Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs.
Boullée’s most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton. It’s the first of the pictures below and you can find a short text about it here.
The Door of Perception
Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs.
Boullée’s most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton. It’s the first of the pictures below and you can find a short text about it here.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Indulging in the aimless activity of watching the ephemeral beauty of clouds can enrich your life. Realize we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within it.
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Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
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The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds…