macro micro magic

Von Karman vortices - Alaska

Can you fathom the beauty

of these satellite photos

juxtaposed with the random

microscopic ones?

I'm craving shitake and creminis

after seeing Alaska above.

So gorgeous.

If you're

an artist somehow

stumbling

upon these beauties,

perhaps they will inspire

a painting...let me know!

sperm on surface of human egg

I'll be especially interested

in the title you give to a

painted masterpiece 

inspired by the above

(an original based

on a REPRODUCTION...

get it????)

Confession:

My first response to this one was

RAMEN NOODLES.

I should go eat lunch now.

Lena Delta - Russia

head of Zebra fish

I'm seeing

a teddy bear angel goddess

of electric love.

(Wouldn't this photo be cool

enlarged and hanging in a

posh club?)

This is pretty much the palette

I wanted for my room

as a kid in the 

70's...

WILD, psychedelic, and glow-in-the-dark.

Mom had a slightly different vision

involving a sophisticated

victorian painting

of a girl with a bird

(hated it then, covet it now). 

Syrian Desert - Eastern Mediterranean Coast

This is our home planet!

We live on a lovely lovely

giant blueberry!

source: nationalgeographic.com

art in the universe and in your skull

BIG: Valley of dessert in Iran

These images are not

abstract paintings

or from anyone's imagination.

They are actually

Nasa satellite photos

of the earth I found online.

I have paired them here with

microscopic shots

of structures within the brain

from  a new book

you don't have to be

a neuroscientist to appreciate.

Ever read an astronomy book

and pondered the vastness of the universe

while taking a peek at another book on microbes

or something else invisible to the naked eye?

Do it!

The beauty and artistry of the the big and small blew my mind.

tiny: golgi stain

BIG: glacier icecap

tiny: axon scaffolding proteins

BIG: West fjords

tiny: blood vessels in cerebral cortex

BIG: dry streambeds in Jordan

tiny: axons

BIG: whirlpool cloud between Spain and Morocco

COOL: New book by Carl Schoonover: PORTRAITS OF THE MIND

The planet is gorgeously made,

and you and your lovely

neurons are too.