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Windswept by Charles Sowers 

Art installation fixed outside a gallery’s wall, displaying natural flow and turbulence of the wind - via dezeen:

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.

The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall. As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building.

“Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon,” said Sowers. “Windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction.”

You can find out more at Dezeen here, with photos and a video of the work in action.

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my closet is perfect and I know no one cares but I just needed to document that for at least one day, my closet was perfect.

Dahlia, Crimson, Vermilion and Cardinal is the color palette for Vera Wang’s Spring 2013 collection, and it is breathtaking! Always presenting the bridal world with something exciting and new, Vera Wang changes the look of the traditional “wedding gown”. We loved her dark, dramatic, yet eerily romantic black wedding gowns of her Fall 2012 collection, but the vibrant, rich reds in this collection has made me at a loss of words to describe how gorgeous….I will just let the dresses speak for themselves. They will do a much better job.

the colors, duke ! the colors !

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 Straw-colored Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum)

First off I just want to say how much I love this picture. Anyhoo, a little about the species! As their name suggest, these African bats feed on fruit- and they undertake quite a journey to find enough to fill their quotia. The bats follow the annual rains north through sub-Saharan Africa before returning south at the end of the rainy season. Their extensive migration takes them hundreds of miles. Along the way, they spend the day in large, noisy colonies in tree roosts.

At night they leave their roosts and venture out to find fruit, where the colony doesn’t stay as closely packed as they do when roosting. The giant population of straw-colored fruit bats play a key roll in pollinating and dispersing the seeds of many plants. Just another example of how everything in nature is connected!

Photo credits to Kieran Dodds. 

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Quick vector - Grey Heron. (Taken with Instagram)

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