TeenAngster

TeenAngster

Antique Jewelry

I’ve been obsessed with antique jewelry mecca Erie Basin for what seems like forever—really, the last ten years or so. Owner Russell Whitmore’s line of eclectic, modern-meets-vintage jewelry—built around antique gemstones he’s collected—is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The combinations are unexpected and the pieces are oddly timeless. I want.

The Half-Finished Heaven

Despondency breaks off its course.

Anguish breaks off its course.

The vulture breaks off its flight.

The eager light streams out,

even the ghosts take a draught.

And our paintings see daylight,

our red beasts of the ice-age studios.

Everything begins to look around.

We walk in the sun in hundreds.

Each man is a half-open door

leading to a room for everyone.

The endless ground under us.

The water is shining among the trees.

The lake is a window into the earth.

—Tomas Tranströmer

“I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils.” These are words published nearly 25 years ago by American artist and AIDS activist Zoe Leonard in her poem, “I Want A Dyke For President.” Who better to read Leonard’s seminal call to arms than queer artist and activist Mykki Blanco?

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Anti-Victim Device (AVD):

A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a spark of individuality burning inside: 1940s retro ties and earrings (on men), feminist buttons, nose rings (women), and the now almost completely extinct teeny weeny ‘rattail’ haircut (both sexes).

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Moon sand collected from the Sea of Tranquility. Magnified 520 times.

“Moon sand is the most amazing sand that I’ve looked at,” biologist Gary Greenberg says. Lunar sand is made of minerals also found on Earth, but because there’s no atmosphere, liquid water, or wind, “there’s no traditional or conventional way in which [moon] sand erodes,” he says, so it looks “very, very different” than anything found on our planet.

Greenberg estimates that the crystal in the photo above formed on the moon somewhere around four billion years ago. “If there was a crystal like that on Earth four billion years ago,” he says, “it would have completely eroded away.”

“Northern Ireland’s Dark Hedges have been grown to create a natural tunnel that looks like the gateway to some mysterious adventure. The rows of beech trees that make up the hedges were planted by an 18th-century family as a lead-up to their estate, but have grown into a hauntingly atmospheric forest fit for fantasy.”

You might recognize this forest lane from Game of Thrones. I love seeing how different photographers have captured it over the years; it really makes me think of the foreboding woods of Grimm’s fairy tales.

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