31 12 / 2012
Caddis fly larvae protect their developing bodies by building themselves sheaths of silk and incorporating substances found in their habitats. Artist Hubert Duprate placed a group of Caddis fly larvae into a tank with gold and other precious substances for the larvae to spin into their sheaths.
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07 10 / 2012
All palaces are temporary palaces - Quote and design by Robert Montgomery
An installation from poetry-in-lights artist Robert Montgomery at the former swimming pool in Stattbad Wedding in Berlin — part of the Echoes of Voices series that will soon be turned into a book with funds raised on Kickstarter. Related: this is also where they will hold the publication’s launch party.
(Source: kickstarter)
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03 10 / 2012
"There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing."
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07 2 / 2012
“the individual human cannot be adequately understood solely as an autonomous, self-expressing, self-reflecting entity, but must be seen as a node on an immensely complex network of economic, cultural, historical, and technological forces.”
Richard Powers
