luzfosca:

Angelo (Funk Pál)

Részegek utcája, 1928

life:

On the 40th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, LIFE.com celebrates the master’s career with a series of pictures made by photographer Gjon Mili over roughly two decades in the middle part of the last century.

(Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

theoddmentemporium:

‘The Circus’

A circus scene made from cloth by an eight-year-old Queen Elizabeth II (1934)

discoverynews:

likeafieldmouse:

Alejandro Guijarro - Momentum (2010-12)

“The artist travelled to the great quantum mechanics institutions of the world and, using a large-format camera, photographed blackboards as he found them. Momentum displayed the photographs in life-size. 

Before he walked into a lecture hall Guijarro had no idea what he might find. He began by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall was included, the blackboard frame was removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. Effectively these are documents. Yet once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Color comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.”

1. Cambridge (2011)

2. Stanford (2012)

3. Berkeley I (2012)

4. Berkeley II (2012)

5. Oxford (2011)

i guess my teacher was right… math is art.

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

victimize:

“The Body,” a series by Alan Herbert

This is produced by a hand drawn photogram on top of a medium format photo.

(via jewahl)

hominisaevum:

Guinea pigs were exotic pets during the Renaissance

picture 1: Detail of The Garden of Eden by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

picture 2: Detail of The entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

(via estebe)

discoverynews:

Mona Lisa’s Skeleton Found?

A complete skeleton was found buried beneath the floor of an abandoned nunnery in Florence, Italy, which might belong to Lisa Gherardini — believed to be the inspiration for the painting.

keep reading

Top photo: Da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa. Credit: Corbis.

Bottom photo: The now derelict Convent of St. Ursula in Florence, Italy. Credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.

hyperallergic:

Statuesque! Manhattan’s Most Popular Public Art

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Nicolas Feldmeyer. Untitled (Woven Portico), 2012.

http://feldmeyer.ch/

photojojo:

Who’d have known your stomach could double as a camera?

Two UK students, Josh Lake and Luke Evans, ate 35mm film and were able to process photos after the film, erm, came out!

Students Make Photos by Eating 35mm Film

explore-blog:

Happy birthday, Miles Davis! The jazz legend would have been 85 today – celebrate with this minimalist illustrated portrait by artist Jorge Arevalo.

Erről tegnap megfeledkeztem.

És nem 85, hanem 86 éves volt. Sebaj.

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

MeerSau.

On Tumblr: http://meersau.tumblr.com/

fluxmachine:

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Martin Bahrija. Lamp.

British designer Martin Bahrija Unveils “Lamp With Possibility of light intensity modulation. A lamp that unfolds and closes to vary the light intensity. Poetic and organic at once, and between jellyfish umbrella.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Speirs and Major. Usher Hall, Edinburgh.

http://www.speirsandmajor.com/