Upside Down Mushrooms
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project
Upside Down Mushrooms by Carsten Höller, the man behind the slides at the Tate Modern.
via horses think
Interchanges
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architecture
The Infrastucturist (try repeating that several times) has catalogued several types of intersection.
My favourite? The trumpet:
Intersections part I & part II
sort of related
Solar Transit
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opticasens
lifted from today and tomorrow:
"This an amazing photo of the solar transit of the space shuttle Atlantis, made by Thierry Legault on May 12th. The duration of the transit was only 0.3 seconds and the shuttle was in orbit at a height of 260 km. You can see another photo of the solar transit of the Atlantis and Hubble telescope together here."
(click on the second picture to see the scale a bit better)
previously: set against the sun
Simon Schubert
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architecture,
paper,
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Simon Schubert created these scenes by delicately folding pieces of paper. His sense of perspective and depth are ridiculous.
See more here.
via Horses Think
Manta Ray
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carrousel,
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illustration
"Known as 'Bertuch's Bilderbuch für Kinder', this rather enlightened 12-volume natural history / science / enthnographic encyclopedia for children was published in instalments between 1790 and 1830."
more images and info at BibliOdyssey
Seaside Pools I
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architecture,
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The coast of North South Wales is littered with Seaside pools that provide a safer place to bathe for the locals. NSW Ocean Baths have a huge flickr profile with close to 1,500 pictures of these. This is a small selection of my favourites.
It is a testament to the photogenic nature of these locations that the (presumed) snapshots shown here are so different from one another yet equally enthralling.The photographer even managed to accidentally capture a rather charming visual poem of sorts.
Perspective
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photography,
project
These photographs by Bernard Voita are not what they seem at first glance. The more you look, the better they get.
via today and tomorrow/colectiva
The Raymond Scott Quintette - War Dance For Wooden Indians
The dancing bit is nuts!
Raymond Scott deserves a whole post. Take this as an aperitif.
Bonus ball:
The Phil Harmonics performing Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse", from the 1939 short "The Dipsy Doodler":
What an absolutely brilliant ending.
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay and Richard Kanayan - 16mm screen tests
One for the fans of Truffaut.
The Gastric Brooding Frog
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articles,
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wunderkammer
"The gastric-brooding frogs or Platypus frogs (Rheobatrachus) were a genus of ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s. The genus was unique because it contained the only two known frog species that incubated the prejuvenile stages of their offspring in the stomach of the mother."
via bioephemera
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