chaosophia218:

Binary or Double Stars, “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy”, 1855.

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chaosophia218:

Andrea Alciato - Ne Credas (Don’t be an Easy-Believer), “Emblematum Liber”, 1591.

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youssefalaoui:

January 10
At evening, when the day’s shifts have settled and we each have retired, rolling in our bunks, the clocks play a ticking song that permeates the root of my quarters. I understand it now as my dirge.

The ship’s hull provides a sawing counter bass. The slippery tides form a chorus, and the numerous clocks in the Captain’s room, above, provide a poignant section of staccato flutes. These flutes are tumultuous, like confused animals. Hiding, conniving, judging, they belie any hint of rhythm, discordant as a group of human heartbeats. The only pattern binding them is that they worry for safety together.

- Living In Fog, Youssef Alaoui

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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870s, [ambrotype portrait of a man struggling to contain his wriggling dog]

via the George Eastman House Collection, acc. no. 69.0205.0014

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books0977:

The Bookworm’s Table (1890s). Claude Raguet Hirst (American, born Claudine, 1855-1942). Watercolor over graphite on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper. Brooklyn Museum.

Hirst abandoned flowers after 1890 to focus on library table compositions. Hirst herself related that “[Fitler, her husband] was not very orderly. His tobacco things were always around and one day I noticed what an attractive group they made. He had a meerschaum pipe that was a glorious color. It was like old ivory. I always liked old books and old engravings, so I put the pipe with some of my old books and painted them.”

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