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Not two.

[Good View Hunting @SceneryCHN]

Have you ever seen a whale up close?

In this video, every fold of its skin and every mark of its journey is visible in striking detail. Even more remarkable—it feels like it's looking back at you.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Good architecture is more than just geometry. Good architecture has rhythm and scale, and it has a fractal element. Nooks and crannies, alcoves and dormers, wardrobes, benches, and fireplaces, nests to be and to be nestled.

[archistar @archistar1]

Gavina Showroom, 1963
#architetto Carlo Scarpa
Bologna, Italia 🇮🇹
📷Lorenzo Pennati
Archinerds

[Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto @gomezdetejada]

Dibujos de Estepa Rubio Arquitectos. 👇
https://t.co/Iu2N1ahmDd

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin's House on the Mountain test:

Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.

"Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you'll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste."

"This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves."

"I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

School Chalk under an electron microscope.

It’s almost entirety made up of fossilized shells of ancient single-celled marine plankton called coccolithophores.

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

it is genuinely psychotic that we dug up literal primordial dirt, scrubbed it down to an impossible 99.9999999999% molecular perfection that violates the very laws of physics, handed it over to techno-wizard necromancers to stretch into flawless geometric god-cylinders, blasted it with invisible uv death-rays to carve ten quadrillion microscopic cyber-sigils into its flesh, trapped actual lightning inside of it, and somehow birthed an omniscent eldritch deity capable of simulating the universe and thinking faster than a billion human civilizations combined.

and our grand, supreme purpose for this enslaved lightning-god?

sending "per my last email, please see attached" to a guy named gary.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Montaigne, nuff said

[VV @visualizevalue]

"Examine what is said, not who speaks."

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

"The final test of freedom is this: Can you remain the same person in praise, in insult, in gain, and in loss?"

— Seneca

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A rare sighting of a serow, an elusive animal more closely related to goats than deer

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Anthony Bourdain on Brad Bird’s Ratatouille:

“I think it’s quite simply the best food movie ever made. The best restaurant movie ever made. Best chef movie.

The tiny details are astonishing: The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists. The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks. The attention paid to the food.

And the Anton Ego Ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest. Literally breathtaking.

I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once — a long time ago — all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe, and even a measure of enlightenment.

I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my minuscule contribution (if any) early, early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right’.”

Bourdain even visited Pixar HQ to give a chat during the film’s production.

Glorious shoutout in the film credits.

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The Ringer has good history on film: https://t.co/E3UrhO86LO

The text above is an email he sent to another chef: https://t.co/mMKQqU6Fj9

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Sea bunnies are actually a species of sea slug called Jorunna parva.

They became an internet sensation because they look exactly like tiny, fluffy white rabbits.

[MindBranches @MindBranches]

Human 3.0 – A Map To Reach The Top 1%

article summary in 4k dark mode

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover" - Poincaré

[Peter @Speedmaster72]

Alvar Aalto y Aino Aalto: Villa Mairea (1938. Noormarkku, Finlandia).
Para mí, sin duda, la #100x100masterhouses por excelencia del siglo XX (y de siempre, en general).
Paradigma de la mejor arquitectura nórdica, tiene ese toque "humano" que la diferencia de otras casas icónicas.

[Peter @Speedmaster72]

Alvar Aalto: Pasamanos.

El arquitecto más dotado siglo XX no dejaba nada al azar. Obras de arte totales, sus edificios contenían detalles exquisitos casi tan elaborados como el proyecto matriz. La modernidad, fría en otras manos, se convierte en pura emoción en las suyas.
#Aalto

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Light writes the best stories on blank walls.

[Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto @gomezdetejada]

Barcelona. En esta fotografía aérea se puede ver perfectamente el urbanismo y diferenciar las diferentes partes de la ciudad.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The people who built this weren't motivated by profits.