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wnyc:

Chemicals can make some pretty stunning art. And GIFs, too! 

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rescuedfilmproject:

Is this real life?

cressus:

     No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal. In his nimble hands it would flatter and stream, quiver and sweat. His figures weep and shout, their torses twist and run, and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation. He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another - marble into trees, leaves, hair, and, of course, flesh.  
     -   Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Bernini

itscolossal:

The Annual ‘Corso Zundert’ Parade Honors Van Gogh with Monumental Floats Adorned with Flowers

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So get this, Jack Kirby provided the costume design for a 1969, UC Santa Cruz production of Julius Cesar.

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Amazing costumes, amazing story.

(Source: io9.com, via hellotailor)

smithsonianlibraries:

The Frank Reade Weekly Magazine was a series of cheap and colorful dime novels published at the turn of the 20th century aimed at a young, predominantly male audience. They spun tales of adventure in exotic settings – often in polar regions—with the inventor hero traveling in futuristic airships and submarines.  

They had great cover art, don’t you think? It seems to always involve a lot of pointing, though.

Inspiring young Victorian minds through sport

Entomology in Sport is an example of a publication aimed at aspiring young Victorian minds. A miniature visual world of insects has been intertwined within the words and paragraphs of this little book. Regardless of your age, you can’t help but be charmed.

The authors are referred to as the ‘Honorable Mrs W’ and ‘Lady M’, which immediately hooks your curiosity. On further investigation, the authorship is given added weight, when it transpires that Mary Ward (1827-1869) was an Irish microscopist, astronomer, naturalist and artist.

discardingimages:

the Beast, the Dragon and the False Prophet

Revelation 16:13 ‘And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet’ (‘Et vidi de ore draconis, et de ore bestiæ, et de ore pseudoprophetæ spiritus tres immundos in modum ranarum’)

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072

BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 184v

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thecreatorsproject:

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