Por Siempre

....Ongoing Fascinations....

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....Infinite Patterns....

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Gemma Baylay

"an astronomical compendium, signed by Humfrey Cole, made in 1568 for the Elizabethan printer and publisher Richard Jugge. … The compendium includes a quadrant, room for drawing instruments, a compass, a universal equinoctial sundial, a table of latitudes of towns and an incomplete calendar."

http://steampunkpics.blogspot.com/2008/11/astrolabe.html

Yosuke Goda

http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/12/toshiyuki-konishi/

attractive

http://www.crystalinks.com/ouroboros.html

Illustration

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”--Albert Einstein

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"Before Mandelbrot" there was Escher 1939

Vortex Basics

"For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art"

 – M.C. Escher

Escher's Grid

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Mingling Brain Toys:

Intelligent Design

Watchmaker

Biomimicry

 by Robert Steven Connett

Infinity Triangle by French collective Paper Donut

Below:

Romanesco Broccoli

This variant form of cauliflower is the ultimate fractal vegetable. Its pattern is a natural representation of the Fibonacci or golden spiral, a logarithmic spiral where every quarter turn is farther from the origin by a factor of phi, the golden ratio.

From sea shells and spiral galaxies to the structure of human lungs, the patterns are all around us.

Fractals are patterns formed from chaotic equations and contain self-similar patterns of complexity increasing with magnification. If you divide a fractal pattern into parts you get a nearly identical reduced-size copy of the whole.

The mathematical beauty of fractals is that infinite complexity is formed with relatively simple equations. By iterating or repeating fractal-generating equations many times, random outputs create beautiful patterns that are unique, yet recognizable.....

an eyeful

http://www.thequietrevolution.co.uk/

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MOTHER KALI

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The Journey is the Destination

An inspiration I'd like to remember.

Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970.  At the age of seven, a family move to Nairobi ignited a lifelong fascination with the land and the people of Africa.  Dan was an adventurer -- he went on several safaris with friends and used his 35mm camera to document these expeditions.  He was also a humanitarian -- while attending UCLA, he assembled the Student Transport Aid, a group of college kids who raised $20,000 to build wells for refugee camps in Malawi.  These teenagers trekked through several African countries to hand-deliver the money.  

By his early 20s, Dan had become one of the youngest Reuters photojournalists ever.  His photos covering the war and famine in Somalia were among the first to be published on the subject, spreading awareness of the injustices he saw.  Massive humanitarian aid poured in after these photos ran in TIME and Newsweek.  He was just beginning to realize his potential as a war photojournalist when, at the age of 22, his safari came to a sudden end.

On July 12th, 1993, a U.N. bombing in Mogadishu caused hundreds of casualties, sparking an uprising.  When Dan and 4 other journalists arrived to cover the scene, the raging mob turned on them and they were unable to escape.  Only one survived.

Dan left behind seventeen bound leather journals filled with drawings, writings and photographs which constructed vivid collages of the world he saw.  These journals chronicle a child’s journey into manhood, visual editorials on society, and homages to strangers and loved ones.  Dan's images represent his enduring belief that every individual has a creative spark within that can transform their environment for the better.

His journals are a celebration of adventure and a testament to live life to its fullest. DanEldon.com

Dan Eldon's Journal Art

Destroy What Destroys You

My mama told me the very same thing....