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inspiration from nationalgeographicmagazine:

Not long ago, the entire length of the High Line was an unkempt jumble of weeds and wildflowers. The third and last segment, to the north of 30th Street, still is.

Diane Cook and Len Jenshel/National Geographic Image Collection

another early test, with a different river…

cosmic-dust:

(via zamaraayala, pikari)

an old book about Russia with the US pavilion from Expo 67 in Montréal rising beyond. started this ages ago – forgot i’d gotten this far. to be continued…

inspiration

see the animated version iwdrm

this started as a building, then morphed into an asteroid-processing starship or something. background by (and remains © of) the fantastic Paul Doherty, taken from Patrick Moore’s amazing Travellers in Space and Time

inspiration

more far outness at Cosmic Dust

a line from Broken Bells’ The High Road and the Trinity test, 0.25 seconds into the dawn of the nuclear age. as Major General Thomas Francis Farrell describes it:

“The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined.”