ryanmatthewcohn:

Ryan Matthew’s Collection. Photo by Sergio Royzen.

ffactory:

[Ravens prevail]

ronulicny:

“The Weight Of Color”, 2008

 By: BETYE SAAR

donnalethal:

at the IMATS show, Los Angeles.

jennikeatts:

My fetus I completed the other day! In charcoal and ink

mentalfornication:

Musée zoologique de Strasbourg by La Fille Renne on Flickr.

intheheatherbright:

Detail British Moths and their Caterpillars.

Arthur Mee ed., The Children’s Encyclopedia, (London: The Educational Book Company, circa 1920).

The Museum of Orfila (5) is of the greatest importance to students of medicine.  All can go there to study human and comparative anatomy including its innermost secrets, from the comparative anatomy including its innermost secrets, from the dwarf to the giant, the fish to man, from the cell to the organ.  There is a table there made by an Italian and presented, I believe, to Napoleon III.  This table is made of human livers, intestines, bones, flesh, lungs, and ears.  The learned Italian knew how to harden them in such a way that they became as hard as marble and these different substances of the human body formed fanciful designs; however I believe that there are many persons who will not dare to eat on that table.  The process is unknown, the secret having been lost, it seems.

moshita:

Jericó Santander

(Source: moshita)

ceefang:

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

(Source: thresholdnote)

Sculpture by Anna Gillespie. Her work is kind of amazing.

(Source: etie)

tzilah:

The Antwerp Owl Goblet (1548-1549). Silver and coconut.

This is the oldest known Antwerp owl goblet. The head of the owl could be screwed off, so people could drink from its body.

An old Dutch saying was engraved around the neck of the bird: ‘Als alle ander fogels sin thoe neste sois min flige beste.’ (‘When all the birds are [lying] in their nests, my flight is best’) - Decribing the owl as a bird who is active at night.