Creatures

artist: filthy luker

shared by mosaik!!!

See also autoportraits.

Promenade au Palais Royal

Coloured line and stipple-engraved caricature; 3 very corpulent personages, one in uniform, walking together.
'G' (artist), publisher unknown; ~1814.

via BibliOdyssey

Impossible Bubbles

David Goldes. Platonic Solid, II, 2002.

via moonriver

Ingrid Siliakus: The Paper Architect

Ingrid Siliakus' paper art takes it to the next level in complexity and intricacy. I'm particularly fond of her international buildings.

See also Sharon Pazner's paper art.

Kono Michi - When I Don't Come Back

Kono Michi is the song-writing project of Brooklyn-based professional violinist, Michi Wiancko. For the video for "When I Don't Come Back" (lead track of "TheLivingroom Disappearance" EP on Scotland's Shark Batter Records), Michi filmed herself singing the song in a bath of milk! Good enough for Cleopatra? Good enough for Kono Michi.

Then & Now

shared by guil3433

The Now & Then pool on Flickr is a collection of pictures comparing the exact same location as photographed in the past and at present. Very easy to waste spend a lot of time in there. Above, the St-Elisabeth church in the 1970's and as it looked in 2007.

A Minor History of / Giant Spheres

Cabinet Magazine has a minor history of giant spheres, featuring a surprising number of old friends of ours.

War Photography

"Tailings pond of the Petkovici Dam. A mass grave was discovered dug into the earth of the dam and bodies were also thrown into the lake."


This from a fascinating interview with photographer Simon Norfolk at BLDGBLG:

"When I did the first book, it started out with these photojournalistic pictures of genocide in Rwanda – it was about six months after the genocide, and there were 2000 bodies in one church alone. Then I went back in history, looking at other genocides that had taken place: at Auschwitz, where there's bits of evidence lying around, and then back to Namibia in 1905, and then to the Armenian genocide, where there's almost no evidence at all. There, the pictures become pictures of snow and sand, as a metaphor about a covering and a hiding, a new layer, so these evidences become harder and harder to discern and unwrap."

Link.

Red Lantern Jellyfish

From pink tentacle:

"Red paper lanterns, or aka-chochin, are a familiar sight on the city streets of Japan, where they typically hang at the entrances to cheap pubs, capturing the attention of passersby. The ocean, however, is home to a different variety of red paper lantern — an unusual species of deep-sea jellyfish.

Officially named Pandea rubra, the red paper lantern medusa (aka-chochin kurage) was first discovered in the Bering Sea in 1913, but details about its distribution and life cycle have long remained a mystery. In recent years, the creature has caught the eye of researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) armed with high-definition video cameras."

Panorama + Section

"Panorama of London from Westminster to the Tower in a fan-shape, after the panaorama of Thomas Girtin. 1803 - Print made by François Louis Thomas Francia."



"Section of the Rotunda, Leicester Square' IN: 'Plans, and Views in Perspective' by Robert Mitchell 1801."

From this great BibliOdyssey Panorama post.

How walnuts are harvested.

Pruned says:

"A lazy post for a lazy Monday, but hopefully you'll find it interesting. It's a short clip from Our Daily Bread, a feature-length documentary produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

Having never wondered how pecans and walnuts are harvested on an industrial scale and then seeing how it's actually done for the first time, we were quite taken aback. It was as if discovering a new species of marine animal thriving in the violent hydrothermal whirlpools of some deep-oceanic trench — spectacularly ornamented, wondrously strange, marvelous."

Tentacles

great drawing by Candice Tripp

via ektopia

Pins & Needles

It's only when you realise what these are made of that you accept how genius "pins & needles" by Debbie Smyth really is. Link.

Teddy Bear Fetal Development

2007.

Teddy Bear Fetal Development

Felted wool, buttons

7.75" H x 23" W x 3" D, 2007.

by Stephanie Metz

via ektopia

Tune for a cold cold day

Jose Feliciano - California Dreaming

Employee of the Month

Seeing Red

by spy, via ekosystem

Señor X

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Great work by Spanish street artist Señor X.

Goat

shared by wildphotons

"I never did find out how this Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus, managed to get down. I was there for more than an hour and it kept licking away at the mineral in the rock. It was a sheer drop below, there was no apparent way up or sideways."

Maybe it was trying to lick a tunnel through the mountain?


See also this goat.

and the fainting goats, of course.

New From Sam3

Outside Cargo, London.

Gear Heart