heartofariver:

voiceofnature:

For over 13 years (and girlfriend and children), architect Mickey Muennig lived in the tiny Greenhouse—his 1976 take on the then-popular dome and his celestial artistic response. From the deck of the outdoor bath, you can see up the coast.

Inside the one-room house, the reclaimed-redwood platform bed hangs on slender steel rods fastened to the ceiling. The ceiling cap is a vent—the house’s thermostat.

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kaileemckenzie:

I can’t help but reblog this

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theoddmentemporium:

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.

In 1848 some workmen, after moving a block of stone in the woods, found a small cavity in the rocks. In this cavity, hidden away, were three earthenware jars containing over 3,000 Roman coins. No-one knows why the coins were hidden away in the cliff face nor by whom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, a frequent visitor to the Forest of Dean, may have visited Puzzlewood, and many believe Puzzlewood was the inspiration for the fabled forests of Middle-earth, such as the Old Forest, Mirkwood, Fangorn or Lothlórien contained within The Lord of the Rings. J.K Rowling is also said to have visited Puzzlewood, and it may have been this that influenced her idea of The Forbidden Forest in the Harry Potter books.

theshinyboogie:

(You gotta admit, the logic of that first sentence is pretty airtight…)

True, January 1963

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piquette:

With his series “Smoking Kids”, Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens focuses on the issue of smoking, drawing the viewers attention on the  aesthetics of smoke and the particular way smokers gesticulate with their hands and posture.

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theoddmentemporium:

These extraordinary pictures, most of which have never been seen before, show one of the many towns made and destroyed by the U.S. military in the Nevada desert as part of ongoing nuclear tests during the Cold War. They date from 1955, a time when the threat of nuclear war hung over much of the world and when tests like this one were almost routine in the fierce arms race between America and the Soviet Union. But the pictures bring home the potential devastation that a nuclear bomb could have visited on a small American town.

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venetians:

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theoddmentemporium:

The earliest known examples of tattoos were the Egyptians, having being present on numerous female mummies that date as far back as 2000 B.C. It was only until “Iceman”, a frozen body found at the Italian-Austrian border in 1991, was discovered with patterns adorned across various parts of his body that presented evidence of tattoos existing much earlier. Scientists have carbon dated “Iceman” to around 5,200 years old. 

analuseeya:

i would die for this ceiling

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piquette:

Rune Guneriussen shoots these amazing installations in locations around Norway. 

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virtualpizza:

this is probably the single most amazing thing I have ever seen.

This is why biology interests me so much I mean LOOK AT IT.

i just stared at this for the longest time.

this needs more notes.

Totally agree with the person above, this is amazing.

i watched it at least 10 times! O.o

And people ask me why I take biology? It’s FULL of natural wonders. It’s just amazing.

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