Jean Cocteau letter to Paul Éluard, 1923

Salvator Rosa, The Witches' Sabbath, c. 1640–1649

Jules Joseph Lefebvre, La Vérité, 1870

Leonora Carrington, Operation Wednesday, 1969

Alfred G. Buckham, Aerial view of Edinburgh, 1920

On Friday, March 30 at 7:13 a.m. PDT, SpaceX successfully launched the Iridium-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This was the fifth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT. The satellites were deployed about an hour after launch.

Herbert Mason, St Paul’s Survives, 29 December 1940

Horst von Harbou, Maschinenmensch from set of Metropolis, c. 1925-1927

Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker, 1979

oh, yes by Bukowski

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

James Valentine, Moray House, Edinburgh, 1850

Charles Nègre, The Vampire, 1853

Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

George Frederic Watts, Hope, 1886

Ludwig van Beethoven, Grosse Fuge

Axel Törneman, Absinthe, 1902

David Roberts, Abu Simbel Temple Of Ramesses II, 1838

The Necks, Sex

Richard van Orley II, The Drunken Silenus, 1618

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up." ~ Stephen Hawking