fragments and sutures

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Neon blue lava pours from Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen Volcano. The reason it’s blue is because the mountain contains large amounts of pure sulfur, which emits an icy violet colors as it turns. It turns the rocky slopes into a hot, toxic environment. (Article)

(via darcy--reid)

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alexander-denkert:

oil on canvas
200 x 130 cm
2014

New York Fact:

note-a-bear:

The people who ALWAYS take up the most space on a rush hour train are skinny white professionals.

TRUTH

5:34pm

We talk about taking pictures to capture a moment, but taking pictures isn’t really about capturing anything. How could it be? Capturing the moment of the photograph is impossible and we all know it. We don’t feel the same about anything once we’ve photographed it; we don’t have the same experience looking at the picture as we did when the thing was happening.

Instead, we take pictures to digest the raw material of experience; what photographers do is more like sculpture than anything, taking something and transforming it into something else, and/or the illusion of such.

Photography isn’t even about sharing, it’s about new things, things that didn’t exist before the camera was there. Things that are born within the apparatus. There is no translation, only transfiguration.

11:53am

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voiceofnature:

Valais blacknosed sheep. Although the earliest mention of it dates back to 1400, this large, docile mountain sheep was first recognised as a separate breed in 1962. It has adapted particularly well to life in the high Swizz mountains and grazes even on the steepest, stoniest slopes. The black patches on its nose, eyes, ears, knees, hocks and feet and otherwise light woolly coats make it quite unmistakeable.

(via havte)