The Daily Croissant

Photograph by Robin Loznak

"Light shines through the gills of a wild mushroom found growing in a damp, forested area near Elkton, Oregon."

"Acclaimed Argentinian director Juan Pablo Zaramella just released a masterful stop motion short film entitled Luminaris.... Detailing a few summative days in the lives of two lightbulb factory workers, Luminaris is a masterpiece in both its lighthearted depiction of the monotonies of assembly-line work and its quick-draw frame-by-frame storytelling...

Every frame is meticulously crafted, from the tousled hair of our male protagonist to the shadows creeping across cobblestone streets. The effect practically brightens the screen for you." The CreatorsProject 

"Try to imagine reddish green — not the dull brown you get when you mix the two pigments together, but rather a color that is somewhat like red and somewhat like green. Or, instead, try to picture yellowish blue — not green, but a hue similar to both yellow and blue.

Is your mind drawing a blank? That's because, even though those colors exist, you've probably never seen them. Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously.

The limitation results from the way we perceive color in the first place. Cells in the retina called "opponent neurons" fire when stimulated by incoming red light, and this flurry of activity tells the brain we're looking at something red. Those same opponent neurons are inhibited by green light, and the absence of activity tells the brain we're seeing green. Similarly, yellow light excites another set of opponent neurons, but blue light damps them. While most colors induce a mixture of effects in both sets of neurons, which our brains can decode to identify the component parts, red light exactly cancels the effect of green light (and yellow exactly cancels blue), so we can never perceive those colors coming from the same place.

Almost never, that is. Scientists are finding out that these colors can be seen — you just need to know how to look for them."

Photograph by Patrice Carlton 

"I had planned a recent trip to Thailand in November to coincide with the Loy Krathong celebration because I had seen pictures of the floating lanterns being launched into the sky. However, nothing I had seen prepared me for the incredible magic of experiencing thousands of these lanterns floating into the night sky at once while monks chanted at the Lanna Meditation Center in Chiang Mai. It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had."

Director : Daihei Shibata

"Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light.
And it constantly changes... 
Life illuminates itself and then it begins to illuminates a new life. 
A sprouted mass of innumerable lights become a flow before long,
and then become the part of the life-throb of ages. 

That ties life, this moment now."