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7knotwind:

My Wife’s Fight with Breast Cancer
via: likeafieldmouse

anything I type here attempting articulate a response will seem trivial —
these images don’t need my words

 

wow…

(Source: algernoncadwallader)

likeafieldmouse:

Tokujin Yoshioka for Design Miami (2007) - An installation of 300,000 plastic straws

(via shinyslingback)

onlylolgifs:

(Source: bigbangtheory-gifs)

jewsee92:

When Neuroscience becomes art.

Neuroanatomy and neuroscience were never so interesting, especially when you don’t have to “visualize” them on an atlas, but you can admire their beauty and perfect organization in an Asian sumi-e style.

These paintings represent, in order:

• Synaptogenesis - Formation of synapses between neurons, cells electrically excitable, that allows information’s transmission.
• Hippocampus - Important part of the limbic system, correlated to the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory. In Alzheimer’s disease, it is the main region of the brain to suffer damage and waste.
• Retina - A light-sensitive layer of the eye, with neurons interconnected by synapses.
• Cortex - The outer surface layer of the cerebrum, composed of gray matter. It is so advanced in humans that it is organized in “gyri”, achieving maximum mass with minimum volume. Cortex develops memory, attention, thought, language and consciousness.
• Neurons.

Neuroscience art is realized by Greg Dunn.

Photos Source: http://www.gregadunn.com/.

(Source: jewsee-medicalstudent, via scienceisart)

staceythinx:

These may appear to be traditional Chinese landscape paintings, but take a closer look at these pieces by Yao Lu and you’ll see that these are not the beautiful scenes you’d expect. 

About the project:

The artist photographs mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets which he assembles and reworks by computer to create bucolic images of mountain landscapes shrouded in the mist inspired by traditional Chinese paintings. Lying somewhere between painting and photography, between the past and the present, Yao Lu’s work speaks of the radical mutations affecting nature in China as it is subjected to rampant urbanization and the ecological threats that endanger the environment.