robot-heart: (via aki˚)
Bettie Page 1950
Why being grumpy can be good for you
It may take more muscles to frown than to...
Dale ODell Untitled, from the Creature series
witchmountain:(via emmacooper)
if you had a beating heart,...
The Strumpet City, 1952 (via)
BLDGBLOG: The Emperor’s CastleHillier’s project is a beautifully realized example of something I’ve long been curious about—for instance, if a book like Ulysses had been “written” not with a typewriter but with a 3D printer, what sort of architectural world might result? The Emperor’s Castle offers at least one possible answer for how literature could be translated directly into urban and architectural space.
Now reverse-engineer this: take a landscape garden somewhere—or an accidental assemblage of parks, buildings, rivers, and homes—and interpret that setting as if it is literature. Do a reverse-Hillier, so to speak: start with the landscape and extract characters and motivated dramatic actions from the objects placed within it.
A visualization of the characters & temporal structure of Mulholland Drive by Michele Margiotta (nervepinch:endlessforms:twentyfoursides)
“The images on this page were all generated using a technique I developed to render the mandelbrot set. It’s important to realize that it is not a different fractal from the mandelbrot set, but simply a different way of displaying it. Clicking on some of the images will take you to a normal rendering of the exact same area, but using the traditional mandelbrot technique. Note that even though the images resemble Hindu art, they were actually generated completely automatically, without any sort of human artistic intervention.”
(click through)
kiyo:
This National Geographic image (via reddit) depicts the record of mankind’s 50 years of space exploration. Take a look at the to-scale map of the solar system along the bottom of the graphic.
The Sexuality Umbrella (aka Foucault’s Wetdream, aka my messy, sloppy infographic for explaining sex, power, and society.)
Japanese drum notation for “Dienst March” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu, 1865. Western Military Drums in Japan.