January 2010
1 post
Dandyism ou Barbarie
Blogging over here now ————-> Dandyism ou Barbarie
November 2009
3 posts
Pickled Snakes
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/evidence-of-evolution
Spirit
The rover is still stuck but:
Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19).
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/spotlight/20091119a.html
October 2009
2 posts
Portrait of a Lady - Peter Christus, 1470
The Relativity of the Stone and Other Ages
From flickr
“These were on display in the National Museum. They’re made from the glass insulators on the top of power poles, in the very recent past, in the top end of Australia. “
September 2009
4 posts
The Robber Bridegroom - Listen to this horrifying...
The Temptation of St. Anthony - Matthias Grünewald
From the The Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1512 and 1516.
Click to enlarge.
Detail:
I paid for it with my eyes.
I downloaded every episode of 30 Rock, Madmen, and Fringe.
I used The Pirate Bay to do it.
I shared my bandwidth and hosted these files for others to download.
It was illegal.
I watched the shows.
There were many examples of product placement in almost every episode.
I recently bought some things at stores.
There, let’s call it even.
Design from Scandinavia
withdrawnfromcollection:
August 2009
1 post
I Have Good English
Russian Brides and the Men Who Love Them
All photos borrowed from http://bride.ru/
Rorschach Blots
The ten inkblots of the Rorschach test printed in Rorschach’s Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates (Hogrefe, 1927):
Plate 1:
Plate 2:
Plate 3:
Plate 4:
Plate 5:
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Plate 9:
Plate 10:
July 2009
6 posts
The Might of Mites
This is a scabies mite:
The female mite lays her eggs on the skin of a human, causing a reaction and inflammation. This is exacerbated when the mother begins burying the eggs under the skin causing intense itching
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Face Mites! These live on your face and inside hair follicules and on your eyelashes:
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Dust Mites. They live in your pillow:
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And now...
The Will of Seeds, part 2
From “Fruit” by Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler
Japanese fear of giant monsters to become...
Japanese researchers monitoring the activity of giant jellyfish in Chinese waters are warning of a potentially historic and catastrophic invasion this year.
— PinkTentacle.com
Military VR -- Still clunky, but looks like fun.
New from LaserShot Inc of Houston Texas — The Convoy Skills Training System (click image below for video demonstration):
Below are screenshots of Virtual Battlefield 2, a videogame used for training by the US military.
Below are some screenshots of MetaVR’s Virtual Afganistan Village:
“This virtual village and its surrounding mountainous terrain give...
June 2009
1 post
We Are The Internet
Check out the pirate bay today:
http://thepiratebay.org/
If you follow the link it takes you to:
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/
“This forum aims to be a secure and reliable way of communication for Iranians and friends. Use it to discuss what is happening in Iran. Post in the forum either anonymously as a guest, as a registered user, or login with your facebook-account. We are not a...
May 2009
8 posts
Rivamonte's Robots
Robots by Mike Rivamonte
Omar Souleyman - "Leh Jani"
I had to post this again. Watch it!
Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. He and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than five-hundred studio and live- recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city.
—Sublime...
Unmarked Electrics
Listen to music here: http://unmarkedelectrics.tumblr.com
Merce Cunningham
I reccomend watching both of these at the same time.
Withdrawn from Collection
My new blog is about books:
Les Chats de Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini was an Argentine surrealist painter. Presented here are pictures of her cats:
- “Le Livre de Leonor Fini” avec la collaboration de José Alvarez. Peintures, dessins, Ecrits, notes de Leonor Fini. Editions Mermoud-Clairefontaine, Vilo Paris. 1975
District9
Click for Trailer
Giornale Nuovo
Wow. I love this defunct blog — A vast archive of eyeball shattering pictures.
April 2009
3 posts
This is real.
Extremeophile Sculptor - Takayuki Takeya
Victimless Leather, a semi-living entity
“I will never forget VL — I shouldn’t have given it a name, I guess, but as it turns out, that is exactly how the artists expected me to react. VL was the small-scale prototype of a “leather” jacket grown in vitro. Like all in-vitro tissue, it was a living layer supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix, only in this case that matrix was shaped like a miniature coat. The artists...
March 2009
2 posts
Time to feed the monks
Into Great Silence (2005):
UNBEKLEIDET MIT AUTO
“UNDRESSED WITH CAR” by Rabea Eipperle
The above is part of a series of photographs of German men standing naked with their cars.
February 2009
11 posts
Inuktitut Fonts
The text above translates as:
“You can download the font package by clicking on the link, currently there are 5 styles of the font, bold, heavy, italic, light and regular.
Once you download the zip file, unzip and place on your computer; go to ‘control panel’ and select fonts, then from there, find the fonts you just downloaded and select them.”
or in romanized...
Enoki Kunuk
From The Wikipedia:
Enoki Kunuk (born 1926) is an 81 year old Inuit hunter who survived for 27 days in the Arctic tundra, from June 1 to June 28, 2007
Kunuk left Igloolik, Nunavut on June 1 to hunt for caribou 100 kilometres north of the hamlet. He left Igloolik with some food, gasoline, warm clothing, a gun, ammunition, tarps, a kamotiq sled, and a snowmobile; however, he had no means of...
“When did you meet [Gottfrid] for the first time IRL?” asked the Prosecutor. “We do not use the expression IRL,” said Peter, “We use AFK.” “IRL?” questioned the judge. “In Real Life,” the Prosecutor explained to the judge. “We do not use that expression,” Peter noted. “Everything is in real life. We use AFK - Away From Keyboard.” “Well,” said Roswall. “It seems I am a little bit out of...
Revolution Era Russia in Color
These color photographs were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The images were produced by taking three separate exposures with different colored filters (RGB).
This is time travel. Give each image several seconds of attention and you’ll be rewarded.
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A Group of Workers Harvesting Tea ca. 1907-1915:
Cotton. In Sukhumi Botanical Garden. ca. 1910:
Work at the...
Warrior Women
Here’s something simply amazing: photographs from the 1930s-40s in color. After you check out these babes, go see The Great Depression in full color!
Thank you Library of Congress.
Masks for Ritual and Dance
From:
Ray, Dorothy Jean (1967). Eskimo Masks: Art and Ceremony. University of Washington Press.
A Beautiful Cruelty
Via: wrongdistance
You really ought go to YouTube and watch this in highquality
The Final Days of Ötzi the Iceman
Wikipedia says:
Ötzi the Iceman is the modern name of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago).The mummy was found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Copper Age Europeans.
By current estimates, at the time...
Rebloged from tumbledore:
This is a recording of...
Our Star - from Another vantage
On May 19, 2005, NASA’s Mars Spirit Rover captured took this gorgeous view as our local star set upon the rim of the Gusev crater on Mars. See more of the best pictures from the last five years of Rover shots here.
Dandyism ou Barbarie:
January 2009
27 posts
Bright, Bright Day
Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky
To all you freaks, don't stop the rock
Gnerdy reblog:
Photographs from Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Extreme Fashion of Russia and Siberia
Reblog from Gnerdy (June 4, 2008)
Photographs from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1902
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They Poured Cement in Ant Colony and then Dug it...
Thanks J!
The Formidable Beauty of Advanced Polymers
Guns by Heckler & Koch GmbH
Smiley Culture - Cockney translation
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Glenn Gould's Chair
If you like this, you should also watch Gould talking about his love of animals in a video that concludes with him singing a portion of Mahler’s Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (St. Antony’s Sermon to the Fishes). Embedding was disabled for the video so you’ll have to head over to YouTube to see it.