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mononymic: Born in 1976, Hiromix rose to fame in Japan after winning the 11th New Cosmos of Photography (写真新世紀, Shashin Shin-seiki) award, hosted by the photographic manufacturer Canon, in March 1995. Hiromix was nominated by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s best known photographers, for a series of photographs called Seventeen Girl Days. Through her provocative photographs depicting the life from a teenager’s perspective, Hiromix became a media sensation and pop cultural icon in Japan. “Seemingly overnight, Hiromix had become the nation’s youngest and hottest commercial photographer. The Japanese have always had a thing with cameras but not until the emergence of Hiromix and a new generation of camerawomen did the relationship turn cozy. Photography had been male territory, staked out by super-serious artists like fashion photographer Kazumi Kurigami or the undisputed master Ken Domon, who spent most of his career shooting Buddha statues. Women were expected to be on the other side of the lens, to pose and generate sufficient artistic aura. What female photographers there were followed the rules, based on a strict master-apprentice system. Fledglings fetched, carried and swept, besides mastering the technical jargon and lighting all for at least three years before getting permission to look through the sacred lens. Hiromix sidestepped all that, most likely in her red spike heels. She had never taken a course, never studied with anyone and wouldn’t know a print dryer if she fell over it. She admitted freely that she didn’t know what a strobe looked like but ‘it doesn’t matter because my camera flashes automatically!’” Shoji, Kaori. “Young Women Behind the Camera Craze in Tokyo.” International Herald Tribune. International Herald Tribune, 16 Jan. 1999.

notsureabouttheformer: You’re Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean. What Does It See? Whales, unlike nocturnal rodents or ourselves, see the world in monochrome. Leo Peichl at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research co-authored a paper with the nearly tragic title, “For whales and seals the ocean is not blue.” Indeed, the first thing that we can know for sure about how whales see the world is that it exists only in shades of gray. The water we see as blue they would see as black. “They do want to see the background. They want to see animals on the background. And the animals on the background are reflecting light that’s not blue,” Johnsen explained. If we try to imagine what that might look like, Johnsen said perhaps we could picture a grayscale photograph of people wearing fluorescent clothes under a black light. (More)

eatsleepdraw: Cat plant.

Peaceful days. by karin.* on Flickr.

cross-connect: (by sannah kvist)

betype: Hand drawn type. A smooth sea

hypergif: revisiting one of my oldest gifs with a new spin