“Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen. Always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisel of other people, this analysis of other people’s motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.”

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (Rembrandt)

“But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into other things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know nothing of our intellectual problems.”

Check out the detail images he posted here and here.

Look very close and you will see a little dancing smoke-person on the pipe!

Check out Yaroslav’s Flickr photostream.

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2. Paulina Czak
   
3. Malachi Ward
   
4. Redmer Hoekstra
   
5. Ivan