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Alessia Iannetti was born in 1985 in Carrara (Italy), where she still lives and works. She enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, majoring in Painting conducted by Omar Galliani and Fabio Sciortino. Her work, characterized by an illustrative style, is nourished by poetic elements, the artist prefers the classical drawing technique, creating an encounter of hyperrealism of subjects, details and a surreal dimension where female characters, evanescent as spirits, reign in a space between infancy and adulthood.

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Red squirrel/ekorre.

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Artist Alexandra Iliescu

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Plan the difficult when it is easy, handle the big where it is small. Taste without savoring. Magnify the small, increase the few. Repay ill-will with kindness. The rivers and streams lead the hundred streams because they are skillful at staying low. =^.^=  http://youtube.com/user/GalaxyGarden

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Guess who has his best colors on? This boy will never cease to amaze me with how vibrant he is after he sheds.

On Surreal Sunday remote landscapes in Norway are illuminated by the dreamlike installations created by Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen, who uses desk, wall, and table lamps to illuminate individual trees, sections of forest, and other rural areas.

“It is not as much photography as it is about sculpture and installation,” says Guneriussen in an artist statement. “…This process involves the object, story, space and most important the time it is made within. It is an approach to the balance between nature and human culture, and all the sublevels of our own existence.”

Visit Rune Guneriussen’s website or Facebook page to check out more of his artwork, including installations created using books and other everyday objects.

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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” ~ William Hazlitt

by Pinka Design

Birds of a Feather

Fantastic news about a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, who lives on Midway Atoll in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Wisdom is officially the oldest living marine bird, at least 62 years of age and first banded by wildlife officials in 1956. She survived the tsunami in 2010 that devastated Midway. And now (drumroll, please!) she is caring for what is at least the 30th chick she’s hatched and reared in her long, productive life.

There’s a slim possibility that she’s related to our own Laysan albatross, Makana (pictured above). Like Wisdom, Makana comes from Midway Atoll. She came to the Aquarium in 2006 after she injured her wing when she fledged. She’s been an incredible ambassador for her species and is — as far as we know — the only albatross at any aquarium or zoo in the world.

In daily public programs at the Kelp Forest exhibit, we introduce visitors to Makana. There, we share stories about the epic annual migrations Laysan albatross make (50,000 miles!) and about the threats they face in the wild — from plastic pollution and commercial fishing gear.

Globally 18 of the 22 species of albatross are threatened with extinction. Makana and Wisdom — each in their own way — are contributing to the survival and recovery of these remarkable birds.

We wish them long and healthy lives!

'If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.' ~ Vijali Hamilton

'Honour the space between no longer and not yet.' ~ Nancy Levin ♥ * Ɓ℮ĿĪ℮Ɣ℮ Ї ᾔ ḾѦḠЇ℃ * <3 El Niño Accelerator List ☀

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Q. Cassetti

‘Bee Goddess’

From A Pursuit of Bees

Support Great Apes in 2012: See "Betty White Meets Koko" http://www.koko.org/ Gorilla Foundation

Gorilla on Rock (by: Hasted Kraeutler)