"Words have meaning, and type has spirit…"

Paula Scher

Tungurahua Erupts, Patrick Taschler (2006)
(via APOD: 2012 April 2)

Lartigue, though having lived and worked in the infancy of the Modern Age, harkens back not to Victorian optimism, but to what M.H. Abrams called the Romantic “Natural Supernaturalism.” Within his photos, we glimpse creation in reverse, or the body pulled by its toes back into the emanating light from which it sprang. A woman is stopped, mid-summersault, as if to be rolled back to her girlhood. A boy is hooked by his heals mid-dive. A dog is launched across a ditch but has come to the end of the invisible rubberband to which he is attached. The creatures of Lartigue’s photographs verge on being jerked back to that original joy of the imagination before the act.

What it all comes down to is the miraculous response of the body to the human mind—an energy propelling nature’s cycle forward from origin to experience and back to origin. We leap and fall and spin over and over again because the joys of our bodies refuse stasis. We are not trees. We are not stones. We are what Wordsworth describes as “transitory Beings.”

Auric Fields (by danica+karl)

Maura (by danica+karl)

“[It] united photographer and subject bringing them into a universe of their own.” unknown

(Source: my-iridescence, via victory-marchh)

Crown Crystals (by danica+karl)

Sacred Blooms (by danica+karl)

Much love to Prince Enoki and his Insect Orchestra; their performance at the Phoenix in Toronto sent cascades of good vibes across the land! :)

EP cover illustration by Morgan Maher

Having thought I’d seen the work of Gabriel Dawes many moons ago - I’m so pleasantly surprised to see it just like this: an echo across the colour spectrum, ringing beautifully in my eyes.

(via xevilious)

(via ruradelia-deactivated20110412)

"[The artist’s] job was similar to the scientist’s in that he had to translate in a concise and durable language the multiple meanings of the universe, meanings that until then had remained too enigmatic to be perceived."

Marcel Marnat