I used to write about video games, now I don't. English gentleman, insomniac, coffee drinker, cat owner.
Expect art, music, comedy, science, some nakedness and personal rants.
Marcin Bialas is a Polish artist who’s specialized in etchings and drawings in black an white. Among his large production, a recurring theme is dissected buildings and surreal constructions, such as infinite staircases and labyrinthine interiors, an atemporal combination of G.B. Piranesi and Brodsky/Utkin prints. The structures seem unfinished, yet already in ruin, able to plunge the viewer into an uncomfortable feeling. Somewhere between nightmares and theatrical settings, Marcin Bialas’ retro drawings explore the dramatic potential of different projections and points of view.
There are upwards of 800,000 lakes in Russia’s Sakha Republic, many of which are found clustered in its northeastern corner. Sakha, also known as Yakutia, is the most expansive subnational entity in the world, covering nearly 1.2 million square miles (3.1 million square km) – an area almost equal in size to India. About 40% of the republic is north of the Arctic Circle and covered by permafrost, which keeps many of its lakes frozen for 9-10 months of the year.
I thought this was one of those renaissance maps at first that exaggerated landmarks so you knew what you were looking at, but jesus, it’s a satellite photo. That’s… too many lakes. That’s an inland sea masquerading as land!
Russians cleverly putting bases and missile silos here so intelligence analysts looking at satellite photos get trypophobia and can’t continue.
Imagine never being able to walk in straight line between two points because you’re always veering around lakes. Lakes that are all triangles pointing in one direction! I assume it’s like a glacial effect or something, but yeah, it’s super unnerving to look at.
I refuse to accept that’s not a mineral sample or possibly nougat
