happy halloween

A slideshow of Crypts and Catacombs photos with National Geographic

stardust

as .. stardust .. with Stephane Grapelli ...

postcard age

Via NY Times Magazine, Leonard A. Lauder's postcard collection on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

starry night

Hmm .. van Gough still busy?   From NASA Earth Observatory, an image of Hurricane Sandy through the night sky.

The storm was captured by a special “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In this case, the cloud tops were lit by the nearly full Moon (full occurs on October 29). Some city lights in Florida and Georgia are also visible amidst the clouds.

found art

 

Under a Picasso, another.  And what appears to be an early Inness work uncovered in Dallas.

save the sounds

A very cool museum of endangered sounds.  Plus, the sound of vindication in found music.

r.i.p.

Via Arlington Public Library's tweet, Big Tex is gone.

time lapse

Shuttle Endeavor transverses Los Angeles in a time lapse composed of over 400 photographs.

bach

Freiberg Baroque Orchestra.

born again

Normerz transforms derelict structures.

 

tart

What amounts to perfection ..

*Photo credit:  Andrew Scrivani/The New York Times

color combos

Unusual color combos that work at Apartment Therapy. 

I like to think of this as the art of self-acceptance via design.   I "walk away" ("surf away?") feeling as if the world is a better place.  I feel hopeful, more at peace.

harvest

Autumn street threads and autumn recipe --  roasted butternut squash with kale and almond pecan parmesan.

I just know that is good.

* Photo credit:   butternut squash, photographer - George Chernilevsky