A set of teasers for Vincent Moon's A Skin, A Night and The National's new album, Boxer.
Actually the entrance to the mosque in Södermalm. Which, to be fair, used to be a power station.
MTWTFSS = Weekday, a sort of ridiculous jeans + tshirts store, where among other things they sell Cheap Monday jeans.
St. Nicholas was the patron saint of sailors.
True of many things in Europe, but it's worth pointing out that this 15th century statue carved from—among other things—oak and elk horn, and depicting the victory of St. George over the Dragon, is older than the United States.
Also that the Dragon apparently has ambiguous genetalia, though I didn't notice that myself—I'm much too polite to be checking out a dragon's junk.
Förböner som iåggs på detta altare bårs fram i förbönsmåssan varje lördag kl 11:00.
Please leave your prayer here.
In the foreground is a scale model of the Vasa, a 17th century warship that sank 15 minutes after first setting sail. In the background is the ship itself. It was salvaged in 1961 and reconstructed and the Vasamuseet was built around it.
The primary historical lesson to be learned from the museum is that if you want to build a warship with a second gundeck below the upper gundeck, you gotta use way more ballast.
Samples of pigments used in decorating the Vasa.
A diagram of planetary motion painted onto the wall in the Vasamuseet, as part of a display describing (as I recall) ideas about the planets creating different metals in the earth with cosmic rays, or some such. (The Spanish found oodles of gold along the equator—gold was created by the Sun's rays; this theory was consequently very important to exploration efforts at the time.)
Some interesting context provided for this 17th century wooden statue of Hercules.
