Abstract painting in grey, brown, and black – Feng Zhongrui (1966)

Marielle V Jakobsons – “Crystal Orchard”
Glass Canyon

An ethereal but sonically fascinating album. Jakobsons creates wonderful atmospheres, and the journeys through those soundspaces occasionally resemble songs. The first three tracks (this is the second) are especially intriguing. (experimedia)

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//fascinating: old weather project crowdsourcing reading of old ship’s logs
//creativity closely correlated with mental illness (again)
//are these spidery black things on mars dangerous?
//cache of amazing roman erotica unearthed
//locally-sourced maps of the antarctic
//DNA’s 521-year half-life

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil — in its worst state an intolerable one — for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities are heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Cardioid/Sequoia simulation of the human heart

The silence of pines on remote peaks, Li Huayi (1999)

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Sin Fang – “Strange House”
Half Dreams

An excellent EP packed with some just plain great songs. This one in particular has a wonderfully varied structure, swinging from jangle to piano-and-surf to Elephant 6 psych. Calming but still upbeat and musically interesting. (insound)

Recursive pyramid, Tom Beddard

Stacked frames from the International Space Station (Cristoph Malin) – shades of hyperspace

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.

Abigail Adams