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shaunkardinal: Ten more embroidered postcards from my...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:46 -0400

Ten more embroidered postcards from my latest Coordination series…

All 42 available now in the shop!

staceythinx: Vintage science stuff looks even cooler when...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:35:55 -0400

Vintage science stuff looks even cooler when etched in metal. You can find these copper and zinc pieces in the Copper Leaf Studios Etsy store.

itsalwayssunnyinasgard: I doodled a thing. [x]

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:34:55 -0400

itsalwayssunnyinasgard:

I doodled a thing. [x]

wnycradiolab: kateoplis: Reiner Riedler’s shots of original...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:28 -0400

wnycradiolab:

kateoplis:

Reiner Riedler’s shots of original filmrolls from The Deutsche Kinemathek

The Unseen

Get it while it lasts, folks. The movies of the future will be all digital, all the time.

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:55 -0400

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:18:21 -0400

ianbrooks: Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon It’s always...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:24:32 -0400

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Movie Hipster Kits by Alizée Lafon

It’s always important to pack the bare essentials when it comes to cult classic movies. Alizee’s Movie Hipster Kit series distills several iconic films into their most memorable props, telling the story in just a few simple inanimate objects. You can request a print at her curioos page.

Artist: Behance / Tumblr / Twitter

maphugger: Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010) One of the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:10:40 -0400

maphugger:

Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010)

One of the coolest concepts in thematic cartography is the statistical surface: the act of representing numerical data as a 3D landscape.

Reynolds’ cardboard sculpture of London obliterates the city’s physical terrain and replaces it with one derived from crime data. The result is a mountainous and desolate landscape, one that offers a potentially more realistic representation of the hostilities of the urban experience.

bookriot: This sculpture at Harvard’s Houghton Library is made...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:24:25 -0400

bookriot:

This sculpture at Harvard’s Houghton Library is made from more than 4,000 books and has caused something of a scandal. More on scandalous works of library art here.

The first edition presentation copy of Mary Shelley’s...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:21:53 -0400

The first edition presentation copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), given by her to Lord Byron, with her autograph inscription on the front flyleaf.

exhibition-ism: Corneila Konrads

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:38:55 -0400

exhibition-ism:

Corneila Konrads

un: travelingcolors: Floating Ripple Vases (by...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:35:52 -0400

un:

travelingcolors:

Floating Ripple Vases (by oodesign)

Fill your favorite container with water and float the vase. According to the movement of the air, the plants change their position within the container.

i know, you already saw this on Pintrest

farewell-kingdom: Boarding School is a brother sister team from...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:28:50 -0400

farewell-kingdom:

Boarding School is a brother sister team from Seattle & Maine. We find recycled wood and create beautiful finished boards which are bound into journals, books, and albums (via).

threadless: Currently, The Fox & The Hidden Rabbit by...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:28:35 -0400

threadless:

Currently, The Fox & The Hidden Rabbit by weird&co is the highest scoring design in our ongoing Threadless design challenge!

Check out all of the other great artwork up for scoring!

ianbrooks: Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley Happy...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:28:22 -0400

ianbrooks:

Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley

Happy Cthulhu Cthursday, errybody! Prints available for purchase at bigcartel.

Artist: Website / Tumblr

fuckyeahvictorians: steampunktendencies: The Gentleman’s...

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:50:06 -0400

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

Steampunk Tendencies | The Gentleman's Surprise Chair

fuckyeahvictorians:

steampunktendencies:

The Gentleman’s Surprise Chair (Circa 1880)

oh god i need dis

matteoricci: Kunyu Wanguo Quantu Matteo Ricci’s complete map of...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:46:41 -0400

matteoricci:

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

Matteo Ricci’s complete map of all the nations of the world from 1602.

