Incredibly Intricate Dollhouses
Check out this collection of images of amazing dollhouses, including one made for the Queen of England that features running water, a library with tiny handwritten books, and miniature bottles of real wine.
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Making Visible Embryos
Via Morbid Anatomy (which is a really great blog!), check out this neat online exhibition: Making Visible Embryos. It’s an exploration of the many efforts, throughout history, to create visual representations of embryos and fetuses.
Some people — like Emily, I imagine — may find some of the images gross, but I’m sure I’m not the only to find them interesting, and some are quite beautiful. The exhibition chronicles depictions of the unborn from the 1500s to now, documenting five hundred years of evolving scientific and religious understandings of embryos and fetuses. It also includes a lot of information, which explains and contextualizes the images. You can click on any picture to see a large version and read details about the work.
As far as I can tell, Making Visible Embryos is a truly instructional (and artistic) work, not making judgments one way or the other regarding the status and treatment of embryos, and appropriately so. Highly recommended.
Ana Serrano’s Paper Projects
Ana Serrano makes wonderfully detailed and fun paper sculptures. Cartonlandia is especially great.
Via Drawn.
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Bookmarks
Sheesh, when did my bookmarking habits get so out of control!? (Seriously, if you could only see how many I’ve collected recently). Anyway, a few–
Beautiful stainless steel cars.
Awesome steampunk watches and clocks.
Steampunk cellphone–”This steampunk cell phone concept has no display. No 3G. No data plan. No games. It doesn’t even have a dial pad. You make your calls with binary-coded punch cards, steampunk.”–Awesome.
And, though this particular kind of disappointment/betrayal is by no means unprecedented–I’m still pretty sad about this.
:/
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At the Intersection of Steampunk and Taxidermy
I am grossed out by taxidermied animals (though I find the practice of taxidermy to be fascinating in itself) and am sick of the current trend of taxidermy in art. But, as followers of this blog probably know, I love the steampunk aesthetic, and Daisy likes it too.
I guess we should have seen this coming. Sigh.
I think I’ll stick to staring at this instead. And these. And this “16th Century Gun Powder Flask-Sundial Compass Watch.” WANT.
All via Steampunk Pics.
Carl Warner’s Foodscapes
Via the Dark Roasted Blend, check out Carl Warner’s foodscapes (they’re in the “fotographics” section of his website).
I don’t think food has ever looked so…magical.
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“Found Object” Chandeliers
Check out these found object chandeliers at Oobject. Most notably this one.
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Photos Of Spiders
Take a look at this collection of gorgeous images of spiders, including a bunch that look horrifyingly similar to ants, and many others with spectacular colors.
Emmanuel Guibert’s Water-Drawing Technique
Via Boing Boing, this is really cool…
The artist at work is one Emmanuel Guibert, author of the nonfiction graphic novel Alan’s War.
