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The PG&E Tower, Golden Gate Bridge (Taken with instagram)

Golden Gate Bridge, enveloped in fog (Taken with instagram)

Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving building in San Francisco

Entrancing entranceway, as seen in San Francisco’s Mission District

Food Heaven — Blue Bottle coffee at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Shanghai Expression – stunning vintage Chinese graphic design from the 1920s-1930s, from the book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century.

If I discover a scientific idea, surely someone else would’ve discovered the same idea had I not done so. Whereas, look at Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” — if he didn’t paint “Starry Night,” nobody’s gonna paint “Starry Night.” So, in that regard, the arts are more individual to the creative person than a scientific idea is to the one who comes up with it — but, nonetheless, they are both human activities.

—Neil deGrasse Tyson (via explore-blog)

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Beautiful (but tragic) images of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

An amazing Friday night at Birdland Jazz in Berkeley.

Rothko is one of my favorite artists - his last painting (his life sunset), a study in orange
endpiece:

Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Untitled, 1970. Rothko returned to using color for his final three paintings after two years of painting in only blacks, grays, and browns.

Rothko is one of my favorite artists - his last painting (his life sunset), a study in orange

endpiece:

Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Untitled, 1970. Rothko returned to using color for his final three paintings after two years of painting in only blacks, grays, and browns.