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Ottoman Architecture via But Does it Float
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DIRTY COLOUR From Colour: A Manual of its Theory and Practice
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Dirt has been well defined as “matter out of place” and this is singularly true in the case of colour. The sense of dirtiness is generally due to a failure to observe the passage of grey. In considering so difficult and delicate an issue as this, one must take the trouble carefully practice fine and slow...
MIT Design Class photographs for LIFE by Fritz Goro, 1964. (link via The Apiary)
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Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid and the People Paradox—The Pradicament Detail, India ink on silk vellum, 1980.
Tree Mountain—a Living Time Capsule—10,000 Trees, 10,000 People, 400 Years, 1996.
Agnes Denes
Rotating disc of ice, a rare natural phenomenon from ‘rotational shear” which occurs on eddy currents in cold climates. See also. Watch
January 2011
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Vicia faba, Broad bean, cut stem. Equisetum hyemale, Dutch rush, cross-section of shoot.
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, Ox-eye daisy, woundwort, flower bud. Blumenbachia hieronymi, Blumenbachia, closed seed capsule.
Photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt, a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist. Intended to be used for teaching aids and sculpting, but became popular when published in...
Something to do tomorrow.
How to Draw the Voronoi Diagram
The textiles and embroidery of the Shipibo tribe, all crafted by women, contain recursive and self-reflective motifs, including geometric configurations common to those generated computationally by iterative functions. A characteristic recurring visual system found in the textiles are the bilaterally generated cellular patterns containing space-filling curves. (via Data is Nature)
From the Montgolfier fire-balloon to the dirigible. ASCENT BY TESTU-BRISSY ON HORSEBACK. Including the first ascent on horseback in 1798, Pierre Testu-Brissy and his horse made more than fifty documented flights.
From the Earth to the Universe
Russian Antarctic station (more).
“Pony Swim,” graphite on paper, Marissa Textor.
“Gordon Matta-Clark was known for this site-specific artworks like a series of building cuts, where he removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls in abandoned buildings. “Conical Intersect” was one of his projects which he did during the Paris Biennale in 1975. ” (via)