I just love this clip. Two legends, having fun.
A film tracking the daily position of the sun at 12:00 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, through the course of years:In astronomy, an analemma (from Greek ἀνάλημμα "pedestal of a sundial") is a curve ...
Looking up.plant drawingsother equivalentswhat was will be againshaved iceOn Monday: in search of the sun. Happy weekend.Still from Yves Kleins La Revolution Bleue, via Claudette at ROLU.
Jules Janssen (Feb. 24, 1824 to Dec. 23, 1907): French astronomer who, among other things, was known for his 1904 Atlas de photographies solaires: photographic studies of the surface of the sun.1. Ré...
Reproduction of the first daguerrotype of the Sun. The original image was a little over 12 centimeters in diameter. Reproduced from G. De Vaucouleurs, Astronomical Photography, MacMillan, 1961 [...
Eugène Atget: Pendant lEclipse, 1912 (printed later by Berenice Abbott).
Edmund Kesting: Glance to the Sun. 1928.
Photo: Jacques Henri Lartigue, via pianonecktie + all things amazing.Post title: from Junes Coming by John Burroughs.
An amazing story:Virginia Moore holds up the bracelet she gave her husband Marcus before he went off to fight and die in World War II. Marcus Comer was killed in the Battle of the Bulge but the brace...
Via Aileen Kwun. I love the things she posts.
Vanessa Hernandez at work, via the fox is black.
Three glorious days:Vuillard, early and lateDiebenkorn printsChiquita Bananasci-fi moviesstarting some summer readingmostly: relaxingHappy weekend.Sean Higgins: Lando Calrissian, 2009. Via Nathan Abe...
Sometime we see a cloud thats dragonishA vapour sometime like a bear or lion,A towerd citadel, a pendant rock,A forked Mountain, or blue Promontory,With Trees upont, that nod unto the WorldAnd mock o...
During the summers of 1821 and 1822, while living at Hampstead, the English painter John Constable set up his easel at various elevated locales on the Heath and painted oil sketches of clouds, as man...
Charles Broskoski: Photos of clouds with the flash on, 2005. More here.Via i heart photograph.
Photos of clouds from the Allen Aerial Photograph Collection at the Ashmolean Museum:Major George Allen (1891-1940) was one of the first people in Oxfordshire to own an aeroplane - a De Haviland Puss...
Its supposed to rain all week here, so the espadrille element of this outfit is total fantasy (rain + espadrilles = soggy unpleasantness). Still, its been cool enough for coats and jeans and lightwei...
Paule Marrot: Clouds. Design for a textile.Also available here.
Nicholas Roerich: Skyscape, 1912.
Once you get past the intro music, the slow clicking of the dominos is weirdly relaxing. Theres so many that they take forever to topple.
So many things to do:no frontierchairs for kidsballoons + other thingsfloatWilly + BiffI wish I could be in two places at once. Id love to see an annular eclipse.Happy weekend.Image: lennebelle ...
Flowers, and thoughts of flowers, were Miss Foxes main occupation. She didnt especially care for motion pictures; she found them too noisy. She would have liked to have had friends to lend books to a...
1. Charles Aubrey: photograph of flowers ca. 1870. Via all things amazing.2. Adolphe Braun: Wreath: apple blossom, rhododendron, lilies of the valley. Taken ca. 1855; printed ca. 1875.
Lora Schlesinger Gallery: Peter Shires Cups, 1974 - 2012 by Eric Minh Swenson.
Various adventures:books + bagelsimpossible conversationsgame 7Bill Bollingera phone call to momHappy weekend.Photograph from the Arnold Schönberg Center, via Mary Caple.
The fox was philosophical. From the moment he had recognized loveliness he had known it couldnt last. And he returned to fox business.Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox1. Gustave Courbet: The Fox in the Snow. 18...
There was a fantastic tale in The New Yorker a few weeks back about the discovery of legendary riches at the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in India. Two ancient vaults were to be opened. The first ...
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