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An Aesthetic Taxonomy II
Congrats to
amischiefofmice for being the first to correctly identify Friday’s Freak of the Week as the cannon bone of a camelid! More specifically it is the metacarpal. I’m not positive on the species because it’s one of Dave’s random bones he brought in for fun. Good job! Good jobs all around! Congratulations to everyone!I thought I’d include more photographs of our exhibit, sans people in the gallery. Check out pictures of the installation, our opening reception, work by Hannah Spry, and pieces by Kadie Zimmerman. I will continue to post photos of the other artists as time permits.
ALSO — I will not be posting tomorrow because it is ELECTION DAY! I have already cast my ballot absentee but I expect all of you American citizens over the age of 18 to GO VOTE. GO VOTE. GO VOTE.
GO. VOTE.
GO VOTE. There are no excuses. This is going to be an incredibly close race and even if you think your vote doesn’t matter, it does. Action matters. Doing matters. This is about more than just you and me. Your apathy is a disgrace to your friends, relatives, and everyone who has come before you, the people who have fought to put you on this planet and keep you here. This is your duty. Even if you hate the candidates, even if you think their policies suck, even if you just don’t care who wins — JUST VOTE. Pick the lesser of two evils. Especially you, women — ladies fought way too hard for their right to vote for you to just disregard all of their diligence because you were busy, or didn’t know where your polling place was, or you wanted to watch Sherlock, or whatever. I don’t care.
GO VOTE.
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Beetles Invasion: One Artist’s Take on the Insect
Perched on a stool in her studio in northwest Washington, D.C., artist Joan Danziger pages through the book Living Jewels. “This one influenced me,” she says, pointing to Phaedimus jagori, a green-and-gold beetle from the Philippines. The book contains flattering portraits of beetles taken by photographer Poul Beckmann. “See this one?” Danziger asks, showing me a yellow-and-black striped beetle from Mexico called Gymnetis stellata. “It became the ‘Tiger Beetle’ up there.” - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
Photos by: Poul Beckmann / Courtesy of Joan Danziger
Ed note: Here are the country’s most dangerous beetles.
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Plate left folded.
From p. 108 (?) of An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford by John Keill (1739). Original from Ghent University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
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No Instagram here, kids, this is photographic paleo-art from The Eighties. The photographer, Jane Burton, combined models, cutouts, glass panels, painted backgrounds and different camera tricks to achieve these results.
If you want to know more, take a look at Tricia’s Obligatory Art Blog, and you’ll see that she deserves all the credit for this post. Thank you, Tricia. Also there’s this book.
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So this is my night. #drawing #ink #photography #art #anatomy #anatomicaldrawing #mixedmedia (Taken with Instagram)
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Plate left folded.
From A Treatise on the Ananas or Pine-apple by Adam Taylor (1769). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 15, 2006.
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An Inquisitive Youngster, from Birds as Individuals by Len Howard, 1952 (via liquidnight)
Posted on September 16, 2012 via (OvO) with 1,069 notes
Source: liquidnight
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Moiré in color spectrum charts.
From The Theory of Color and Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry by Wilhelm von Bezold (1876). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 15, 2008.
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Human Anatomy / Анатомия человека (by My . December)
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Nathalia Edenmont
2007
