Mr.
Matt
Spangler

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Filling in the City Holes with Legos.

The internet can be a magical and scary place. Every so often you experience a site that is just stunning.  I stumbled upon this one today (don’t ask).

Of course you can’t shut off the sound without leaving the page. Behold the glory of Better Beginnings.

Good set of “Sleeveface” examples found here.

Image credit: Meyer Ardila

“From Our Palazzo To Your Palazzo”

Perhaps the best Christmas card ever. The dogs are mesmerizing.

via Aurora

Richard Barnes Murmur project

“They put on breathtaking aerial displays above the city, banking in nervous unison, responding like a school of fish to each tremor inside the group.

The birds are beloved by tourists and reviled by locals - understandably, since the droppings cover cars and streets, causing accidents and general disgust. A flock of starlings is euphoniously called a “murmuration,” but there is nothing poetic about their appetites.Their ability to focus both eyes on a single object “binocular vision” allows them to peck up stationary seeds as well as insects on the move.

In the countryside outside Rome, they feast on olives. Like us, the birds are enormously adaptable but what we admire in ourselves we often abhor in our neighbors. Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds - or at least the double nature of our relationship to them - recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass. Many of Barnes’s photographs, which will be shown at Hosfelt Gallery in New York this fall, were taken over two years in EUR, a suburb of Rome that Mussolini planned as a showcase for fascist architecture.

The man-made backdrop only enhances the sense of the vast flock as something malign, a sort of avian Nuremberg rally. It is, of course, natural for birds to surrender individual autonomy to the flock; according to the Roman ornithologist Claudio Carere, who has identified 12 basic flock patterns, the starlings are primarily trying to evade falcons. But we project onto the natural world a large measure of ourselves. In ancient Rome, augurs studied the flight patterns of birds to divine the will of the gods; part of the fascination of the starlings is the way they seem to be inscribing some sort of language in the air, if only we could read it.”

Words fail me.

mikehudack:

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Amazing Image of Xavier Veilhan’s show on the grounds of Versaille by Todd Selby. Wish I was there to check this out.

The invisible man.