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This photo won third prize in the Nature category of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest.
The Colima Volcano in Mexico shows a powerful night explosion with lightning and some incandescent rockfalls. The photo was taken on December 13, at a distance of 12.5 kilometers away from the crater near a lagoon named Carrizalillos on Comala Municipality. This particular bolt of lightning is more than 600 meters tall, lighting details of the south portion of volcano in this 8 second exposure.
Photographer Unknown, (Man Stand-in in Stream with Hat in Hand)
“(My copy of Hall’s ‘Secret Teachings of All Ages’ has a really neat picture of Shakespeare with an onionskin engraving of Bacon that you can lay over it to see what Shakespeare would have looked like in a fruity hat. I truly recommend this book.)”
― Kenneth Hite, Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast
“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick or, The Whale
Greg Dunn, “Hippocampus II”, Japanese Sumi-e Ink Wash on Panel
Greg Dunn, who received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, explores that connection, painting images of the hippocampus, cortex, and neurons. He uses a traditional Japanese Sumi-e ink wash painting style with modern interpretation.
He has always cultivated an interest in disciplines like meditation and Sumi-e brush painting.
“I think the natural state of the human mind is calmness. So when you are able to create a smooth line that is as close to a natural process as a human can get. You’re trying to capture the natural molecular unfolding of nature.” -Greg Dunn
Julia Rohwedder is a graphic and animation artist.
“The change comes rapidly, quicker than thought. The wolf in man surges from the mind and into the body. The thought to action becomes action; the action becomes the force and cunning of a wild one going into a hunt. The senses heighten and explode.” – Thomas of Maidstone
“When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn’t there a consciousness of the present moment; fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair’s breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that is what Rigpa is! Yet it doesn’t stay in that state forever, because another thought suddenly arises, doesn’t it? This is the self-radiance of that Rigpa.
However, if you do not recognize this thought for what it really is, the very instant it arises, then it will turn into just another ordinary thought, as before. This is called the “chain of delusion,” and is the root of samsara. If you are able to recognize the true nature of the thought as soon as it arises, and leave it alone without any follow-up, then whatever thoughts arise all automatically dissolve back into the vast expanse of Rigpa and are liberated.”
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Viktor Herak, “Two White Feathers”, From the “Anitsikwa” Portrait Series
“A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
One of the most famous underground cities is the city of Agartha, a legendary city that is supposed to be in the centre of the Earth, the Earth’s Core. Central Asia is the origin of those legends and the race inhabiting this underground realm was called the Agharti. Theosophists refer to Agartha as a vast complex of caves and an underground network supposedly made by man.
Chris Duczynsky, Drone Surf Photography, Australia
Chris Duczynski and the crew at Malibumedia shoot and edit TVC’s, promos and broadcast footage. They also shoot aerial video and stills for any product or promotion that needs something a little different.
Erik Gonzales, “Olympus Mons I”, 2016, Pigmented Plaster, Powdered Marble, Acrylic Emulsion, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
Phoenix artist Erik Gonzales’s mixed media works refernces both nature and history. He incorporated various material in his art, including clay, acrylics, marble dust, and plaster.
Erik Gonzales was born in 1973 in New Mexico and was raised in Arizona, Colorado and Connecticut. In 1990 he moved back to Arizona and attended Arizona State University where he graduated with honors. Gonzales studied in Madrid in 1995 obtaining a second degree in Spanish Studies and Literature.
It is Gonzales’s Spanish heritage that continues to have a profound influence on his work creating a dichotomy of new and old. The analytical side of his work can be traced to his father whose pioneering career as a nuclear pharmacist introduced the artist to the world of science at an early age. The deep textures and bold use of color represents his mother’s Andalusian background and continues to influence his use of mystical imagery within his work.
