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Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon.

Apparently, he was commissioned to photograph the city for the Sunday Times - but his photographs were considered too bleak to publish

I’m not from Glasgow, but I understand that this building was on Dalmarnock Road, & was subsequently demolished

#photography #glasgow #raymond depardon

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Laurie Anderson, Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity), 1973 (at the age of 26).

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#seamus heaney #walk on air #against your better judgement #poetry

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Communist Manifest-crow

#corvids #ravens #communism

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#street art #anarchist

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Chris Bourke Art

#art #dontletthebastards #getyoudown #chrisbourke

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When you in bed having an imaginary argument with someone and in your head they say some out of pocket shit

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they’ve always said, when you feel a random shiver, that a rabbit has run across your future grave

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Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1886, John Peter Russell

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ROGUE ONE CREW →  LAST MOMENTS

rogue one novelization ( alexander freed )

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follow @the-future-now

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http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/37579/1/derek-ridgers-tells-the-unknown-story-behind-his-1981-photo

House party, 1981, by Derek Ridgers.

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“Cassini's own discoveries were its demise.”

– Earl Maize, its project engineer @ JPL

current mood: emotional about a space probe

Cassini is the first spacecraft that was destroyed not from malfunction, or as a necessary end result of its mission… but out of love.

The probe was running out of propulsion fuel, but there’s no reason it couldn’t have been pushed into a stable orbit from where it could collect data and send back pictures for a long while yet.

Except it had detected that one of Saturn’s moons held liquid water and organic compounds: a world that might support life. A world that is, at the least, dreaming of life.

There is no orbit stable enough to be certain that the probe, carrying radioactive batteries and Earth’s bacteria, would never have come into contact with Enceladus. A delicate island of alien life could have been snuffed out or overrun. The sheep could have eaten the rose.

So instead - for the love of this fragile possibility, this potential that might yet never be realized - Cassini was brought into a final, intimate tango with Saturn.

But of course, all space probes are built for the sake of awe, which is nearly love. Science is rational, but scientists are driven to understand the universe just as the religious strive to know the face of God.

The Cassini probe was a 4 billion dollar machine for understanding Saturn. And yesterday, two decades after it launched from our planet, it was destroyed while sending us information about Saturn it never could have gathered from a distant, stable orbit: advancing its purpose, even knowing that it would be consumed.

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Mom: let me see what you have!

Kid: A KNIFE!

Mom: NOOO!!!