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The Atacama (Chile), is the world’s driest nonpolar desert. It's normally so dry that in some regions, rainfall has never been recorded and few plants, animals, or even bacteria live there. But every three to 10 years, it brims with blooms that sprout because of rare heavy rains and transforms nearly overnight from a sparse desert into a beautiful garden of many colors. This periodic phenomenon is known locally as desierto florido (flowering desert). These pictures are from 2015. Source : national geographic

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Mary Wigman, a mystical dancer from the past - photographed by Hugo Erfurth, 1926

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Source : vintage annal archives

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Strangest Bird - published in The Press Herald (Pennsylvania), December 28, 1934.

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"Margaret Again" - Jaki Irvine, 1995

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Involuntary clairvoyant - The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception, 1929. Internet Archive, from a book uploaded by associate-jenna-risano.

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Bard entertaining a silver dragon in Robin Wood’s “Music Lover”.  (Dragon 97, May 1985). Source : oldschoolfrp

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Using the latest light microscope technology, this delightful short movie by Kristina Dutton renders microscopic mosaics from collections of over 50,000 specimens of butterflies and moths. Biopixels (2024) meditates on their seemingly endless biodiversity, translated on their wings through color and pattern variation. None of the images in this film have been manipulated, they are real microscopic images that were "animated."

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Toru Kitayama - From the exhibition "Watakushi Toigensho" in Nagano JP, June 2025

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Pixel Dream, Charlotte Johannesson, 1981–86. A key figure of Swedish counterculture, Charlotte Johannesson has worked above all with two tools, the craft technology of the loom and the digital technology of computer programming, to explore and expose the conceptual and methodological connections between the two. More about this great artist here.

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STASIS / MAPPING THE INVISIBLE / CAPTURING TIME

How much space does a second occupy? Seconds unfold to precisely reproduce the movie on a time and sound based drawing 1 sec = 6mm The map depicts a code based on Laban notation system of the relationship between sound, image, body and object in motion and in space within 60 secs : ◦ The first row demonstrates a code of a plan view of the movement in space ; ◦ The second row describes the dancers steps one by one in space ; ◦ The third row is the sound wave that the dancer and the object in contact produce ; ◦ Last row is a series of photos taken each second (using photo-finish technique) demonstrating spatial distortions. Source : Viral Institute of Performance Architecture

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Cherubim Sketches for the Cathedral in Kyiv, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1893 Via @slothu

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Generative art by @30000fps

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Nothing to declare, 2024 Photograph by Adeolu Osibodu