The Daily Croissant

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2011

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Fluorite - Dolomite Products Quarry, Penfield, Monroe Co., New York, USA

"A gem quality lustrous water clear very pale blue fluorite crystal measuring 1.9 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm is set nicely upon a 5.1 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm matrix. In very good condition damage-wise as seen in the photos. This is quite good for the locality."

by Anja Markiewicz  

German artist Anja Markiewicz folds paper into tiny shapes small enough to fit on the tip of your finger in her series, nano-origami. Using only her hands and a toothpick, Markiewicz manipulates paper into miniature animals, snowflakes, flowers and a variety of other itsy-bitsy forms.

by Nick Sayers  

"We looked at playing card constructions before in this column, but this one by Nick Sayers is impressively intricate. The 270 playing cards each have four slits, and lock together like the classic IQ Lamp. Each card is forced into a curved form because it locks with a neighboring card at two points which are closer together than a card’s width. Light from an internal lamp escapes dramatically from under these curves."

Crystal Cave
Svínafellsjökull, Skaftafell, Iceland
photo by Örvar Þorgeirsson

“We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it” (Lawrence Durrell).