Andrew Wyeth.

Winter.

1946.

This is the first painting Wyeth made after the death of his father, the illustrator N. C. Wyeth, in a car accident just over this same hill.

Herbert Bayer
Floor plan for the exhibition "Bauhaus 1919-1928," 1939

What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? | Quanta Magazine The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life.

This is some mind-blowing science here: the engine propelling bacteria - a complex structure made of molecules, powered by protons:
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This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

“There are hints of Orwell’s 1984 in this sort of manipulation of language, manipulation of the truth… The whole thing reads like a scenario for, on the 1 hand, a sort of new movie, & also a new blueprint for a kind of militaristic religion…”

JG Ballard, 3/11/03

We miss you Jim x

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

DONATE to Support Your Arts Community Steamroller Group, River Union Stage, & Hunterdon Art Museum are collaborating on a dynamic new project called Uncharted Territories, uniting poetry, printmaking and book arts, culminating in a se...

I know things are tight all around, but if any of you have a little to share to help fund this fascinating project uniting poets & printmakers, UNCHARTED TERRITORIES, it would be very welcome indeed

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2/2 The eyes. Looking right at you.

🖤 and yes, I've thought about "Kingdom Come" often in recent times, flags everywhere. As Toby Litt says, revising his previous opinion of KC:
"...as he’d so often been before, Ballard was embarrassingly, terrifyingly on the money. He never disdained the obvious and so always discerned the imminent.”

This is how octopuses actually throw things [🙏🏻]

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

Even discounting the surface-level sheen of its more propagandistic presentations, the progress of man’s ascent into space is still a jaw-dropping endeavour to consider. In 1958, the longest commercial flight on Earth was Honolulu to Los Angeles (6 hours, 21 minutes). Eleven years later, a man would land on the moon. Between July 1969 and December 1972, 12 humans stood on our nearest cosmic neighbour. And then, well, none have done it since. It’s a strange fact, rarely dwelt on, that every single moonwalk was done not just five decades ago, but within a single 41-month period. To put that into context, it’s currently just over 41 months since Liz Truss lost her brave battle against a lettuce.

I’ve always considered the purported choice, between advancing to the stars and solving problems back on earth, a false one. Obviously, if the only two options were solving world hunger and funding, say, the International Space Station, the choice would be clear. But such a binary is nonsensical, given that there are scores of other things I’d rather sacrifice before targeting the planet’s vanguard of scientific inquiry. I suspect the reason this dichotomy comes up so often is that the numbers involved in space exploration are, inarguably, massive (I am resisting every urge in my body to use the word “astronomical” here). Artemis’s purported budget of $93 billion may seem hard to justify for a programme whose output appears, in layman’s terms, to be a few rocket launches and some admittedly charming zero gravity footage of bulky astronauts surrounded by floating pens.

But this elides the truth that massively subsidised space programmes provide a titanic boost to science, technology, and economies back home. It’s widely reported that Nasa’s Apollo-era programmes returned around $7 to the US economy for every $1 spent. Developments made at the bleeding edge of the space race were obviously a boon to high-tech industries we will never fathom, but they’re also visible in all our homes. If you’ve ever used a portable computer, a camera phone, or a memory foam mattress, you have Nasa to thank. Ditto modern advancements in water purification, landmine removal, and artificial limbs, not to mention the invention of ear thermometers and CAT scans. If I were to rank all the things I’d prefer the American government spent billions on subsidising, these would not find themselves particularly close to the bottom of the pile. To place this in bleak contrast, Trump’s war with Iran is reportedly costing $1.3 million per minute.

Moreover, such arguments mean engaging with this question in purely vulgar terms, to deploy a miser’s algebra in assessing points on a balance sheet, and the returns on investment they imply. At the risk of losing my reputation as a dead-eyed cynic whose heart has been calloused by the evils of the world, I do hold within myself an optimism about space travel that supersedes matters of cost and capital. I think there is value – moral, philosophical, intellectual value – in exploring the one universe in which we find ourselves, and to so as deeply as we can. To gaze at distant stars from Earth, and gaze back home from as close to those stars as we can get.

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And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

W. B. Yeats

Fairly famous video of a badger and coyote together using a culvert going under a busy road near the Southern Santa Cruz Mountains, in California.

Video from hours earlier showed them together going in this direction, so this video seems like them going home.

I’ve worked on older automation projects (not using AI) and I’ve seen plenty of evidence of this behaviour. I even came up with a rule of thumb: for every step the rules-based system took towards automating a human step, the user retreated two steps. Basic thinking went right back in the shell.

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you"

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you"

Seen in Rochester, New York

I cannot tell you how totally I ache for these to be real.

Could anyone help with finding a home for Johnny please? He's a lovely Black Rock, not at all aggressive and fine with cats & dogs but needs to be living somewhere not next to someone heading for exams and needing their sleep. The alternative is the axe kind of despatch and tbh, that would break my heart. In Sprouston, Kelso, Scottish Borders, but I'll travel pretty much any distance to re-home. Please share - a friend of a friend may just be able to help; and no critical comments please - my neighbour is in a very difficult position and this can't have been an easy ask.

Please repost & help me find a home (UK) for Johnny. Needed through absolutely no fault of his own - details in alt text. Scottish Borders but will travel. Many thanks.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

👀 mesmerized by Angine de Poitrine 🖤🤍🖤
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John Clark, ce polymath excentrique, était un cousin de Cyrus et James Clark, les fondateurs de la marque de chaussures éponyme.
Sur sa machine à fabriquer des hexamètres latin :
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THE SAVAGE EYE a film by BEN MADDOW, SIDNEY MEYERS & JOSEPH STRICK A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

Free to watch worldwide for one week only, @severinfilms.bsky.social 4k restoration of THE SAVAGE EYE plays on Le Cineclub in special collab w Severin and Betsy Strick www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

Same here, way over my head too but they're such great communicators that somehow while they're talking I have an illusion of understanding but couldn't possibly explain any of it later! So I just listen again and again, very enjoyable mind expansion.

Just brilliant, wish it had gone on for longer, they had so much more to say! Fascinating stuff and infectious enthusiasm, (and I had no idea about 'Asgard' Archaea, 'Loki's Castle' hydrothermal vent etc, bonus enchantment 🖤) In Our Time - Archaea

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Temple of Denderah, 1891

John Gerrard
'Western flag', 2017

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Photo of a narrow street blocked by a huge wall of stacked oil barrels

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

An illustration of an owl with head slightly tilted and crescent moon above. Poem text reads "かたむいた月のふくろうとして" I am unsure of an appropriate translation.

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Hope they gave you strong stuff & it works 🤞🏻 Just be aware (I had this recently) that if infection is trapped in the tooth, antibiotics alone might not reach it. Sleep propped up and if after 2 or 3 days you think swelling worsening & moving towards your eye, call and tell them, trust your gut 🤞🏻