Mira Prabhu's Blog, page 31
November 28, 2016
Whimsical Storybook Beasts and Birds Illustrated
Wow wow wow…whimsical storybook beasts and birds…thank you Alk3r!
Barcelona-based illustrator Vorja Sánchez depicts comically surreal storybook creatures that look like a cross between mutant dinosaurs and shadowy demons — but also captures the very lifelike spirit of birds and other animals.
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November 25, 2016
Incredible Fungi Timelapse from Planet Earth II
Incredible Fungi…shot in timelapse from Planet Earth…and truly mindblowing…thanks Alk3r!
This stunning timelapse footage from the new Planet Earth II series on BBC One captures a wide variety of unusual fungi as it blooms at night.
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November 23, 2016
The Hypnotizing Beauty of Albino People
Strikingly lovely….thanks, Alk3r!
Zohar
For some time I (Yulia Taits) have had the idea to create and photograph a project (“Porcelain Beauty”) featuring albino people or people with Albinism.
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November 19, 2016
The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
As a little girl, I would see faces everywhere…someone told me there’s a name for this ability, but I don’t remember it…the strange thing is that this still happens…i see faces everywhere, in splashes of water on a floor, on the trunks of trees, rocks, you name it…thanks for sharing, Alk3r!
In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces.
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November 18, 2016
Astonishing And Unusual Homes From Around The World
Which of these unusual homes would YOU like to inhabit???? Thanks for sharing, Alk3r!
A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province April 11, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
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November 15, 2016
Meghalaya: The Rainiest Place on Earth
You know, its too bad that there is no balance here on Earth — all this rain in Meghalaya, and here we’re doing pujas for the skies to open up and bless us…I lived through some very rainy weather in the foothills of the Himalayas, sheets of blinding rain that devastated the entire infrastructure, but when I was complaining, someone said – oh, be grateful you don’t live in Meghalaya! Thanks for sharing this, Alk3r!
In a scene played out every weekday morning, students of the RCLP School in Nongsohphan Village, Meghalaya, India, cross a bridge grown from the roots of a rubber tree. In the relentless damp of Meghalaya’s jungles, wooden structures rot away too quickly to be practical. For centuries the Khasi people have instead used the trainable roots of rubber trees to “grow” bridges over the region’s rivers.
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The Superb Bird-of-Paradise’s Courtship Dance
Sick of politics? I don’t blame you…so here are some superb images of the incredibly lovely Bird of Paradise….thanks, alk3r!
Photo credit: www.birdsofparadiseproject.org
The aptly named “superb bird-of-paradise” is fascinating to behold, especially when it’s performing its courtship dance. In fact, once the male bird opens its plumage, it doesn’t look like a bird at all.
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November 13, 2016
Monday Funnies…
“I’m already disturbed!!! Proceed with caution!” Oh, Aunty Acid, I adore your vinegar tongue….thanks for sharing, Chris Graham!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
Source: Aunty Acid on Facebook
November 12, 2016
So Long, Leonard …
“This is my small tribute to someone who managed to touch our perfect bodies around the world with his mind – with his words and his music. I mourn the loss of Leonard Cohen…” read on…thanks Sally Cronin, for pointing me to this, and to Susan for a great farewell post.
Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
I met Leonard Cohen once.
Since I spent all my employed life working in bookstores and for publishing companies, it was a given I’d meet many famous (mostly Canadian) authors during that time. And I did. I still have most of their signed books on my shelves here on Bequia. I haven’t given them away in all this time so it looks as though I’ll still have them when I die.
But Cohen was different, because I never represented him and he was actually in Calgary to sign books at the rival bookstore around the corner from the one where I was working. If the sales rep accompanying him hadn’t had the forethought to buy coffee and bagels from the restaurant across 17th Ave. and bring them, along with Leonard, over to our store where they could sit in armchairs by the window and eat and visit with us, I…
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November 11, 2016
Beautiful Worldwide Portraits of Ancient Cultures
This is our world too…so varied and so very beautiful…thanks for sharing, Alk3r!
Italian photographer Mattia Passarini shots remote corners of the planet. Like a testimony, his work highlights the world’s most ancient cultures and their lifestyle diversity and similarities.
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