Tundra Tales

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This song brings back good feelings from last Summer. Portland and the rest of Oregon truly felt like home

Bon Iver - Towers (Official Music Video)  

If only just for gorgeous Pacific West Coast imagery. Made me feel homesick

I am in love with this project. The idea and the pictures 

I am planning to move to another place this Summer. After 10 years of moving from cheap house to cheaper house about once a year and using all my money to travel. I think I am ready to settle down, at least for a while. 

missfolly:

Timothy O’Sullivan’s stereograph view of Civil War sketch artist Alfred Rudolph Waud. Waud is posed here in Devil’s Den with his sketchbook. This view was taken circa July of 1863.’

whitebuffalowoman:

the owl by Will Becker on Flickr.

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(Source: Apartment Therapy)

(Source: Apartment Therapy)

birdsforthemind:

8 - a picture of somewhere you want to live

i grew up in a cedar “chalet” in the woods. there’s a garden up on the hill, a pond out front and plenty of room to wander. it’s been really hard for me to live outside of the woods, so someday, i want to live back in them. i’d like to stay in the northwest a while and definitely back east near the appalachians.

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fuckyeahromy:

sixstepsback:

alaindelon:

With Romy. My favorite picture of them ever, ever, EVER. [Click for full(er) size.]

SMIZE!

fuckyeahromy:

alaindelon:

With Romy in 1959.

alaindelon:

With Romy, 1959.

alaindelon:

With Romy, 1959.

German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has developed a record player that spins slices of wood from a tree’s cross-section, instead of vinyl. 

Called ‘Years’, Traubeck has modified a turntable’s needle by replacing it with a digital camera and light that scans the wood for thickness, growth rate, texture and overall color tone. 

A computer then interprets the data and maps it into a musical scale, which is then played back using piano sounds. 
What results are hauntingly beautiful melodies that differ based on the tree’s age. 

According to Traubeck, his turntable serves as an “impulse for the recipient’s imagination [as the listener] can speculate about things like the passing of time or natural phenomena, but it is never based on scientific facts that could be found in the music”.