In My Overwhelmed Era

It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.

– Tablo, Pieces of You

Lil triangle

Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.

chart by u/mVargic

-Benedict Smith, I wish I wrote the way I thought

do you think about how medieval types were walking around and could imagine a fade haircut in their minds eye but knew that would be really hard to get anywhere

इन दिनों, दिल मेरा, मुझसे है कह रहा

तू ख्व़ाब सजा, तू जी ले ज़रा

है तुझे भी इजाज़त, कर ले तू भी मुहब्बत

बेरंग सी है बड़ी ज़िन्दगी कुछ रंग तो भरूँ

मैं अपनी तनहाई के वास्ते अब कुछ तो करूँ

जब मिले थोड़ी फुर्सत, मुझसे कर ले मुहब्बत

है तुझे भी इजाज़त, कर ले तू भी मुहब्बत

उसको छुपाकर मैं सबसे कभी ले चलूँ कहीं दूर

आँखों के प्यालों से पीता रहूँ उसके चेहरे का नूर

इस ज़माने से छुपकर, पूरी कर लूँ मैं हसरत

है तुझे भी इजाज़त, कर ले तू भी मुहब्बत

Sayeed Quadri (lyricist) your mind is beautiful

Young Mahmoud Darwish, (Palestinian poet and writer)

محمود درويش في شبابه، شاعر القضية الفلسطينية

His Life:

Mahmoud Darwish was born in "Al Birweh" Palestine (1941), During the establishment of the State of "Israel" in (1948), his village was destroyed and his family fled to Lebanon. As a young man, Darwish faced house arrest and imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. - Darwish published his first work of poetry "Wingless Birds" in (1964), when he was 19.

His Poems:

I am from there, I am from here. I am not there, and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part. And I have two languages, I forget which

We love life if we find a way to it. And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead. We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the dirt corridor a neigh. We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night. We love life if we find a way to it…

If the canary doesn't sing to you my friend know that you are the warden of your prison

- Translated by Fady Joudah

Self update: naughty dog posted this on their official tumblr account and I'm happy wahooo. Posting more art here now

"When wind turned to dust" A photo realistic charcoal portrait of Joel Miller from the last of us on paper ( 28×41cm) by Tanaya

Ornitographies by Xavi Bou

ORNITOGRAPHIES ARISES FROM THE AUTHOR’S CONCERN FOR CAPTURING THOSE UNNOTICED MOMENTS AND FROM THE INTEREST IN QUESTIONING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION.

Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible.

Unlike other motion analyses which preceded it, Ornitographies moves away from the scientific approach of chronophotography used by photographers like Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.

The approach used by Xavi Bou to portray the scene is not invasive; moreover, it rejects the distant study, resulting in organic form images that stimulate the imagination.

TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND CREATIVITY COMBINE TO CREATE EVOCATIVE IMAGES WHICH SHOW THE SENSUALITY AND BEAUTY OF THE BIRD’S MOVEMENTS AND WHICH ARE, AT THE SAME TIME, CLUES FOR THOSE WISHING TO IDENTIFY OR RECOGNIZE THEM.

In Ornitographies, the skill envied by men, the long-lasting shared yearning of flying, is presented to us, extending our visual perception.

Art and science walk hand in hand to create images, which are no longer a single portrait of reality but become a witness of the instants that, for a moment, were past, present, and future all at once.

ORNITOGRAPHIES IS A BALANCE BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE; A NATURE-BASED DISSEMINATION PROJECT AND A VISUAL POETRY EXERCISE BUT ABOVE ALL, AN INVITATION TO PERCEIVE THE WORLD WITH THE SAME CURIOUS AND INNOCENT LOOK OF THE CHILD WE ONCE WERE.

( information and pictures from his website

xavibou.com)

Frederick Judd Waugh.