Sunday, August 08, 2010
Apollo 15 photos
The Apollo 15 was the ninth Apollo manned emission (and the first one after I was born). These photos are from the NASA website and they are all PD. And now I feel like watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Kids of Old Japan
Another delightful set by Okinawa Soba on Flickr, it is a must see and very informative. You can find it here.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Photochroms of St. Peterburg
These are old photochroms of St Peterburg before the Russian revolution. They come from the Library of Congress and can be seen here in a much higher resolution. These images have made me want to read "Anna Karenina" again.
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
A Big Tree ca. 1857
"Galen Clark first came upon a grove of some 200 giant sequoias in 1857 in what is now the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. He named it Mariposa Grove and dedicated the rest of his life to its preservation. This tree is one of the oldest living trees in the grove, estimated at 2,700 years old. The tallest is approximately 290 feet high and the largest measures approximately 40 feet in diameter. In total volume, the giant sequoia trees are the largest living things on earth."
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Steamboats
Tonight the collection of old photos is completely dedicated to steamboats. The first steamer sailed on the Doubs River (between France and Switzerland) in 1776.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Greetings from a vintage seaside
These are just a few from a collection of over 700 vintage postcards of Staten Island. They can found on the New York Public Library's website in a much higher resolution.
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Sporting Sketches by Henry Thomas Alken
Wikipedia says: "Henry Thomas Alken (October 12, 1785 – April 7, 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831."
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[Hunters before hunting.]
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(June 1, 1817)
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Sporting Sketches by Henry Thomas Alken
Wikipedia says: "Henry Thomas Alken (October 12, 1785 – April 7, 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831."
Amplify’d from digitalgallery.nypl.org
[Hunters before hunting.]
Read more at digitalgallery.nypl.org
(June 1, 1817)
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
A rather strange Russian Animation
It says underneath that it is by Pilot studio 1989. Directed by Igor Kovalyov with art direction by Alexander Tatarskyi
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Warning: Very good photos of Elephants.
The article is quite long and gives lots of advice on how to take good photos of elephants. Not that I do that a lot in South West London but you never know.
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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Strange book of the day
Lots of colourful fish, book published in 1719. You can view it online.
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In 100 plates containing 460 brilliantly colored engravings that represent a dazzling multitude of fishes, along with crustaceans, grasshoppers, a dugong, and a mermaid, Louis Renard’s Fishes, crayfishes and crabs, of diverse coloration and extraordinary form displays the most fantastic evocation of exotic aquatic life ever produced.
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