the sleeping dream

pappubahry: Saturn’s moon Prometheus and the F Ring,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:34:34 +0200

Saturn’s moon Prometheus and the F Ring, photographed by Cassini, 29 October 2008.

stellar-indulgence: What’s that behind Titan? It’s another of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:28:33 +0200

What’s that behind Titan? It’s another of Saturn’s moons: Tethys. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn captured the heavily cratered Tethys slipping behind Saturn’s atmosphere-shrouded Titan. The largest crater on Tethys, Odysseus, is easily visible on the distant moon. Titan shows not only its thick and opaque orange lower atmosphere, but also an unusual upper layer of blue-tinted haze. Tethys, at about 2 million kilometers distant, was twice as far from Cassini as was Titan when the above image was taken. In 2004, Cassini released the Hyugens probe which landed on Titan and provided humanity’s first views of the surface of the Solar System’s only known lake-bearing moon.

Credit: APOD

Young Galaxy - Fall For You (Official Music...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:05:55 +0200

Young Galaxy - Fall For You (Official Music Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTPjDpjSRqE

alyslala: Light as a Feather (by Peter Hodgson)

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:06:26 +0200

alyslala:

Light as a Feather (by Peter Hodgson)

dontrblgme: rampa (via mluisa_)

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:05:58 +0200

dontrblgme:

rampa (via mluisa_)

yama-bato: Talia ChetritGradient Tool 3/8, 2008silver gelatin...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:04:15 +0200

yama-bato:

Talia Chetrit
Gradient Tool 3/8, 2008
silver gelatin contact print
8 x 10 inches
edition of 4 + 1 AP

via

fiore-rosso: jeff van den houte | angles.

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:03:16 +0200

fiore-rosso:

jeff van den houte | angles.

theshinyboogie: Wind tunnel construction, Ft. Peck, Montana,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:59:25 +0200

theshinyboogie:

Wind tunnel construction, Ft. Peck, Montana, 1936

Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, from March 1997 Smithsonian

Photo

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:58:17 +0200

thegiftsoflife: Silk Robe by Johanna Harmon

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:55:59 +0200

thegiftsoflife:

Silk Robe by Johanna Harmon

carolwangthephotographer: 2012年11月10日 @老场坊1933

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:55:02 +0200

carolwangthephotographer:

2012年11月10日 @老场坊1933

Photo

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:54:27 +0200

From the album ‘The Mande Variations’ on World...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:27:06 +0200

From the album ‘The Mande Variations’ on World Circuit Records.

Now in the wake of the Grammy-winning In the Heart of the Moon with Ali Farka Touré and the hard-swinging Boulevard de l’Indépendance with the Symmetric Orchestra, Toumani releases what is probably his most personal album to date. Recorded unaccompanied and entirely without overdubs, ‘The Mandé Variations’ is an African classical album that rocks and swings, that has learnt from Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, yet remains entirely true to the kora player’s Mandé griot tradition.

If Diabaté’s first solo album, 1987’s Kaira, set the gold standard for modern kora playing, The Mandé Variations moves the story a giant leap forward. While Kaira charmed with its youthful melodic sparkle, the new recording is a moodier, more reflective and altogether more mature work. Meditative, at moments even somber, The Mandé Variations is infused too with a sense of wonder and rapture, expressed through Diabate’s blend of peerless lyricism and mercurial virtuosity.

Available on Amazon.
Visit World Circuit Records or go to Toumani’s Facebook page for more info.

Matteo Angelotti.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:59:38 +0200

Matteo Angelotti.

likeafieldmouse: Jurgen Albrecht - Orte (2011) - Softly...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:46:31 +0200

likeafieldmouse:

Jurgen Albrecht - Orte (2011) - Softly colored, minimalist “light rooms” within rectangles cut into darkened gallery walls

stilllifequickheart: Albert Anker Tea Service 19th century

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:43 +0200

stilllifequickheart:

Albert Anker

Tea Service

19th century

burnedshoes: PHOTOBOOK: VOLKSWAGEN - A WEEK AT THE FACTORY...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:14:37 +0200

chrome bumpers

Chrome bumpers with holes for bumper extensions in galvanizing shop in assembly hall 3

Front Fenders

Rear fenders on transport trolley, 1953

Rear Fenders

Rear Fenders

Rear Fenders

Rear Fenders

Rear Fenders

burnedshoes:

PHOTOBOOK: VOLKSWAGEN - A WEEK AT THE FACTORY (1953)
by Peter Keetman | Part 3 of 5 : ‘Fenders & Bumpers’

Trivia: These beautiful detailed studies of car parts and many other photos of Keetman’s week in Wolfsburg were rejected by Volkswagen publicists for being to abstract.

The German Economic Miracle, in which the German economy rose from the ashes of WWII, was in full bloom in 1953. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer became Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. Volkswagen had just completed its first year of producing over 100,000 Beetles. By 1965, they would be routinely manufacturing over one million annually.

The Beetle itself still retained the WWII-era 1.1-litre engine, and just a few weeks prior to Peter’s visit, received its most dramatic aesthetic change since its inception. In March of ’53 the original split rear-window was replaced by a one-piece oval window that would remain a hallmark of the Beetle for the following four and one-half years. (+)

» continue to pt. 4

Find the other 4 parts of this story here.

Zhangye Danxia the in Gansu Province in...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:57:59 +0200

Zhangye Danxia the in Gansu Province in China

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/la-zhangye-danxia-dans-la-province-de-gansu-en-chine/

Ringside with Rhea http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130329.html

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:56:12 +0200

Ringside with Rhea

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130329.html

The first telecommunications satellite...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:53:00 +0200

The first telecommunications satellite passive

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/photo-mystere-6/