fairytalemood:

art by Tatyana Doronina

mpdrolet:

Water Polo Players, 2010

Charles Fréger

amnhnyc:

In the not-too-distant future, scientists expect that technological breakthroughs—and availability of genetic data from specimens of extinct species—will provide ways to revive vanished species.

Museum Curator Ross MacPhee discusses the science and ethical considerations of “de-extinction” in this video: http://bit.ly/13449Tt

stephlaberis:

swegener:

Speaking of different body shapes. These are all basically peak human bodies. 

How come 99% of them don’t conform to what the entertainment industry tells us is the perfect body?

Mr. Zhuang is totally giving us bedroom eyes and it’s perfect. Also, great ref!

zodiaccity:

Sagittarius compatibility.

saveroomminibar:

Bioshock Infinite.
The First Lady Airship + Columbian Airship; Designs by Ben Lo.

Disney Princesses: Royal Jewels by 

~MissMikopete

ourafrica:

MAKOKO FLOATING SCHOOL

| LAGOS, NIGERIA | 2012

A floating ‘building’ in the water community of Makoko, located in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. The project is an innovative approach to address social and physical needs in view of current challenges of climate change and an urbanising African context. The pilot project – ‘Makoko Floating School’ – is aimed to generate a viable, ecological, alternative building system and urban culture for the teeming population of Africa’s coastal regions.

COMPLETION PREVIEW EVENT – MARCH 2 2013

PROGRAM: School, Community Building
AREA: 220 m2
STATUS: Under Construction
TEAM: Kunlé Adeyemi, Thijs Bouman, Segun Omodele, Chryso Onisiforou, Martin Oreoluwa, Berend Strijland, Monica Velasco
COLLABORATORS: Blok Kats van Veen Architects, Dykstra – Naval Architects, Roel Bosch, Urhahn + Borra, Pieters Bouwtechniek, Ikeyi & Arifayan, Solarmate Engineering Ltd., Renderings Tim van Bentum
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

PRESS

Africanarchitecture - november 2012
CNN ‘INSIDE AFRICA’ – MARCH 2013
THE GUARDIAN – MARCH 2013
ARCHDAILY – MARCH 2013
DESIGNBOOM – MARCH 2013
MORE PRESS

This is Africa, Our Africa

daughterofthewoods:

achangingaltar:

ilvalentinos:

okayophelia:

KINGDOM COME

Worship. Stars. Revolution. The future is burning.

The City is the power, the city is alive and older than anybody could imagine. The city is light and spires and humanity running through the same spaces for aeons. The city is angry. It is ruled by the God Queen in whose throne the ancient alien power of the gods are bound, who holds the power of the city in her conductor hands, in her sparking, untouched heart. Her brother, the shining warrior prince, is the iron fist to her divinity, and is brutal as only the old gods were, with a mind like the shining vault of heaven. Together they are of an ancient dynasty with secret knowledge of forbidden ceremonies, who hold dominion over all understanding of the heavens and the electrical soul of the roiling City.

But their doom is lurking in the shadows, dancing in blood and guerrilla tech in the underground: the wild, joyously violent messiah who will tear apart their rigid and ceremonial rule, who leads an ecstatic hedonistic cult that threatens the civilized and stagnant peace of the city. In this, he walks hand in hand with his mad scientist who lives in the guts of the City, who shapes and reshapes bodies with savage surgery and living metal that when they dance in revelry; so too might the City, and together they will show the people the forbidden way to the stars.

The City is rising.

[In pre-production Summer 2013, by C.O.I.N, learn more here]

  #a kingdom whose destiny is entwined with space and the stars     #that whirls through ballrooms and aristocracy and ancient knowledge and brutal gods     #where scientists are aristocrats and the young and poor are never given the roadmaps to the stars     #and the fiercely hedonistic violent underground cult     #that modify their bodies and dream of flying     #and bathe in blood and weld metal to their body to become more than flesh     #to escape the prison of their bodies; so controlled by the mighty     #and build their own skyscrapers to the stars     #in joy; in dionysian revelry that leads the way to truth and revelation and     #hijacks the apollonion control of the sciences and knowledge that lend power to the powerful     #and bright shining cities that hurtle through space and time and become self-aware of that violent movement     #in whose palaces and streets people live and breathe life into the soul of the kingdom     #until it stretches upward through the aspiration and violence     #into the heavens     #the god queen who brought the heavens down into the world     #and the kingdom that shook itself free of the world that its people might soar outward and upward     #I HAVE A PROBLEM I KNOW     #IT’S CALLED GETTING INCOHERENT ABOUT SPACE     #also mildly obsessed with the holy/unholy brother sister pair abandoned in a city of mortals who made themselves more     #and their tragedy is that they would not suffer any others to rise    

What is this….what is going on here?
Someone explain these excited feelings in my….regions.
All the regions. 

What is this. IT IS PERFECT.

dash7912:

interesting