Monthly Archives: November 2019

Muralist Elian Chali Envelopes Building Facades in Enormous Abstract Fields of Color

Argentinian artist Elian Chali, who goes by just his first name professionally, creates vibrant murals that balance a simple aesthetic with carefully calculated designs. Elian often incorporates anamorphic shapes into his murals, placing squiggles and squares at the corners of … Continue reading

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Jaco and Toots – A Match Made in Heaven

Kurosawa’s Rashomon told the story of murder from three perspecatives. Jaco’s composition, Three Views of a Secret, is about something from difference views. Featuring Toots Thielmanns on harmonica and Jaco on piano. John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III (/ˈdʒɑːkoʊ pæsˈtɔːriəs/, … Continue reading

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An Enormous Skeleton Emerges in the Middle of a Mexican Street for Día de Muertos

In celebration of Día de Muertos on November 1, , Raymundo Medina built a massive skeleton that appears to be lurching out of the pavement on a street in Santa Cecilia Tláhuac, Mexico. Piles of crumbled concrete at the places … Continue reading

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Blue Morpho Butterfly Swarm, Brazil

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Hand-Built Paper Birds by Niharika Rajput Draw Attention to Endangered Avians

A detailed structural plan, hundreds of hand-fringed feathers, a custom-built wire armature: these are just some of the components artist Niharika Rajput uses to create her life-like paper birds. Rajput directly ties her art practice to conservation efforts by running campaigns to … Continue reading

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Why Japan Isn’t Cutting Down Enough of its Trees

Life Where I’m From Go to https://teamtrees.org and lets get some trees planted! #teamtrees I started off making this nice video about how Japan got its forests back through afforestation. Then I did too much researching on the Internet and … Continue reading

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Monster Halloween 🎃 Manchester !! — GoblinQueen

all I can say is these are brilliant and wish I’d seen the ones near the Arndale too via Monster Halloween 🎃 Manchester !! — GoblinQueen

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Brazil, my brazilian Brazil

Originally posted on My brazilian Brazil:
Brazil is a very big country, therefore a country with a very diverse landscape, culture, clime and people. The country is mainly divided in five regions: North, Northeast, Mid-West, Southeast and South. Wich one…

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Indigenous communities win share of South Africa’s rooibos tea profits in landmark bioprospecting agreement – Nature

The San and Khoi communities welcome the decision, which could have implications for other Indigenous groups — and biodiversity researchers. More than a century after commercial farming began on their traditional lands, the San and Khoi peoples of southern Africa … Continue reading

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Measles erases immune ‘memory’ for other diseases

Results from tests of unvaccinated children and monkeys come as measles cases spike around the world. Measles infections in children can wipe out the immune system’s memory of other illnesses such as influenza, according to a pair of studies1,2. This … Continue reading

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