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Despair, Edvard Munch

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:32:21 -0500

Despair, Edvard Munch

josephloughborough: Edouard Larrosse

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:32:19 -0500

josephloughborough:

Edouard Larrosse

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vuls: nobuo sekine

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:44:20 -0500

vuls:

nobuo sekine

the-nyc-mind: AGORA GARDEN by Vincent Callebaut ARCHITECTURE A...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:55:11 -0500

the-nyc-mind:

AGORA GARDEN

by Vincent Callebaut

ARCHITECTURE

A plant-covered twisting tower shaped like a DNA strand by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is under construction in Taipei, Taiwan.

Described by Vincent Callebaut as “neither single tower, nor twin towers”, the 20-storey Agora Garden apartment block is designed with a double-helix structure that twists up around a fixed central core.

“Different from the modern city built of concrete, glass and steel, the Agora Garden tower appears in an urban centre as a green twisted mountain,” says the architect.

Balconies on each floor will be filled with plants, vegetable gardens and fruit trees, creating a cascading layer of greenery across the exterior. These will enable residents to grow their own food and compost all their biodegradable waste.

Between two and four apartments will be located on each floor of the building and will integrate a number of sustainable technologies, including rainwater-harvesting and solar energy.

“The concept is to build a true fragment of vertical landscape with low energetic consumption,” explains Callebaut. “The project represents a built ecosystem that repatriates the fauna and the flora in the heart of the city and generates a new box of subtropical biodiversity.”

Agora Garden is being constructed on one of the largest designated residential sites in the city and will be surrounded be a moat. As well as apartments, the building will also accommodate rooftop clubhouses, a swimming pool, gym facilities and car parking floors.

Vincent Callebaut won a competition to design the building in 2010 and construction is set to complete in 2016.

http://vincent.callebaut.org

the-nyc-mind: JAKE NELSON New York City Jake Nelson was born...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:47:30 -0500

Allen Ginsberg

"Guitar Man"

"Asbury Park"

"Bringing Myself Home"

"prayer"

the-nyc-mind:

JAKE NELSON

New York City

Jake Nelson was born and raised in Oregon and went to film school in Los Angeles. He moved to New York in pursuit of creative freedom and started bringing his stories to life in the form of oil on canvas. While working as a freelance storyboard artist for advertising, he built up a body of paintings and showed in several galleries including the Dorian Grey Gallery in the East Village. He explores the synthesis of music and visual art by performing live paintings on stage at venues all across NYC including 92Y Tribeca, Highline Ballroom and Bowery Electric. Combining his love of painting and film, he found the true innovator’s medium: animation. His collaboration with Cem Kurtulus – “The Hungry Boy” – has toured the world’s animation festivals. Jake currently works in visual effects for feature films and directs music videos on his nights and weekends.

http://jakenelsonart.com

the-nyc-mind: The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science This...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:46:14 -0500

the-nyc-mind:

The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science

This science facility in Melbourne by Australian firm Lyons has a tessellated facade based on the hexagonal geometry of a molecular structure.

http://www.lyonsarch.com.au

Photography By: http://www.diannasnape.com.au

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:38:21 -0500

Untitled By Ramin Hossaini

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:37:39 -0500

Untitled By Ramin Hossaini

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:37:14 -0500

futuresounds-overdrive: Pretty Lights // So Bright

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:34:46 -0500

futuresounds-overdrive:

Pretty Lights // So Bright

bauldoff: “We’ve found that baboons have diseases that other...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:28:33 -0500

bauldoff:

“We’ve found that baboons have diseases that other social mammals generally don’t have. If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.

“The reason baboons are such good models is, like us, they don’t have real stressors. If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don’t mess with you much. What that means is you’ve got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They’re just like us: They’re not getting done in by predators and famines, they’re getting done in by each other.”

—Robert Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist, and Stanford University professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery

From the article: Robert Sapolsky discusses physiological effects of stress

Watch Sapolsky’s wonderful lectures on depression or the uniqueness of humans.

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daga-deivis: EDM. Los mejores en la música Electronica

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:23:38 -0500

daga-deivis:

EDM. Los mejores en la música Electronica

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:18:56 -0500

mystic-revelations: (by Megan Brim)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:18:38 -0500

mystic-revelations:

(by Megan Brim)

"When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:46:52 -0500

“When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it.”

- Unknown

Truth

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