Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Miles Davis – “Pharaoh’s Dance”
"How do you paint with sound? It’s a good question and the answer comes from German photographer Martin Klimas. He starts by putting different colored paint on top of a speaker over some translucent material, then cranks up the volume. The vibrations of the speaker shoot the paint into the air creating beautiful patterns and sculptural forms, and Klimas snaps them with his camera while in flight."
"Each image becomes an abstract portrait of whatever song he plays—from Miles Davis to Kraftwerk. The New York Times says he spent six months and about 1,000 shots to get the required results and also that his influences were abstract art and Hans Jenny, a scientist versed in cymatics , the study of waves and vibrations."
Aerial view of suburban neighborhood urban sprawl in Las Vegas, Nevada
"Is living in the suburbs in one’s own home a dream come true or a living hell? Does homeownership, space and a certain amount of freedom within one’s own four walls outweigh the financial burden, traffic snarls and uniformity that suburban life represents? We’ve taken to the skies to take an aerial view of residential communities around the world and found 15 amazing examples of suburban beauty – a result of the patterns formed by buildings that from ground level would appear somewhat less enthralling."
Ernst Haeckel – philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work – Art Forms of Nature - began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.
via kuriositas.com
"A single sand grain is a simple thing. But en mass, grains of sand build, slide and settle into beautiful and mysterious patterns we admire, but cannot always understand."
{ Above } "Martyn Gorman has found these weird and wonderful formations near his home along Scotland’s east coast on two occasions. What is at work in this magical intersection of sand and physics, no one, it seems, knows"
