artemisdreaming:

X-ray Nautilus shell by Bert Myers

Large image: HERE

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my sunday movie matinee.

stylingtheman:

Legendary photographer Bruce Weber once again created a masterpiece when he turned the movie camera on American Icon and Jazz legend Chet Baker. Weber’s raw and candid documentary gives the world an intimate look at the bumpy and sad life of this sincere, Oklahoma boy who despite his unique talents, got lost in his incurable vices. Many esteemed Baker as the best trumpeter of his time and rightfully so. For me he took root in my heart the first time I heard his calming, childlike, velvety voice on Dad’s record player.  “Let’s Get Lost” which inspired the movie, “I’ve Never Been In Love Before, “Someone To Watch Over Me” and one of my personal favorite,  “My Funny Valentine” are only a few masterpieces Chet Baker bequeath the world of music.  Let’s Get Lost, is a heartbreakingly beautiful film, with some unforgettable music. Yes it’s dark at times and raw to the core, but isn’t also the world pool that is life, which one can easily get lost in!

timelightbox:

Martha Holmes / TIME & LIFE Pictures

Jackson Pollock paints in his Long Island studio, 1949.

In honor of 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, TIME presents a gallery of the painter’s life. See more here.

publicartfund:

Happy Almost Birthday, Jackson Pollock. 

sfmoma:

We want to wish a HUGE happy birthday to Jackson Pollock, who was born 100 years ago today.

Jackson Pollock was one of the first American artists to achieve a worldwide reputation, and he became an icon of the abstract expressionist movement. He spent his childhood moving between farming communities in Arizona and Southern California. At 18, he moved to New York, where he studied art and painted for the Works Progress Administration. In 1939, Pollock entered psychoanalysis as treatment for his lifelong alcoholism, and his work of this period was heavily influenced by C.G. Jung’s theory of archetypal collective symbols.

During the late 1940s, Pollock developed a groundbreaking abstract painting technique. He laid his large canvases on the floor and moved around them; rather than brushing on his paint, he poured it directly from the can or flung it in drips and spatters with a brush or stick. The resulting “all-over” paintings were an unmediated trace of his physical actions; they also did away with the artistic conventions of illusionistic depth and distinct figure and ground. Within a few years, however, and perhaps in rebellion against his tremendous critical success, Pollock began to re-introduce symbolic figures into his paintings. His life was perpetually marked by self-destructive behavior; he was killed in a car crash at the age of 44.

Featured here: Pollock’s Guardians of the Secret (1943)

jiffysquid:

1925: George Eastman taking pictures with a Kodak camera

(via Eastman Kodak: 130 years of history – in pictures | Business | guardian.co.uk)

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guardian:

Kodak, the hundred-year old photo company has filed for bankruptcy after years of falling sales related to the decline of its namesake film business as digital cameras have taken over the market.

We want to see your photographic memories which you made using Kodak point-and-shoot cameras, digital cameras and film. These pictures may be used on guardian.co.uk in a gallery.

Leave a photo reply on this post to show us: what are your favourite Kodak moments?

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ryanpatrickvideos:

newsweek:

Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.

U2  Pride (In the Name of Love) 1984

to this day, it can still move me to tears.

i12bent:

Martin Luther King, Jr. - American freedom fighter: Jan 15, 1929 - 1968, cowardly assassinated…

He freed a lot of people…

Photo - Francis Miller, Aug. 28, 1963 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I Have A Dream” speech during March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (aka the Freedom March)…

unknownskywalker:

Comet Lovejoy from the ISS

Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earth’s horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2011.

firsttimeuser:

Dali-Atomicus, 1948 by Philippe Halsman

let’s sway under the moonlight, the serious moonlight

iamjapanese:

Joan Almond

Moonlit Highway   Big Sur, CA   1987   

Platinum / Palladium print