Situationists. Art, politics, urbanism (book cover)
Hurricane Sandy created conditions conducive to exotic optical phenomena like this display, captured by David Hathaway, comprising “two sun dogs, a 22-degree halo, a parahelic circle, an upper tangent arc, and a parry arc.”
Abstract painting in grey, brown, and black – Feng Zhongrui (1966)
The silence of pines on remote peaks, Li Huayi (1999)
Recursive pyramid, Tom Beddard
A drop of water freezing at -20°C over 18 seconds, forming an ice tree (Science)
Three variations of the cover art for Efterklang’s album Piramida
By far the best digital copy I have found of Gustav Dore’s “The Enigma,” one of my favorite paintings of all time (click for extremely large version).
M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy (Martin Pugh)
Heat graph of PINs; origin is 0000, apex is 9999 (Data Genetics)
Tatsuya Kawahara – “Die Ideale Stadt [The Ideal State]”
– 2011 (larger version here)
Clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article inevitably leads to the ideas of truth, philosophy, and rationality. Don’t believe it? Try it. An interesting demonstration of nested ideas (and the tendency of Wikipedia articles to begin with a statement of a higher concept to which the item belongs).
The Moon (RIP Neil)
“Through the Green Fuse” – electrified flowers by Robert Buelteman