Absiesfeed - Art And Cred

Meera Bai by Kshitindrnanath Majumdar, Bengal

House In Nakijin / Studio Cochi Architects Photos © Ooki Jingu

Caroline Tompkins

Agnès Varda - Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987)

United States, c. 1960: No. 8228

A split-level house with a roofline making it look more like a ranch. The L-shaped counter in the kitchen is of note.

Homes in Brick by L. F. Garlinghouse Co., c. 1960. (Topeka, KS, USA) —from my library

While most folks were sitting down for supper, NASA tried to move a space mountain.

Beyond sight for backyard stargazers, a spacecraft the size of a vending machine self-destructed by ramming into a harmless asteroid shortly after 7 p.m. ET Monday, September 26th. The high-speed crash was part of the U.S. space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.

The moment of impact marked the first time in history humans have attempted to alter the path of an asteroid, a flying chunk of rubble left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of the time, these ancient rocks pose no danger to Earth, including Dimorphos, the one NASA just used for target practice. But at least three have caused mass extinctions, the most infamous of which wiped out the dinosaurs.

Stegosaurus didn't have NASA.

"We are changing the motion of a natural celestial body in space. Humanity has never done that before," said Tom Statler, program scientist. "This was the substance of fiction books and really corny episodes of Star Trek from when I was a kid, and now it's real."

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Roden Crater | Painted Desert, Arizona

“My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.” - James Turrell

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

Rinaldy A. Yunardi  Jakarta Fashion Week 2016

Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

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