culturenlifestyle:

Handcrafted Fairytale Book Covers by Mandarin Duck

Jewelry designer Aniko Kolesnikova, best known as Mandarin Duck is recognized for her whimsical, sophisticated, ornate work featuring mystical and exotic creatures, such as owls and dragons, as well as other natural elements like floral aesthetics. An expert at working with polymer clay, Kolesnikova’s YouTube channel, Mandarin Duck was created for the purpose to teach people how to make beautiful handmade things. 

Now, also a book sculptor, Kolesnikova wishes to teach people how to construct their own handmade journals, which resemble imaginative covers and creatures from a fairytale. 

You can find more of her creations on her Etsy shop.

roachpatrol:

antikythera-astronomy:

Sunset on Mars

hell yes hell yes hell fucking yes

efdol:

Kul Sharif Mosque, Russia

the-evidence-of-winter:

Favourite Animated Shows → Live Action: [1/3] Avatar the Last Airbender 

AKA what the film could have been if it was made by someone who actually gave a shit about the source material 

jediofcolor:

10 minute difference

marcelineintheskywithdiamonds:

Some Ghibli’s sceneries. How could they be more astonishing? *-*

chandelyer:

fashion encyclopedia: Basil Soda spring 2015 couture

johnsflorence:

^Cr.

iamatinyowl:

No one actually thinks all men.

Just too many men.

Just enough men to be afraid.
Just enough men that all women have experienced it.
Just enough to make it a social problem not a personal one.

sixpenceee:

Nine Facts about Black Holes

1. The gravitational pull of a black hole can greatly slow down time itself, according to relativity. If you could take a spaceship to a black hole, orbit around it for awhile, and then fly back to Earth, you would have successfully traveled to the future. 

2. Some equations suggest that every black hole contains a universe — which would mean our universe is inside a black hole right now.

3. While black holes are most definitely real, they have theoretical opposites called white holes, which would endlessly spew matter into the universe. They were thought to be purely hypothetical, but an unusual gamma ray burst observed in 2006 is turning out to be a potential candidate for a real-life white hole.

4. Supermassive black holes likely exist at the centers of most galaxies. And since galaxies sometimes collide, that means black holes do too, and when that happens, it’s thought that one black hole ‘kicks’ the other out of the galaxy.

5. Black holes are black because their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. But they do emit radiation, usually called Hawking Radiation, after Stephen Hawking, who first theorized its existence.

6. The Milky Way has a supermassive black hole in its center, and it seems to have exploded about 2 million years ago in an event known as a Seyfert flare. The radiation from the black hole would have been 100 million times more powerful than it is now; the explosion may have even been visible from Earth.

7. Black holes can emit material at nearly the speed of light. Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of scientists looked at a galaxy 1.5 billion light-years from Earth and found a black hole doing just that. The jet is so powerful that it’s blowing gas right out of the galaxy.

8. Black holes are the densest objects in existence. If you made a black hole with the mass of the entire Earth, the black hole would be 9 millimeters across.

9. Black holes can form when stars collapse in on themselves after death. They keep growing by eating the dust and gas around them. No one’s really sure how the biggest ones, called supermassive black holes, are born.

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crushis:

“We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me. The real terrorism is this occupation.” Mike prysner - US soldier fought in Iraq 2003.

“قالوا لنا أننا جئنا لنحارب الإرهاب، الإرهابي الحقيقي هو أنا والإرهاب الحقيقي هو هذا الإحتلال” مايك برسنر - جندي أمريكي قاتل أثناء الإحتلال الأمريكي للعراق 2003.

crossconnectmag:

Floating Worlds by Catherine Nelson

Catherine Nelson  born in Sydney 1970 is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to paint images together into personal and imaginary landscapes. Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicates her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium. Drawing upon hundreds of nature photographs, Nelson digitally stitches together each element in a process that takes months to complete.
She now combines technique and experience to create these unique and imaginative landscapes, each one becoming its own detailed microcosm.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home - run with us.

posted by Margaret