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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
32,000 Years Ago
Our ancestors etched their impressions of the world on the walls of caves. They relay their messages to us across almost unfathomable gaps of time:
Today we rely on digital media. Our technology is exponentially more powerful in what it can do in the moment, but it becomes obsolete in no time at all.
Their lives were as ephemeral as ours, but their art has lasted. Will ours?
Via from the Chauvet caves in southern France as filmed by Werner Herzog in Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
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