Bertrand Russell - Love is wise, hatred is foolish

A Message to Future Generations

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - A Message to Future Generations
watch the video below

urban animals

We are face-to-face,
in the company of significant others,
companion species to one another.

Donna J. Haraway

Sunday Favorites - Behind the Curtains

You can keep as quiet as you like,
but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84


Ernst Haas

Animals in Art - Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera



© Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Naked Dog, Belgium, 1993

Black & White - Angels

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin
of an angel named imagination

E. E. Cummings



Ralph Eugene Meatyard


Warning: This post contains photographs of female nudity

Underwater (Photography)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

Arthur C. Clarke


Trent Parke

R.I.P. Ruth Asawa

Art is for everybody

Ruth Asawa


Another great artist passed away this week.
Japanese american sculptor Ruth Asawa died August 6, 2013

You can browse a catalogue of her work here
I also recommend this article:
Requiem for a Badass: Ten Things You Might Not Know About the Late, Legendary Ruth Asawa

Black & White - R.I.P. Robert Häusser

Bewusst Sehen ist ein permanentes Abenteuer und erhält in uns eine Unruhe,
die uns bewegt, hinter die Dinge sehen zu wollen.

Robert Häusser




Robert Häusser, Self-portrait, 1981

Monday, August 5th, 2013 german photographer Robert Häusser
(born 1924 in Stuttgart) died at age 88 in Mannheim.

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

behold this fool who, in the month of June,
having of certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd

E. E. Cummings

Europa

Black & White - Beautiful Decay

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats



Keith Carter, Hummingbirds, 1989
(more Keith Carter)

Warning:
This post contains photographs of dead people and/or animals which some viewers may find disturbing