Great Sandy Scars (Click image for higher resolution).
In a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, large sand dunes —the only sand in this desert of scrub and rock — appear as lines stretching from left to right. The light-colored fan shapes are scars from wildfires.
Earth as Art. Super hi-res tiff files are available.
first-person shooter disease / via ionoi
…what’s haunting me is the difference between Jackson in the Off The Wall videos and how he looks in the Thriller clips. I’m not talking about the surgery, or rather I’m not only talking about that. The surgery - by then, ‘only’ a Disney eye-widening, a Diana Ross nose-narrowing, and a little skin-bleaching, as nothing compared to the collapsing Cronenbergian butchery of later years - is but a symptom of the change that you can see in Jackson’s face and body. Something had already disappeared that early, never to return.
A must read article on MJ by Mark at K-punk. Wonderfully sums up the irresistible allure of his masterpiece Off The Wall, the complexity and intensity of Billie Jean, and the spectacle that was the dehumanisation of the man himself.
Michael Jackson: a figure so subsumed and consumed by the videodrome that it’s scarely possible to think of him as an individual human being at all… because he wasn’t of course… becoming videoflesh was the price of immortality, and that meant being dead while still alive, and no-one knew that more than Michael…
Drew Barrymore by Herb Ritts, 1993
My latest facebook notification:
■■Heliconias■■ are in the Growing Gifts Shop! Send a Heli Copter to a friend. Or send a heliconia chartacea or a Helico Frog to a flower friend.
What the hell is wrong with you Facebook? Are you retarded? Don’t you get it? 99% of your third party ‘applications’ are basically spam. Get out of my face.
South Dakota by dnik on Flickr (via Processing.org Pool on Flickr)
