Archive for the 'collection' Category

Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters

"Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore."
 

Liu Bolin…The Invisible Man…

 

Hubble: The Man, the Telescope

Photo gallery of Edwin Hubble, the Hubble telescope in development, after being launched, and being maintained.
 

Jules Vernacular

Every one of these is incredible.
 

Einstein Tomb

but does it float x geoff manaugh
 

Sound in the Sea

A sample set of deep sea audio.
 

The Moon Trees

List of trees planted from seeds taken aboard Apollo 14.
 

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

NYTimes slideshow of moon landing photos by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Also notable for having a tip-top slideshow player.
 

John Fahey

Experimental etc. collects a massive number of Fahey albums.
 

Awful Library Books

Hilarious.
 

We Love Typography

Collaborative graphic collection of found type and design snippets.
 

Josef van Wissem at Ubu Web

"Jozef Van Wissem's favorite compositional device is the palindrome. The Dutch-born, Brooklyn-based lutenist plays pieces forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. Although this strategy is rooted in 17th century compositional practice, it still serves his agenda of rescuing his archaic instrument from history's dustbin."
 

Atlas Obscura

 

NYC Grid

Photoblog documenting New York City block by block. Most recent entry is about the block I work on. He shot the lightpole I lock my bike to!
 

Human landscapes from above

Jason Hawkes is the (a?) new Georg Gerster. Actually, maybe Google Maps is the new Georg Gerster.
 

historic fonts

"Scanned from hallfplate glass negatives found in anabandoned Post Ofice warehouse, the envelopes bear the stamp 'London Press Bureau'. The photos were taken in the mid sixties."
 

modern-alphabets

"Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain" - 1864
 

Mythical Places

Seems like there should be more of these, but this is a collection of I think most of the pre-renaissance mythical locations that were actually theorized to exist. The list changes as we get into the renaissance, I think - as the age of exploration begins and some of these disappear but new ones get added.
 

Derek Jarman on UbuWeb

"Highly personal, poetic and affecting, Jarman's Super-8 works fall roughly into two, overlapping categories: documents of his immediate environment and imaginative experiments in film-making that sought to express emotion through image rather than acting."
 

DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE

"The father of camouflage, Abbott Thayer described animal coloration as a way to conceal or disrupt an object. Dazzle is disruptive (think of a zebra)."