The photograph was taken 2 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling segregation is unconstitutional. Gordon Parks was an outstanding, prolific, African American, photographer who captured the dark side of American society in technically brilliant photos in an essay for Life Magazine called Segregation Story. This is a great photo
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First, Best Images of Pluto | NASA
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades. Surreal. It is difficult for my mind to process this image of Pluto. Pluto has always been there,
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Poems
Poems poetically pole the Poet into a balancing axis for endlessly revolving surfaces, tender leaves are forest gifts to represent the earth growing out of decay, the minds’ youngest buds live on the revolving transformation of live enduring mountains of thought, and clear their pores in the melting sea. And open fields spawn their harvest
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grunge to gorgeous: Paris metro makeovers
Architectural sketches of proposed repureposing of Paris’ long abandoned metro stations. 75 years long. The project comes from mayoral candidate, Natalie Koziuscot-Morizet. So Parisian. Read more at: http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abandoned-stations-of-paris/ Edited with BlogPad Pro
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Angela Davis 1973
Great portrait. A gorgeous, powerful image…subject and photo. A late celebration of her birthday, January 26 1944. Edited with BlogPad Pro
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Icelandic icy waterscapes
Iceland is more magical than I had imagined. I plan to visit someday, a leftover childhood dream. I had to examine these closely to see if they were paintings, photoshop or photographs. And wish that I could post them original sized, full framed. The pieces are oddly frigid, rigid, organic and flowing. Volcanism and ice. From Spiritual
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