No Stars Tonight

I like light that’s thick, that’s viscous. There’s nothing light about it. It is heavy. It drips on you like syrup, spreads like butter, shines like gold.

moodboard: natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812

This enormous diamond glows in the dark.

At 187 carats, the Foxfire diamond isn’t the only diamond that glows under UV light. What’s intriguing to our scientists is how it continues to emit an eerie glow—first orange and then white—for minutes after the light is turned off.

I think I could watch dust forever.

The bacchanal

“It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bellowing in the dark. The river ran white. It was like a film in fast motion, the moon waxing and waning, clouds rushing across the sky. Vines grew from the ground so fast they twined up the trees like snakes; seasons passing in the wink of an eye, entire years for all I know…I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it’s not at all. Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no “I”…as if the universe expands to fill the boundary of the self.“