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lelledelalla: Vladimir Nabokov’s map of Leopold Bloom and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:39:35 +0100

Vladimir Nabokov’s map of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus’s routes around Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses

modernfencing: [ID: a multiple exposure of a foil salute. Old,...

Thu, 02 May 2013 06:10:24 +0100

[ID: a multiple exposure of a foil salute. Old, black and white photo.]

steroge:

Foil Salute (Joe Levis), 1938 by Harold Edgerton

(FEROZ Galerie: Paris Photo Los Angeles)

thekhooll: Soyuz Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket....

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:12:43 +0100

thekhooll:

Soyuz

Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket. Click here to view big..!

centuriespast: SAENREDAM, Pieter JanszInterior of the Church of...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:09:55 +0100

centuriespast:

SAENREDAM, Pieter Jansz
Interior of the Church of St Odulphus, Assendelft
1649
Oil on panel, 50 x 76 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

archimaps: Inside the staircase of the Hôtel of Prince Roland...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:42:16 +0100

archimaps:

Inside the staircase of the Hôtel of Prince Roland Bonaparte, Paris

nickkahler: Henri Labrouste, Imaginary Reconstruction of an...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:51:08 +0100

nickkahler:

Henri Labrouste, Imaginary Reconstruction of an Ancient City, c. 1860

nataliakoptseva: Longhi, Banquet at the Palazzo Nani alla...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:37:56 +0100

nataliakoptseva:

Longhi, Banquet at the Palazzo Nani alla Giudecca

art-of-swords: Sword Fighting Manual Dated: circa 1500 Pages...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:07:54 +0100

art-of-swords:

Sword Fighting Manual

Dated: circa 1500

Pages from a book from the State Library of Berlin.

Source: Retronaut

nickkahler: Tower of Babel, c. 1700 (via mythofblue)

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:11:33 +0100

nickkahler:

Tower of Babel, c. 1700 (via mythofblue)

Lunar Quarters

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:42 +0100

Lunar Quarters

retrofuturismblog: Retro-futurism in French Children’s...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:54:27 +0100

retrofuturismblog:

Retro-futurism in French Children’s Encyclopedias, 1945-1975 | Retronaut ‘More and more the computer will take the place of the human brain’

cravingdesires: continuo-docs: Ancient Egyptian music...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:44:00 +0100

cravingdesires:

continuo-docs:

Ancient Egyptian music notation
From a set of 6 parchments described by German musicologist Hans Hickmann in his 1956 book Musicologie Pharaonique, or Music under the Pharaohs, as dating from the 5th to 7th centuries C.E. Colors are presumed to indicate pitch and size to indicate duration. Writings on the parchment are in Coptic with indications like “Spiritual Harmony” and “Holy Hymn Singer”. This manuscript had a profound influence on Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh’s music notation and paintings when he discovered a reproduction in Vogue magazine in 1952.

Note: I wasn’t able to locate these manuscripts and couldn’t find any reference to them online, but they are presumably in NY’s Metropolitan Museum collections. This image comes from Theresa Sauer’s book Notations 21, Mark Batty Publisher, USA, 2009.

flasd: hyogo :: Werner Dafeldecker for: electroguitar, tenor...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:52:08 +0100

flasd:

hyogo :: Werner Dafeldecker

for: electroguitar, tenor saxophone, cello, double-bass,

Hyogo (1997) is a graphical score based on the blueprints for a Buddhist temple. The score is a series of lines and “stops” where each player plays between the stops, therefore including silences throughout the piece. Dafeldecker mapped out a specific route for each player to follow during a performance. Once can see the red line that traces Kyle Bruckmann’s part in his performance of this piece.

booksnbuildings: A series of maps from 1705, in the national...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:09:46 +0000

booksnbuildings:

A series of maps from 1705, in the national library of France, depicting the growth of Paris from its humble beginnings as a Roman provincial town, Lutetia, to the French royal capital.

Big things have small beginnings.

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