The map (Chinese 坤輿萬國全圖, pinyin: Kūnyú Wànguó Quántú which literally means A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World) was printed at the request of the Wanli Emperor. It is a xylograph (wood block print) on six panels of fine native paper (made with bamboo fiber), in all measuring approximately 182 x 365 cm. The large scale, Ricci explained, let the viewer “travel about, as it were, while reclining at ease in his own study.”

Li Zhizao (1565-1630), a Chinese mathematician, astronomer and geographer, was the cartographer who engraved the map, it took him and his assistants an entire year to carve the wood blocks! The first versions of the map were printed by Zhang Wentao of Hangzhou, possibly an official printer of the Ming court. Although printed in great quantities, today only six complete examples are known to exist.

Ricci’s monumental work is as elusive as it is legendary. Popularly called The Impossible Black Tulip because of its rarity, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the World, it is the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas. To create it, Ricci resourcefully drew from both Western and Eastern cartographic traditions. He relied on 16th-century Dutch atlases, and also consulted Chinese scholars just as he made use of Chinese maps and land surveys. As the map was completed one year after Ricci was allowed to roam in the Forbidden City, he most likely had access to a copy of Zheng He’s map in the imperial archive. For Ming period Chinese to know the comparative size of the three largest oceans (Pacific, Atlantic and Indian) and draw the map, they must have circumnavigated and returned safely. It is thus beyond reasonable doubt that Ricci actually uncovered and redrew a Chinese world map of Zheng He’s era (1405-1433), proving that Chinese were the first to start the Great Discovery Age.

The main map shows an oval shaped world map, and includes insets of astronomical and seasonal maps. On top right is “Seventh Heaven” chart; on bottom right is “Armillary sphere”; on top left is a map of “Northern Hemisphere”, “Solar and Lunar Eclipse” chart; and on bottom left is a map of “Southern Hemisphere”, map of “Chinese 24 seasonal segments calendar” and “Quantity-day ruler”.

Wikipedia has a good account of the entire history of the original and the derived copies here. Interesting academic on-line discussions on the origins here and here.

1. Version of the map attributed to Giulio Aleni, 1620 @ Vatican Apostolic Library Collection, see here

2. Version of the 1602 map belonging to James Ford Bell Trust

3. The James Ford Bell Trust map exhibited @ University of Minnesota, good optical exploration tool here

4. Small scale north polar projection map at the top of the first left panel

5. Copy of the Giulio Aleni version, 1620’s

6. Version of the original map created by Li Yingshi in 1603 @ Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang.

7. Unattributed two page colored Japanese copy of the original, from 1604.

penamerican: How the priceless manuscripts in Timbuktu were...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:40:54 -0400

penamerican:

How the priceless manuscripts in Timbuktu were saved from destruction

“Abba al-Hadi could not read any of the priceless manuscripts he gingerly placed into empty rice sacks each evening last August before spiriting them through Timbuktu’s darkening streets. The wiry septuagenarian had never learned to read or write but, having spent four decades working as a guard at the Ahmed Baba Institute, a state-run body responsible for the restoration and preservation of much of this storied town’s written heritage, he was all too aware of the value of the brittle pages bound in leather cases.

…

“For Abdoulaye Cissé and other guardians of Timbuktu’s heritage, the fact the crumbling manuscripts were almost lost forever has served to further reinforce their importance. Cissé points out that the books, which document so much about life as it was lived during Timbuktu’s rise and fall over centuries, challenge the notion that Africa’s history was exclusively oral until the arrival of European colonialists.

“‘These manuscripts are important not just for Timbuktu to remember its history but also to remind the world that Africa has a rich, written history contrary to what some once believed,’ says Cissé. ‘Losing even a fraction is a tragedy.’”

incidentalcomics: Rules for Freelancers A comic for Red Lemon...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:38:39 -0400

incidentalcomics:

Rules for Freelancers

A comic for Red Lemon Club.

theculturecreative: You Owe Me A Feeling: Friedrich Kunath

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:44:52 -0400

theculturecreative:

You Owe Me A Feeling: Friedrich Kunath