fauna

katobus:

snake Illustrations I’ve made for calendar 2013.

http://katobus.tumblr.com/

siphonophora:

Diatoms are a major group of typically unicellular algae, and are one of the most common varieties of phytoplankton. Unique to diatoms, their cells are encased in a cell wall of silica (silicon dioxide), which is responsible for their crystalline appearance. Diatoms are autotrophic, meaning they derive their nutrition from their surroundings by means of photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. This places them in the role of producers in the food chain.

Classification:

Eukaryota > Chromalveolata > Heterokontophyta > Bacillariophyceae

devidsketchbook:

Settlements and City Strategies by Lekan Jeyifous

Lekan Jeyifo (tumblr / twitter)

This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.

A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered

blackkittenclan:

Photgraphs by Ren Hang

Beijing-based photographer Ren Hang’s images are uncensored, erotic, dirty, raw, somewhat deranged… you get the point. His work is censored in China but he has a growling list of international shows. He’s pretty badass and doesn’t seem to have a limit, and the images we chose are even toned down a bit compared to some of the others on his website which you should check out. They cast light on an otherwise shadowy Chinese underground youth culture, where lust and indulgence run as rampant as anywhere else in the world

Thanks Empty Kingdom.

(via: Juxtapoz)

blackkittenclan:

‘An Interpretation of This Title’: Nietzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content.

“In this 150th anniversary year (2009) celebrating the work of Charles Darwin, artist Joseph Kosuth creates a new commission in the library where Darwin was inspired to pursue his revolutionary, evolutionary theory.

Kosuth has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. This new work is a series of debates between Darwin and Joseph’s long time collaborators, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

These Kosuthian sentences and dialogues probe the paradox of content that occurs between philosophy, science and art. Presented as a set of neon diagrams and words we find Darwin’s own immediate, intuitive and creative doodles and drawings introducing the ideas that we later take as the blue prints for scientific truths. Joseph uses Nietzsche’s thoughts with a Wittgensteinian approach to interrogate the creative and philosophical slippages that occur in the convergent descriptions of philosophy in relation to art.”

http://2009.eif.co.uk/joseph-kosuth-reference-room

http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com/works/artist_exhibitions?artist=31&year=2010&work=12432&exhibition=336&page=1&text=1&c=s

blackkittenclan:

Stone Balance Installations by Michael Grab

Amazing stone balance art using only gravity to hold them together.

Through witnessing what this art has done for me personally over years of practice, my vision grows more and more to encourage others to seek their own “still-point” or inner silence. No-one but you is required to experience your divine nature. This art allows one to freely be themselves, manifesting their own particular vibrations into a 3D world. Stone balance teaches the practitioner lessons through silence. The inner silence that one cultivates through balancing (or other meditative practice) is a foundation to realizing that each of us are as much one another as we are our entire universe. One gigantic symphony and to apply a framework of “balance” to the earth-organism will be infinitely beneficial for the well-being of our children, as well as the diversity of life we co-exist with.

You can see more of Michael’s work on his website Gravity Glue.

(via: Faith Is Torment)

inkmaps:staceythinx:

Felt specimens from Hiné Mizushima’s

Unnatural History Museum.