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2015 Tåketrollet

Alvvays - Atop A Cake

Radiance // Cameron McFarlane

this time lapse photography was shot by louis schwartzberg as past of a potentially larger documentary, “fantastic fungi”, which documents the work of mycologist paul stamets and the earth saving value of mushrooms. as paul explains in his ted talk: 

“mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together. it’s extremely tenacious. it holds up to 30,000 times its mass. we have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mycelium. in a single cubic inch of soil, there can be more than eight miles of these cells. the mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom that bursts through with such ferocity it can break asphalt.

“we’re more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom. we share in common the same pathogens. fungi don’t like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi. we exhale carbon dioxide, so does mycelium. it inhales oxygen, just like we do. but these are essentially externalized stomachs and lungs. and i present to you a concept that these are extended neurological membranes.

“fungi were the first organisms to come to land. they came to land 1.3 billion years ago, and plants followed several hundred million years later. the mycelium produced oxalic acids, pockmarking rock and grabbing calcium and other minerals and forming calcium oxalates. this makes the rocks crumble, and is the first step in the generation of soil.

“now, we’ve had several extinction events, and 65 million years ago we had an asteroid impact, and a huge amount of debris was jettisoned into the atmosphere. sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the earth. those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, because fungi do not need light. fungi use radiation as a source of energy, much like plants use light. so, the prospect of fungi existing on other planets elsewhere, i think, is a forgone conclusion.”  

Slime Molds ( Myxomycetes)

Alexander Wide photographer

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It seemed a lifetime. © 2016 Nozomu F.

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[Moon River]

“Like a river flows so surely to the sea, darling so it goes some things are meant to be..”

And memory stays or fluxes like light reflects, gleams, on a river as it moves downstream.

Martin Willitts, Jr., from “Time is a Hummingbird Darting,” Peacock Journal (September 2016)

Fairy Pools, Skye, Scotland, July 2016

Clouds//Montana July 2016

Moody//Mount Hood National Forest October 2016

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More Poetry Is Needed

Memento Mori

After the haze

"wir spielen beide dieses Spiel, du mein und ich dein." arghhh.

Küss mich, so absichtsvoll ergeben, wir spielen beide dieses Spiel, du mein und ich dein.

So sind wir für einen Tag und eine Nacht einander: Dämmerung und Schlaf und süßes Sterben.

2016년 10월 13일, 18시 47분의 달. 오늘은 달의 90%가 차있는 날이고, 월령은 12.5입니다. #moon #sometimesmoon

love this. really.

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483 Lines - Second Edition

Updated installation from Kimchi and Chips is made of several long parallel strings, with light projected to create mesmerizing patterns:

Two scenes of kevlar rope face one another tensioned to 5000kg. The audience is presented with highly parallel lines which contrast the darker space, building panoramic moire patterns. Video projection is used to address each line with digital pixels, activating visual matter within the volume of string.

This second edition of the 483 Lines was commissioned by the ACT Festival, Gwangju 2015, continuing to celebrate and interpret the non-constructive aspects of the NTSC television format.

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