crystal

Mandala of the triangle

 

 

“My family is like that. We’re all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we’re beautiful. When it’s dark, nothing shines, and it’s a rock.” – Olesya Rulin

Credits: Spencer Sterling/Automata Graphics and Tumblr via imgur, imgur, Gabriel Guevara, Vetores and Pinterest, BrainyQuote

The dark crystal

 

Just now finished watching the film The Dark Crystal (1982). With its Gelflings, Mystics and Skekses, peculiar creatures, lightness and darkness, and a grotesque rocky castle, this old GIF from the decade afterwards is strikingly resonant.

Credits: Satanist Connection via GifCities and Internet Archive

Technological mayhem down the drain

 

Elements of technology, from CDs and chat to a whole laptop, are sucked into a strange vortex manipulated by an ancient ghost crystal owned by a coding Linux penguin. Technology – it can be mind-opening and a quagmire of confusion too.

Credits: Vijay Shah and Blingee

A snowflake growing

 

Ice crystals can act like seeds in the right conditions. As the temperature drops, they spread into the surrounding water and expand outwards. This post was inspired by another one by blogger Rashmi of ‘Rashminotes‘. Artwork by GIF artist Konczakowski.

Credits: Konczakowski and Tumblr via Giphy.

The shell of the glass star

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila

 

Credits: Tumblr via Fatma Özsezer, GIFS to share. GIFS à partager. and Facebook, BrainyQuote