Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Quote for Today: Julie Orringer
Andras covered her hand with his own and looked up again at the bird’s nest shivering in the rose window. He had seen architectural drawings of this church in its …
Featured Artist: Lori Howe
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome poet, writer and phenomenologist Lori Howe. Lori is one of the creators of the cadralor, a new poetic form consisting of 5 separate stanzaic episodes …
Picturing Healing Energy: Paintings by Agnes Lawrence Pelton
I’ve recently returned to painting and, searching for inspiration, ran across Agnes Pelton’s extraordinary transcendental paintings, images full of energy balanced with a cool serenity. She has quickly become one …
Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
The structure of the house was hierarchical, with my grandfather at the top, but its secret life – the life of pie crusts, clean sheets, the box of rags in …
Storm Structure: Rotating Supercell Near Booker, Texas, Time Lapse by Mike Olbinski
Mike Olbinski is a wedding photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. When he isn’t doing weddings, he’s out chasing storms. Below is a glorious time lapse video of a rotating supercell …
Iimuahii – Structure And Texture
Check out these fascinating avant garde outfits from Elena Slivnyak reblogged from my favorite fashion blog, The Citizens of Fashion. You might remember the outspoken Slivnyak from Project Runway. She …
Weaving the Willow Wand: Baskets of Lise Bech
Lise Bech is a basket maker who creates beautiful and useful objects from organic and sustainable materials, chiefly from various species of Scottish Willow. Each species has its own texture, …
Revealing a Subterranean City: Pouring Cement in an Ant Hill
Scientists wanted a closer look at the subterranean passageways of an ant colony, so they decided to pour cement down an ant hill and then excavate it. Three days and …