#trees

#trees

In her visual art, Shlaina filmmaker, best-selling author, and creator of the Webby Award (which, incidentally, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year)is best known for challenging conceptions of patriarchy, colonialism, and the passage of time. In his, Goldbergprofessor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Ambidextrous Robotics and the Moxie Instituteis best known for visualizing ideas through telerobotics, automation, and AI.

Their trunks were as tall and straight as ship masts. Who knows how old they were, but I'm guessing they were planted when the house was built in the 1920s. By the time I was a boy, their tops towered high above the roof. We played endlessly beneath the cover of these pines, twirling madly on a single rope swing attached to one especially formidable branch.

Nadav Kander is a Kentish Town-based photographer who is well known for his moody, atmospheric photographs. Scratch that, he's the man behind some of my most beloved photographs of artists, such as David Lynch, Adam Pearson, Benicio Del Toro and other magnetic subjects, in which his photographic eye for light and darkness pulls powerful auras from the celebrity faces we have seen thousands of times.

The magnificent cedar tree from Lebanon, dating back to the 1720s, starred in The Beatles' 1966 music video for 'Rain', where the Fab Four filmed sitting on its branches.