The Pebble Toad

The Pebble Toad.

The Hunger Artist

"A supremely rare and thus under-appreciated adaptation of Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist to stop-motion. The director, Tom Gibbons, describes his fascination with Kafka's story: "The excuses I was hearing over and over were 'nobody really understands stop-motion' and 'it is too expensive.' ... I was attracted to this romantic and oddly futile character. The artist, against all odds and better judgment, refuses to abandon his craft. I don't think of him as a hero, and yet some crazy instinct or corner of myself does. There is ironic humor to the idea that the starving artist was flipped into an artist who starves.""

Combing the Earth

via pruned

A Belly Full of Consumption

I would love it if I could say that this is an art student's project of some kind.

Sadly, I cannot.

Arctic Elephant-Foot Glacier

This may be called the Arctic Elephant-Foot Glacier, but to me it looks more like a giant frozen squashed Platypus.

And this is what a giant frozen squashed platypus looks like when it's snowed under:


via BLDGBLOG / Alfred Wegener Institute

Rose of Bread

Rose of Bread, explains Amon Yariv, is made of Bread on a wire.

"The flower is in a plastic bottle and the water is yellowish because of the wire's rust. Yariv is telling us about what prisoners in old Russia where doing while in prison. They were using plain bread and kneading it, leaving it in water for few days; then they were coloring it and flattening it into small red and green leaves. With these they assembled the "flower" head on a wire and when their Girlfriends came to visit they handed it as a gift."

via moon river

Videogioco

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

Archinature

"Evolver is a wooden construction build by 2nd year students from the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. When you walk through it, you’ll make a 720° turn and have an amazing panorama on the surroundings of Zermatt."

Via Today and Tomorrow

Yareta

"Yareta (Azorella compacta, also known as "Llareta" in Spanish) is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile and the west of Argentina at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.

Yareta is an evergreen perennial being in leaf all year. The flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. The plant is self-fertile.

Yareta is well-adapted to high insolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade.

The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature.

It is so compact in fact that locals have for many years collected yareta (with pickaxes) to use as fuel for cooking.

The plant grows at a rate of approximately one millimeter per year, and thus many yaretas are over 3,000 years old."

info from various sources (mainly wikipedia)

images found here and here

The Angry Owl, The Sad Dog, and the Lonely Parrot.

The Angry Owl.

The Sad Dog.

The Lonely Parrot.

Thanks for watching.

The Oldest Living Thing in the World

"Rachel Sussman photographed some of “The Oldest Living Things In The World”. This actinobacteria from Siberia (above) is supposed to be over 400,000 years old. Mind blowing."

via today and tomorrow