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Leon Bakst’s costume designs for Alexander Tcherepnin’s Narcisse, 1911.
Art by Ahad
december of 1849, john whipple made his first photograph of the moon, a daguerreotype taken through the telescope at the harvard college observatory in cambridge. although he did not make the first lunar photograph in america, in terms of accuracy and aesthetics whipple soon began to produce what were internationally recognized as the most sublime photographs of the moon. this study, made with his partner james black, recalls the maxim in astronomy: the more clearly one can see an object in space, the more beautiful it looks.
'the moon,' salted paper print from glass negative; james thomas whipple and james wallace black, american c. 1857-60.
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Nordic musical instruments: hummel, key harp, langeleik, and kantele; from Nordiska museet Bilder af utställda föremål. Full text here.
Reblogged archipithecus
Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.
