Svankmajer the great!!!

Chaotic Order

Here's the latest from Japaneses artist Mirai Mizue's beautiful abstract cell animations.
Go watch it and many others here.

Sara Teasdale 1884- 1933

I am not yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love-put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

john muir 21 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1942

Born in Scotland, then emigrating to America he was one of the most influential naturalist and conservationist of his time.

Through his writings as a wilderness explorer in a quest for nature's beauty, he taught the people of his time and ours the importance of experiencing and protecting our natural heritage.

Muir had once described himself, perhaps most accurately, as a "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc. !!!!"

Clarence Schmidt

 

  

In Queens, New York, Clarence Schmidt made a mansion of a small house, and covered it in aluminum foil. The House of Mirrors was destroyed by the very tar Schmidt used to secure the foil, a fire razed the structure in 1968. Undeterred, he began another building on the property the next year. When the second house was also destroyed by fire, Schmidt turned to sleeping in doorways, eventually being placed in a nursing home.