The Great Comet of 1843
oil on canvas
Charles Piazzi Smyth
(via National Maritime Museum)
The “I”
Tanya Johnston
O. Winston Link’s Set-up for Night Photography (via RickRaven)
Myst (via Stephen Chapco)
bh: mole (bottom right, keyboard suspenders) was the best
Dusk, The Moon
Isaak Levitan
(via empas)
Results of the Olympus BioScapes competition were announced yesterday, and this image of the tail of a transgenic zebrafish, its sensory neurons labelled with brainbow, was in the top ten.
The Hawksbill Turtle (ca. 1922-1939).
Wes Anderson Week: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
My thoughts on the Tenenbaums: read the entire article at filmosophy:
“If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” - Ram Dass
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
by Karina Wolf
When Royal Tenenbaum is found out by his family – when they discover (not a spoiler) that in order to live with them, he’s only pretending to have stomach cancer (while eating cheeseburgers and scoffing Tic Tacs from medicine bottles) – he accepts his eviction and retreats to the 375th Street Y. There’s something about this hyperbolically placed men’s association which locates the exact artistic terrain of The Royal Tenenbaums.
The Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want
