micro world. macro beauty.

THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement.  Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification. Klaus Kemp has devoted…

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Whistle Kites

After visiting the kite museum in Weifang (China) last winter, a small obsession with nantong kites begun. As it is growing, the research into [making] them produced this little jewel today “The spectacular kites made in the Nantong countryside are simple structures, but wonderful to see and hear. They are built to carry large and…

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