Casa Milà by Antoni Gaudí
The elevators are only accessible on every other floor because Gaudí wanted people living on different floors to communicate with one another.
Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light.
“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
breathsoftruth / batarangs / alliterate / sapphos-ghost:
Back to Black - Glee Cast Version (Naya Rivera)
HOLY SHIT HER VOICE
She really needs to be a on a better show.
(Source: sapphosghost)
boleyns asked: People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their drams. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
World Map of the Day: Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern Paul was “interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends,” so he plugged a sample of approx. ten million pairs of friends into the open-source statistics environment R. He played around with the data until he managed to get the effect he wanted.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
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heroics | shellnestro | menacherie | starsburn:
What Pi Sounds Like
this sounds ridiculously beautiful for math.
YOU GUYS, this is actually really, really amazing.
(Source: lilbookofkell)