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natgeofound: Tourists atop the Chicago Tribune building look...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:28 -0600

Tourists atop the Chicago Tribune building look down on the Chicago River, the site of Old Fort Dearborn.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

time-for-maps: Fifty years ago, Jerry Gretzinger began to draw...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:14:25 -0600

time-for-maps:

Fifty years ago, Jerry Gretzinger began to draw a map. He’s still drawing it, having let it grow in the intervening decades to an astounding 2,600 panels covering 2,000 square feet. Current population of the map: 16,304,885 in 27 parishes and 416 cities.
Gretzinger talks about his work in an excellent short documentary. Source.

natgeofound: A couple inspects a beach house destroyed after a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:38 -0600

natgeofound:

A couple inspects a beach house destroyed after a storm in March 1962.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

Conrad Shawcross: Slow Arc Inside A Cube IV, 2009. At Hayward...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:18:55 -0600

Conrad Shawcross: Slow Arc Inside A Cube IV, 2009. At Hayward Gallery, London, 30 January - 28 April 2013.

natgeofound: Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel kissing within a...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:53:36 -0600

natgeofound:

Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel kissing within a tetrahedral kite, October 1903.
Photograph courtesy Library of Congress

North Korea via Instagram, by David Guttenfelder, chief Asia...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:35:00 -0600

North Korea via Instagram, by David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for the Associated Press wire service.

sfmoma: markcareaga: Lebbeus Woods’ Sketchbooks As part of...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:10:37 -0600

sfmoma:

markcareaga:

Lebbeus Woods’ Sketchbooks

As part of what must be an extraordinary exhibit of the late architect’s work, SFMOMA is sharing selected pages from his sketchbooks on their tumblr site (see below).

First spotted: chabelidecyc

Source for all images: sfmoma with some color correction by markcareaga

Credits for all images: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 195; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund Purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y).

Reminder that you can browse all of the pages we’ve shared so far here, and to stay tuned daily for new pages from Lebbeus Woods’s sketchbooks through the run of the exhibition!

thejaymo: Flying over the Tulips Fields in Anna Paulowna it...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:21:47 -0600

thejaymo:

Flying over the Tulips Fields in Anna Paulowna

it looks like the earth corrupted and stopped rendering correctly

mythologyofblue: Birds-Eye View from Summit of Mt. Washington;...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:18:42 -0600

mythologyofblue:

Birds-Eye View from Summit of Mt. Washington; White Mountains, New Hampshire. [c. 1902 By Geo. H. Walker & Co. Boston.]

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markrichardson: One of my favorite album covers. Music isn’t...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:24:52 -0600

markrichardson:

One of my favorite album covers. Music isn’t bad either.

Violinist Jascha Heifetz playing in Mili’s darkened studio as...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:20:07 -0600

Violinist Jascha Heifetz playing in Mili’s darkened studio as light attached to his bow traces the bow movement.

Photo by Gjon Mili, 1952 - LIFE archive

Plot paths of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, by Andrew DeGraff,...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:39:48 -0600

Plot paths of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, by Andrew DeGraff, from his current show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

The Dress - Jesse Treece, 2012.

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:27:00 -0600

The Dress - Jesse Treece, 2012.

tumblropenarts: www.amberrowe.com (it’s a tumblr)

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:10:47 -0600

tumblropenarts:

www.amberrowe.com (it’s a tumblr)

themorningnews: Google Maps’ Street View function transformed...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:06:14 -0600

themorningnews:

Google Maps’ Street View function transformed into abstract paintings.

“Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Monkees,...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:58:21 -0600

“Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Monkees, But Where Afraid To Ask” from the April 1967 issue of Tiger Beat. (via the Facing West photostream)

Alexander Graham Bell’s “Siamese Twin” kites, from “Aërial...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:49:06 -0600

Alexander Graham Bell’s “Siamese Twin” kites, from “Aërial Locomotion, With a Few Notes of Progress in the Construction of the Aërodrome,” National Geographic Magazine, January 1907, and Bell’s “Cygnet II,” from Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, February 25, 1909. (via a456)

The 19th-century novel network colored according to...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:39:57 -0600

The 19th-century novel network colored according to author-gender, from “Computing and Visualizing the 19th-Century Literary Genome” (via Digital Humanities 2012)

invisiblestories: Digitization of Hans Meyer’s Across East...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:31:55 -0600

invisiblestories:

Digitization of Hans Meyer’s Across East African Glaciers: an account of the first ascent of Kilimanjaro

(Or, “Glaciers.”)

Fresco of astronauts at the abandoned Soviet military base near...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:50:14 -0600

Fresco of astronauts at the abandoned Soviet military base near Vogelsang, Germany. (via Der Spiegel)