his exposure. As the world rotates around its axis the stars that would have been visible above a particular city move to deserts, plains, and other places free of light pollution. By noting the precise latitude and angle of his cityscape, Cohen is able to track the earth’s rotation to places of atmospheric clarity like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama desert. There he sets up his camera to record what is lost to modern urban dwellers.” - Danziger Gallery
‘Darkened Cities’ by Thierry Cohen
(Via Beautiful Decay)
Helveticat | From Etsy, letterpressed by hand in Brooklyn, NY
THIS.
ALL OF THIS.
this means so much more coming directly from Commander Hadfield himself…
i find the final quote so convicting for this generation: we try so desperately to avoid adulthood forever, when really it will come anyway. and in the absence of preparation for it, one indeed finds that he has become that which he never wanted to be.
I miss this city.
Giuseppe Sanmartino - Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ)
Cappella Sansevero, Naples
Chinese Families Photographed With Everything They Own
Chinese photographer Huang Qingjun has spent nearly 10 years travelling to remote areas in China to convince people to have their picture taken along with all of their possessions. At first glance it’s striking how little they own but as you look closer at each image you’ll discover items that might be unexpected.
Image description: Earth, as seen in the sky above Mars. This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on March 8, 2004.
Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M.
wow
Twin Cats Always Mirror Each Other in Sleep
Scientists are baffled by twin cats, Merry and Pippin, who reportedly always sleep in an exact mirror image of one another.
“Even if we place them in disparate starting positions or in separate rooms, they somehow always wind up sleeping exactly like the other,” said leading cat biologist and feline sleep expert Dr. Tobias Winslow. ”I’ve never seen anything like it.”
A polysomnogram revealed nothing out of the ordinary about the cats’ brain functions, eye movements, muscle activity, breathing or heart rhythms. ”We had expected to find that Merry and Pip were synched up on an internal level,” explained Winslow, “but it is literally just in the way they position their bodies for slumber.”
More tests will be done later this month during a scheduled comprehensive sleep study.
SUBMISSION: Architecture Student Survival Kit.
Not shown: Fifteen kilometres of trace, four dozen impossibly small sketchbooks and an inhumane amount of dedication.
