Atomic Wise

Happy sad

atomicwise — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:28:19 +0000

Unreality

atomicwise — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:17:28 +0000

Titan as viewed from Saturn probe Cassini, shown with a false spectral overlay.

Flag Day

atomicwise — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:19:38 +0000

Rainy Days

atomicwise — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:59:49 +0000

“I don’t resent being a female painter. I don’t exploit it. I paint” – Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011

It feels like it’s been raining for days. The moors are truly sepulchral in this light. Sometimes you find a song that sums up the way you feel, or a poem, or just sometimes it’s a painting. I knew I recognised the name from my father’s collection of art books, I could instinctively describe the pictures without having seen them for years. When Brian Sewell said “there’s never been a great woman artist” he was a many thousand times wrong.

Hope

atomicwise — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:48:22 +0000

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” – Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011

Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares

atomicwise — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:40:16 +0000

This was used in the haunting film “Jesus of Montreal” to accompany the walking on water scene, a totally secular song by a Bulgarian choir from the 1970s that seems entirely transcendant.

Children watching Tacita Dean’s Film at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall

atomicwise — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:58:06 +0000

Starfish and the Brinicle

atomicwise — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:04:52 +0000

This has to be one of the most beautiful and yet most disturbing pieces of footage I’ve seen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/24/brinicle-frozen-planet-icicle-antarctica_n_1111637.html?ref=uk

Persimmon

atomicwise — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:28:36 +0000

More than ever

atomicwise — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:02:17 +0000

“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.” – John Berger