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Make mobiles with us. Come hang.

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The words of Joseph Campbell

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Remedios Varo, “Reflejo lunar”, 1961

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smithsonianlibraries:

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Kalmar Museum of Art by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter.

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aeolus by iFovea on Flickr.

Via Flickr: Aeolus - acoustic wind pavilion by Luke Jerram at MediaCityUK, Salford. "Aeolus is a giant stringed musical instrument, an acoustic and optical pavilion designed to make audible the silent shifting patterns of the wind and to visually amplify the ever changing sky." www.lukejerram.com/aeolus

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In the tiny mountain town of 馬瀬 (=Maze=Horse Shallows)…

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An anonymous novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China (2012)

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Images of Earth taken by distant NASA spacecraft

Captured from opposite ends of the solar system Friday, two NASA spacecraft turned their cameras on planet Earth, capturing our bright beacon in the black expanse of space.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.

In the Cassini images Earth and the moon appear as mere dots — Earth a pale blue and the moon a stark white, visible between Saturn’s rings. It was the first time Cassini’s highest-resolution camera captured Earth and its moon as two distinct objects.

It also marked the first time people on Earth had advance notice their planet’s portrait was being taken from interplanetary distances. NASA invited the public to celebrate by finding Saturn in their part of the sky, waving at the ringed planet and sharing pictures over the Internet. More than 20,000 people around the world participated. […]

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Ye Olde Fireworks!

From the section charmingly called “Feux de Joye," this is a somewhat modified scan of 17th century fireworks from Practique de la guerre.

Happy Fourth of July!

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Did we ever mention that we actually constructed a replica of Ramelli’s Book Wheel, which inspired this Tumblr blog?

Ramelli was a 16th century Italian engineer, and the book wheel is from  Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine, 1588.

“His ‘book wheel’ presented volumes of text to readers in whatever position they had last placed them, and thus it is considered an early prototype of hypertext and hence the World Wide Web." - Ever accurate Wikipedia, (accessed on 5/31/2013)

Alas folks, it doesn’t actually spin. 

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Earthrise filmed during the Apollo 10 mission, 1969.

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The Four Elements, Hans Christiansen, Kunst und Dekoration, 1898.

Via.

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Cecil Witt

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