Saturday, November 28, 2015
Illustrations by Owen Gent Owen Gent is an award winning...
Illustrations by Owen Gent
Owen Gent is an award winning Illustrator and Designer based in Bristol in the South West of England, who graduated with a first class honours degree from Falmouth University in 2013
Owen continues to work as a freelance artist across a range of areas including publishing, editorial, advertising and personally driven projects.
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Illustrations by Tim DoyleTim Doyle (featured previously) is an...
Illustrations by Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle (featured previously) is an award-winning artist and silk-screen print maker, working out of Austin, Texas. You can see his portfolio on mrdoyle.com and buy prints from him on nakatomiinc.com
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Illustrations by Alice Wellinger Alice Wellinger is an...
Illustrations by Alice Wellinger
Alice Wellinger is an Austrian based artist and illustrator. Beneath her editorial work she develops her personal art, which is surreal, ironic, dealing with the troubles of daily life and childhood memories. Artist activities on Facebook.
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6 Million-Year-Old Growing Rocks That Move
The only place where this geological phenomenon can be seen is a small Romanian village of Consesti. Trovants were spit out during powerful seismic activity which is believed to be around 6 million years old. These weird rocks live on our planet longer than human kind does.
The most interesting fact about these odd stones is that they only grow when water is applied on them. The rocks start their lives as small one-centemeter-long pebbles and can end up to 6-10 meter-long giant. As they get larger, trovants tend to split from their ‘birth mother’ and continue the magical growth process independently. It is assumed that trovants consist of a stone core, with an outer shell of sand.
What is really weird, the sand found in said stones is no any different from an usual sand. So why do they grow? There are many hypothesis like that large amount of minerals in trovants tend expand because of moisture and other factors but none of those presumptions are proved. Yet this really rare phenomenon still keeps one of the most mysterious occurrences in the world of nature.