Typography/Topography
An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop.
Typography/Topography
An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop.
current favorite aesthetics: images from Mike Brodie, a young photographer who traveled 50,000 miles on trains across America + captured train culture.
"Lord, not you, it is I who am absent. At first belief was a joy I kept in secret, stealing alone into sacred places: a quick glance, and away-and back, circling. I have long since uttered your name but now I elude your presence. I stop to think about you, and my mind at once like a minnow darts away, darts into the shadows, into gleams that fret unceasing over the river’s purling and passing. not for one second will my self hold still, but wanders anywhere, everywhere it can turn. Not you, it is I am absent. You are the stream, the fish, the light, the pulsing shadow, you the unchanging presence, in whom all moves and changes. how can I focus my flickering, perceive at the fountain’s heart the sapphire I know is there?"
- “Flickering Mind,” Denise Levertov
A project my dad and I have been working on for over a week—finally complete:
An old book turned into an electric guitar.
“Earth As Art” in a Free E-book
Now NASA has collected some of their most abstract and artistic shots of our home planet and put them into a free e-book! You can download it here for exactly $0.00 (£0.00, ¥0.00, €0.00).
(via io9)
Earth is my favorite kind of art. Look at these beautiful images.
"Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all it’s stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home."
- Annie Dillard, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
"To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And know there is more That you can’t see, can’t hear; Can’t know except in moments Steadly growing, and in languages That aren’t always sound but other Circles of motion. Like eagle that Sunday morning Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky In wind, swept our hearts clean With sacred wings. We see you, see ourselves and know That we must take the utmost care And kindness in all things. Breathe in, knowing we are made of All this, and breathe, knowing We are truly blessed because we Were born, and die soon within a True circle of motion, Like eagle rounding out the morning Inside us. We pray that it will be done In beauty. In beauty."
- “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
"There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places."
- Wendell Berry, “How To Be a Poet”
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
