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This is actually from a couple of weeks ago, when I toured the ballroom with Dave and Jimmy. It’s the old telephone/paging system that ran through the Elks Lodge. I don’t know why it matters- all of these old and dilapidated things in my life. Aging systems and century old buildings that don’t mean a thing. A passing thought and a photo that I don’t really have any use for. Reliving the past, going over things I wish I could change but can’t, wondering how life would be different if I had only just picked option X. Or Y. Or Z. But I’m here and now and unsure of what comes next. All I know is that it’s going to be beautiful…

This is actually from a couple of weeks ago, when I toured the ballroom with Dave and Jimmy. It’s the old telephone/paging system that ran through the Elks Lodge. I don’t know why it matters- all of these old and dilapidated things in my life. Aging systems and century old buildings that don’t mean a thing.

A passing thought and a photo that I don’t really have any use for.

Reliving the past, going over things I wish I could change but can’t, wondering how life would be different if I had only just picked option X. Or Y. Or Z.

But I’m here and now and unsure of what comes next. All I know is that it’s going to be beautiful…

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge after the Collapse.  Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span’s short life ended in disaster, twisting to destruction in a wind storm.   Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.  —Barry LePatner

Tacoma Narrows Bridge after the Collapse.  Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span’s short life ended in disaster, twisting to destruction in a wind storm.

 

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. 

—Barry LePatner

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kateoplis: photojojo: “The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.” (know who shot this?) via loveyourchaos It’s by Glockoma from a model given to his cardiologist boss. It’s actually the vasculature of a porcine heart, not a human heart. The blood is replaced by a plastic substance and then put into a solution that dissolves the tissue. I couldn’t find a single post, on Tumblr or otherwise, with the right attribution. Let’s fix that. thank you! i hate improper attribution!

kateoplis:

photojojo:

“The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.”

(know who shot this?) via loveyourchaos

It’s by Glockoma from a model given to his cardiologist boss. It’s actually the vasculature of a porcine heart, not a human heart. The blood is replaced by a plastic substance and then put into a solution that dissolves the tissue. I couldn’t find a single post, on Tumblr or otherwise, with the right attribution. Let’s fix that.

thank you! i hate improper attribution!

Filed under photography giving credit anatomy

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kateoplis:

Christina Seely’s series Lux, long-exposures of Earth’s 45 brightest cities as shown by NASA’s map of the planet at night.

The three brightest regions are the United States, Japan, and Western Europe.

Aside from being the wealthiest and most powerful regions in the world, they cumulatively emit approximately 45% of the world’s CO2 and are (now along with China) the top consumers of electricity, energy and resources.

1. New York 2. Kansas City 3. Madrid 4. Kyoto

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