This image was taken for the education of children in the passport vacation. This is a training organized by the specimen at the University of Lausanne. Courtesy of Mr. Mucciolo Antonio , University of Lausanne Image Details Instrument used: Quanta SEM Magnification: 2363 Horizontal Field Width: 53.7 Vacuum: LFD Voltage: 8.3 Spot: 5 Working Distance: 11.1 Detector: BSE
My non-structured reading group is reading one of Richard's selections this month - Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec. The original intention was to post this Friday, the last day of April, but several of us have decided it...
“To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a critical moment of sensation or release.” Cy Twombly, 1957 Cy Twombly’s desk (P...
Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented in the 1680s at the court of Louis XIV. Its author, Raoul-Auger Feuillet, was maître de danse of the French King. In 1704 another maître de danse, Pierre Beauchamp, filed a formal complaint, arguing that Feuillet had taken credit for what was in fact Beauchamp’s invention. The system, which survived in modified forms into the 1780s, is now known as Beauchamp-Feuillet notation. It indicates the placement of the feet and six basic leg movements: plié, releveé, sauté, cabriole, tombé,
We don't all to do it with our kids, but whether it's counting up or down, a whole friggin' lot of us parents have. "I'm going to count to three!" As with everything having to do with kids, results will vary wildly for this disciplinary time bomb. Some kids are "you had... #funny #kids #parenting
I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition of the early years of Keith Haring, one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century at the Brooklyn Museum last week. There you can visit the period where he moved to NY and started his studio practice. It’s amazing to see how crazy, young and […]
D. Libeskind, Micromegas, 1981. One of the greatest architectural drawings in line. Even though I am best known for my drawings, and have spent many years as a teacher of architects, I have never t…
Ever wondered who lived in your home before you? Or having trouble finding great-grandparents in old census records? If you are so inclined, and want to search the census by address, to see who lived in your American house many moons ago, this post explains how you can do that. Even better, all the information is available online for free. You will need an address...
Dr. Andrew Stephenson's Map of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Download the full res pdf from Dr. Stephenson's site here . (Thanks to the Leiter Reports for originally linking to this)
Words have a habit of taking on different meanings and associations from different circumstances or points of view. Becoming a parent isn't just a change, it's massive reconstructive surgery for your life. "Disposable" is just one of the words with multiple definitions and... #diapers #funny #poop
Attempt by an Alaska-Eskimo shaman – who was converted to christianity – to translate the bible into his tribe’s native script, from the second half of the 19th century. Biblical names are in English/Latin script, as there was no equivalent. This page appears to be from Genesis 19, about the two angels who visited Lot, before Sodom and Gomorrah were destructed. From the collection of the Museum der Kulturen Basel, on display at the Basel Paper Mill, Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing.
Paper, color pencil, pigments, beeswax, fiberglass mesh and wood
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