Visions of Old Kathmandu - What Was Lost (1976)
St. Louis Modern Architecture
amorbidwitch: “ Allegorical Representation, Anonymous; ca. XV Century ”
Years before the Apollo 11 mission, and well before the release of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” fashion designer Pierre Cardin was actively imagining life on the galactic frontier.
Pictura of Bèze, Théodore de: Vrais Pourtraits (1581): Comme les vipereaux vont rongeant
Holbein's series of action-packed scenes in which Death intrudes on the everyday lives of people from various levels of society — from pope to physician to ploughman.
Printer’s Mark of Sébastien Gryphe (1492-1556) showing a griffin. Gryphe was a German-born printer and bookseller in Lyon.
The Mantegna Tarocchi, also known as the Tarocchi Cards, Tarocchi in the style of Mantegna, Baldini Cards, are two different sets each of fifty 15th-century Italian old master prints in engraving, …
Photography, Behance Mobile
Sea monster in the form of an elephant, facing right. German, about 1610.
The first centennial of one of the worst science fiction novels in history is …
For photographer Philotheus Nisch, his chosen medium goes beyond the usual love of capturing a moment in time – he believes photography is at the root of everything. “So many things exist to end up as a photograph,” he remarks, “even a lot of our actions… It happens a lot, that I see things or create certain set-ups that I would like to be eternal. For me, taking a picture of it is the most immediate approach to that issue.”
“Someday, in the comfort of your home, you’ll be able to shop and book electronically, read instantly updated newswires, analyze the performance of a stock that interests you, send electronic mail across the country, then play Bridge with three strangers in LA, Chic
Together, Junya Suzuki and Reiko Sakuma make up Chloma, an up-and-coming fashion design duo that blend haute couture with cyborg internet culture. For their most recent collection they’ve turned to fatal errors for inspiration. That is, virtual fatal errors. Titled “Blue Screen of Death,” the collection debuted last month in Tokyo but also online (of […]
Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and into everyday life. Despite headline results about quantum computers solving problems impossible for classical computers, technical challenges are standing in the way of getting quantum physics into the real world. New research published in Nature Communications from teams at Aalto University and Lund University could provide an important tool in this quest.
