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odditiesoflife: Red Beach, China Red Beach is located in the...

persistentoptimist — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:11:33 -0600

Red Beach, China

Red Beach is located in the Liaohe River Delta, about 30 kilometers southwest of Panjin City in China. The beach’s unique color is caused by a type of plant called Suaeda vera or Shrubby Sea-blite which is a coastal species that flourishes in the saline-alkali soil. The plant remains green during the summer but in the fall, when the plant has matured, it takes on a deep red color creating a stunning red sea landscape. Most of Red Beach is a nature reserve and closed to the public. Only a small, remote section is open to tourists.

actegratuit: Ani Reimi-Orsa is an artist from Helsinki,...

persistentoptimist — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:59 -0600

actegratuit:

Ani Reimi-Orsa is an artist from Helsinki, Finland. Ani creates beautiful landscape concept artwork which looks like watercolor painting.

ryan-a: A tiny story, written by Sloane Leong and drawn by Ryan...

persistentoptimist — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:33:23 -0600

ryan-a:

A tiny story, written by Sloane Leong and drawn by Ryan Andrews

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persistentoptimist — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:14 -0600

theartofanimation: Danil Shunkov

persistentoptimist — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:55:08 -0600

theartofanimation:

Danil Shunkov

retroheavy: aku illustration I did.

persistentoptimist — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:42 -0600

retroheavy:

aku illustration I did.

perfection-has-no-limit: Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s...

persistentoptimist — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:55:02 -0600

Stones from the River (2010) | post by perfection-has-no-limit.tumblr.com

Tools (2010) | post by perfection-has-no-limit.tumblr.com

Field Guide (2010) | post by perfection-has-no-limit.tumblr.com

Chemistry (2010) | post by perfection-has-no-limit.tumblr.com

perfection-has-no-limit:

Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s Books by Curt Lund

kimmikart: Just doing some sketching. Block print-ish…. way...

persistentoptimist — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:33:06 -0600

kimmikart:

Just doing some sketching. Block print-ish…. way fun.

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persistentoptimist — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:22:34 -0600

Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)

persistentoptimist — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:22:18 -0600

Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)

farewell-kingdom: Bottled History by Commoner “Ray Gascoigne...

persistentoptimist — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:38:48 -0600

farewell-kingdom:

Bottled History by Commoner

“Ray Gascoigne has spent a lifetime at sea as a shipwright and sea merchant. His memories and love for ships are made physical through miniatures he constructs with extreme care within old whisky bottles. Over the past 60 years he has built hundreds of replicas of ships from the past and present of maritime legend. Many were built at sea, in the lonely cabin hours of night, and Ray (now 85) continues his craft on land today” (watch video).

wryer: “Scatterbrain” facebook

persistentoptimist — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:27:51 -0600

wryer:

“Scatterbrain”

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"That’s what art does, that’s what it’s for — to show you that what you think can be erased,..."

persistentoptimist — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:05:59 -0600

“That’s what art does, that’s what it’s for — to show you that what you think can be erased, cancelled, turned on its head by something you weren’t prepared for — by a work, by a play, a song, a scene in a movie, a painting, a collage, a cartoon, an advertisement — something that has the power that reaches you far more strongly than it reaches the person standing next to you, or even anyone else on Earth — art that produces a revelation that you might not be able to explain or pass on to anyone else, a revolution that you desperately try to share in your own words, in your own work.”

- A fine addition to history’s finest definitions of art from Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 SVA commencement address on how the division of high vs. low robs art of its essence. (via explore-blog)