can officially say my blog makes you high.
Oh my fucking god. This is awesome
Awweesssooommmeee!!!
oh my gosh this is insane
HOLY FOOF WHENEVER I SEE THIS AND DO IT I’D USUALLY JUST STARE AT MY WHITE WALL BUT NOW THAT THERE’S STUFF ON IT I’M LOOKING AT IT AND HOLY FOOF WHAT JUST HAPPENED
OMG IM PANICKING WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING???
yeah, at first i was staring at a blank wall, expecting to see jesus or some shit, then i looked around and WOOOOOOOOOOO
I’m so high right & this shit is so trippy.
(Source: forever90s, via the-enchanted-mermaid)
First Jenny Saville inspired development piece. Here I continued my development theme of the female body, looking at an artist who focuses on that, particularly a piece involving photographs of her naked self lying on top of a table, with the camera placed underneath. I recreated this by putting my own self on top of my scanner. The idea of this was the almost recreate a rape scene, the way Jenny Saville picks at her own body image and flaws, I picked on memories and portrayed this into photographs. The idea was to copy Saville’s style of being pressed against the glass as though being inspected, but also to show the brutality of how rape feels and how dirty and messed up it can make the victim feel- even if the rape itself was not physical brutal or dirty.
never ending supply of reblogged art coursework.
(via feedyourwanderlust)
Introducing the House In Nada!
This house is beautiful, but small. It’s filled with light, which is a huge advantage, and provides ample living space.
Queen Alia Airport
Architects: Foster + Partners
Location/Year: Amman, Jordan / 2013
Treehouse Community
Finca Bellavista (FBV) is a sustainable treehouse community situated on 600 acres of land in the mountainous South Pacific coastal region of Costa Rica. FBV is the brainchild of Mateo and Erica Hogan, a married couple from Colorado who fell in love with Costa Rica.
Theory of Moments (part I) by Instant Hutong
Temporary site specific installations in empty spaces and abandoned courtyards in XianYuKou district in Beijing. The neighbourhood is under threat of demolition and people are expected to leave it. In this situation of uncertainty for many of the local inhabitants, the project works through different approaches and media. Graphics patterns to decorate the public walls, redefinition of public spaces using existing materials founded on site, insertions of little elements to be used as playground, interactive installations with colours and sounds will define a series of “moments” rich of meaning in which to intensify the vital productivity of everydayness, according to the definition by Henri Lefebvre (Theory of Moments in “La Somme et le Reste”, 1959).
Centro de I+D+I en Prevención de Riesgos Laborales en PTCS de Armilla Jorge Suso
Images by Fernando Alda
Every time a cell divides it makes a copy of crucial ingredients, including the histone proteins that are responsible for spooling DNA into tight little coils around complexes of histone proteins (“nucleosomes”). When the histones aren’t made correctly, genomic instability can result. Seven years ago, researchers noticed an aggregation of proteins along a block of genome that codes for the critical histones, but they had no idea how this aggregate – a “histone locus body” (HLB) – was formed. Now, research conducted in fruit flies has identified a specific DNA sequence that both triggers the formation of the HLB and turns on all the histone genes in the entire block.
The finding provides a model for the coordinated synthesis of histones needed for assembly into chromatin, a process critical to keeping chromosomes intact. “Our study has uncovered a new relationship between nuclear architecture and gene activity,” said senior study author Bob Duronio. “In order to make chromosomes properly, you need to make these histone building blocks at the right time and in the right amount. We found that the cell has evolved this complex architecture to do that properly, and that involves an interface between the assembly of various components and the turning on of a number of genes.”
In the fruit fly, as in the human, the five different histone genes exist in one long chunk of the genome; the “histone locus”. In flies it contains 100 copies of each of the five genes, encompassing approximately 500,000 nucleotides. The proteins required for making the histone message – a process that must happen every time a new strand of DNA is copied – come together at this histone locus to form the HLB.
The researchers wanted to figure out how these factors knew to meet at the histone locus. They inserted different combinations of the five histone genes into another site of the genome, and looked to see which combinations recruited a new HLB. They found that combinations that contained a specific 300 nucleotide sequence – the region between the H3 and H4 histone genes – formed a HLB. In contrast, combinations of genes that lacked this sequence did not form the body. They went on to show that this sequence turned on not only the H3 and H4 genes in its direct vicinity, but also other histone genes in the block.
Hashtag Highlight: #followmeto with @muradosmann and @yourleo
Russian photographer Murad Osmann (@muradosmann) and his girlfriend Nataly Zakharova (@yourleo) travel constantly for work and they’ve come up with a unique and romantic perspective for sharing their experiences around the globe on Instagram that has caught the attention of publications like the Daily Mail and the Huffington Post. The entire project actually started as an accident: “I was taking pictures of everything and Nataly got annoyed, so she dragged me forward to move on. That’s how the first #followmeto was taken, and I quite liked the result so we have continued the series ever since.” Murad started using the hashtag #followmeto to catalog photos of Nataly leading him to landmarks and exotic places.
Be sure to follow Murad (@muradosmann) and Nataly (@yourleo) on Instagram for more of their around-the-world photos and a behind-the-scenes look at how to take them yourself!
Don’t leave me.
Beautiful mind that taught mine how to thirst for knowledge.
Time passes, dragging you along like an ungrateful bitch.
You are losing your mind.
Piece by piece.Time has no mercy for your condition.
The confusion and emptiness in your eyes swell mine with tears.
My name…
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When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist living in London, immediately began work on an ambitious series of self-portraits. The artist pursued this project over an eight-year period, adapting his style to the growing limitations of his perception and motor skills and creating images that powerfully documented his experience of his illness. The resulting body of work serves as a unique artistic, medical, and personal record of one man’s struggle with dementia.
Embryonic Bat Skeleton
1st image: Image (still needs credit)
2nd image: Scott Weatherbee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
(via we-are-star-stuff)