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Saw this last night, can’t believe it’s taken me until now to watch it. Amazing film. I recommend anybody who hasn’t seen it to do so.

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Easy scrollable selection here. Website associated with the collection can be found here, and information on how the photographer, Prokudin-Gorskii, took the photographs and how these colour images were made possible is available here.

No idea who took this, but I love it.

More here.

…a proverb indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which therefore has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy.

- Wikipedia

..the project is far from being a mere architectural reproduction. The great volume is in fact designed to be a sculpture made up of different materials serving a different purpose; and yet given its positioning in the light of the global events and unrest of recent years, the work is full of the tension resulting from its being an object linked to the traditions of modern Western art, one that searches for a primordial form going beyond the natural image, and the reflection of a place of worship for millions of Muslims. This mystic tension is where the object and space come together, and where perhaps two different worlds might find common ground.

http://www.postmedia.net/08/Gregor_Schneider.htm