Finishing up writing, will be done with school in the next three weeks.

diamonds-wood:

One of my fave photographers at the moment: PETER VAN AGTMAEL 

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wangechi Mutu. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is currently showing “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey,” the first mid-career survey of Mutu’s work. Curated by the Nasher’s Trevor Schoonmaker, the exhibition is on view through July 21. On May 23 the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney will debut a concurrent (but obviously different) Mutu survey. It will be up through August 14.

This is Mutu’s Yo Mama (2003) from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. It’s one of the pieces Mutu and host Tyler Green discussed on this week’s show.

How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.

Radiation from newborn stars heats up the Flame Nebula in the constellation Orion, some 1,300 light-years from Earth.

The resulting infrared light reached the European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope’s sensitive instruments on April 18, and was colored white, yellow, and pink to create this image.

The star illuminating the Flame Nebula would appear as another dot on Orion’s belt but for the huge cloud of dust obscuring it from view and making it appear four billion times dimmer.

—Brad Scriber

(Source: National Geographic)

diamonds-wood:

A polarized microscope photograph of elemental sulfur.  Ryoji Tanaka

“Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli welds a component of his self-made robot (back) at the yard of his house in Beijing, on May 15. Tao, 37, spent about 150,000 yuan ($24,407) and more than 11 months to build the robot out of recycled scrap metals and electric wires that he bought from a second-hand market. The robot is 6.8-feet-tall and around 529 lbs in weight, local media reported. ”

(Source: slideshow.nbcnews.com)

kcluvskc:

Amazing light at sunset last night. Looking NE from 2nd & Delaware.

kcluvskc:

KCTV’s Tower at 31st and Grand.

Facts: It weighs in at 1,200,000 pounds and stands 1,042-foot (318 m) tall.  Which is for reference purposes twice the height of the Kansas City Power and Light Building at 13th and Baltimore.  Built in 1956 it boasted the title of “World’s Tallest Self-Supporting Tower”, and for an old school picture of it taken the same year it was erected, click here. 

kcluvskc:

The finished product from my October 7th post and a link to their website.

tylerdking:

The new Whoop Dee Doo mural in down town Kansas City. (this is why KC rocks sometimes) 

diamonds-wood:

Kendrick Lamar by Robbie Fimmano for INTERVIEW MAY 2013

maximilianyearsbc:

(via concept ships: SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo)