Rolf Maeder, Grand Canyon, 2013

Born this day.

PJ Harvey, Man-Size Sextet, Rid Of Me, 1993

The small blue dot to the right is the amount of fresh water we have on Earth.

"A deeply disillusioned man, he saw humanity as essentially bestial and the city of Berlin as a sink of depravity and deprivation, its streets crowded with unprincipled profiteers, prostitutes, war-crippled dregs and a variety of perverts. A communist, his feeling of social outrage stimulated him to produce the most biting drawings and paintings." ~ Trewin Copplestone

George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916-17

The Blind Men and an Elephant

Today is National Poetry Day

Devotion by Robert Frost

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to ocean -
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition. 

Evokes Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, 1824

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Ship in Stormy Seas, 1858

Apollo 11 Landing Site. Click above for large version.

Eugène Thivier, The Nightmare, 1894

Henry Fuseli, Hamlet and his father's Ghost, ~1780-1785

Henry Fuseli, The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments, ~1778 - 1779

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"The Murray persona has become familiar without becoming tiring: The world is too much with him, he is a little smarter than everyone else, he has a detached melancholy, he is deeply suspicious of joy, he sees sincerity as a weapon that can be used against him, and yet he conceals emotional needs. He is Hamlet in a sitcom world." ~ Roger Ebert, 2005

"The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering and the achievement of self-awakening. It is used to develop insight into the true nature of phenomena (or reality) and to eradicate greed, hatred, and delusion." ~ Wikipedia

Hans Kanters

Interesting insight into its mysterious origins in the comments.

Marsha Gee, Peanut Duck

The 100 best novels: an introduction Robert McCrum introduces our definitive list of the greatest novels written in English, a 100-week project that begins tomorrow with John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress

The 100 greatest novels of all time: The 2003 list

Smog, Rock Bottom Riser

Jeremy Mann, The Forgotten (Version One - Abandon), 2012