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Gratitude by Robert Whalley

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Fabian Oefner is a photographer who likes to make science visible, whether that is through visualizing sound waves with tiny crystals, creating nebulae-like images from lamps, or using a drill to photograph the movement of paint within a millisecond.

At TEDxWarwick, he spoke about his work, which includes the amazing photos of soap bubbles bursting seen above. From his talk:

What I do in my work is try to mix art and science together — whether it is an image of a soap bubble that is photographed at the very moment of its bursting, or whether it is strange liquids that form into pop-art-like structures, or if its acrylic paint that is modeled by centrifugal forces, I’m always trying to link art and science together.

We come across [things like magnetism and sound waves] in our daily lives quite often — and most of the time we don’t pay too much attention to them…I try to take these phenomena and show them in a poetic and in an unseen way and therefore invite you, the viewers, to stop for a moment and think about all the magic and the beauty that is constantly surrounding us.

See more of Fabian’s art at his website, and — below — watch his entire talk, which includes some amazing demonstrations of visualized sound waves:

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Today's Tom Sawyer, He gets high on you

Tonight my mother admitted to me that she knows I suffer from depression and have since adolescence. She said she realizes now that I showed signs of it when I was in the 7th grade, as well as in the 11th and 12th. She said she wished she had recognized back then what it was, and instead had just written it off as common symptoms of my age.

I think half the battle with mental health is trying to figure out what exactly is going on in your mind and what the source of the feelings you are feeling (or have felt) are. I had always blamed events in my life for my feelings and symptoms of depression. I had never taken the time to critically consider how I had handled these, other than thinking I was "just one of those people" who "took things a lot harder than other people do".

It is not that I needed my mother to re-diagnose me. However, I think it's pretty cool how honest and open she is with me in her reflections on it. I myself had not (until somewhat recently) put together my history of reoccurring bouts of depression. Until I was faced with the question"Do you have a history of depression?", I had never considered thinking about time before I was 19. But when I sat down and recounted how I had handled events in my life in the past, I realized I had always responded to them in a way that had concerned the people around me. I had always wondered why  each time they had seemed to worry about me so much. I was just like anyone else dealing with grief, or so I thought. But my anxiety/ies, my tendencies to unhealthily dwell, and my desire to sleep and never wake up was not a form of "dealing" that was healthy. 

When it came to a point where I needed to get help, I was willing to do anything to fight depression. I cannot be more grateful for having the attitude I did. I was willing to do everything and anything to help myself get out of the black hole that was sucking me in and away from who I was. The seemingly melodramatic cliche thing to say would be "I saved my own life". But if I'm really honest with myself, (and at this point all I am is honest with myself) I would say I did.

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Life is just the dead on vacation.

Tom Waits (via ryandonato)

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Cute days and nights I never thought I would come across again and now all I can do is smile and sigh.

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This movie has three different titles — All I Wanna Do, Strike!, and The Hairy Bird. They settled on All I Wanna Do (1998), but there are copies of the film with the other two titles on them as well. That might be why people who likely would have watched this movie haven’t yet, there was some marketing confusion, or so it seems.  

There are so many familiar faces in this great cast, leading and cameos alike. We are introduced to the all-girls school through a new student. She quickly learns that despite the strict rules, her new friends know how to get what they want. They overhear plans for their school to be combined with the all-boys school nearby. The girls devise a plan to sabotage the efforts of administrators, and keep their school the way they want it.

Verena: Right. Just image, we’ll have to wash our hair every night. We’ll have to sleep on rollers til our scalps bleed. Then we’ll have to get up at six every morning for the comb out. Your lungs will be lined with hairspray. Then you need all this equipment to push up the tits and blitz the zits and spray the pits! Then you stagger into class and you look perfect but you’re exhausted, you’re too tired to even think, but that’s okay the teachers they won’t call on you anyway. Also, you don’t want to be smarter than the boys. They don’t like that. So to wake yourself up you drink some coffee at lunch, but don’t eat the food. You’ll be on a permanent diet!

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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Henry James

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liquid crystals 2

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Leila Hyams with small furry friend. 1930.

Photographer: Unknown

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So I might lose one but I know I definitely gained another. Friends in strange places but I'll take it. I can take it.

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Better With Flowers

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There are so many things I want to say but I am so afraid to say them. 

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Sea Urchin

NY based artist Jennifer Maestre has been fascinated with the tension within the spikes of the sea urchin and with her latest works she’s created them using pencil crayons. To make a sculpture, Maestre cuts pencils into 1-inch sections, drills a hole in them and stitches them together like beads. 

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