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ayjay: Three-dimensional typography by Oded Ezer

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Three-dimensional typography by Oded Ezer

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The Halted Traveller, 2012

“The term ‘halted traveller’ is usually associated with German romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich, to describe a person seen from behind facing a landscape. The lonely wanderer appears to have been halted by the view of the landscape.

This implies to us as a viewer that there is perhaps more to the landscape than we see. One can also identify with the figure. His posture invites you to imagine what he feels facing this landscape in front of his and your eyes.”

by Damien Rayuela

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pardonmynorwegian: Yes, it’s true. Norway is getting its own show about … knitting! The show, title Strikking minutt for minutt (Knitting minute by minute) is still in the works, but could be on air this winter. If you remember, this is the same country that had live documentaries about its famous boat ride, Hurtigruten (the world’s longest live documentary) and also firewood, both which were hits. PHOTO: Aftenposten

pardonmynorwegian:

Yes, it’s true. Norway is getting its own show about … knitting!

The show, title Strikking minutt for minutt (Knitting minute by minute) is still in the works, but could be on air this winter. If you remember, this is the same country that had live documentaries about its famous boat ride, Hurtigruten (the world’s longest live documentary) and also firewood, both which were hits.

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The emergence and success of antisemitism in the late 19th and 20th centuries cannot be understood without recognition of the large part played by a centuries-long heritage of Christian doctrinal hostility to Jews. This ‘anti-Judaism’ was an inherent part of Christianity after Paul, and was virtually inevitable once Jews had rejected the essential Christian claim that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ. This conflict over beliefs led to the institutionalization within medieval European Christendom of the Jews as a protected, but oppressed minority. Doctrinally, Jews, cast in Christian theology as ‘Christ’s killers’, were to be held in a subordinate and wretched state in order to act as evidence of the consequences of their blindness toward the truth of Christ’s divinity, but this also meant that they were to be preserved, so that they could eventually act as witnesses, at the Second Coming, to that truth. As such, Jews were the sole minority faith tolerated within the confines of Western Christendom; and Jews also clearly played a central role, as the original Chosen People of the one God, to Christian understanding of the world.
Steven Beller, Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction (via lazersilberstein)
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beatonna: erikkwakkel: Medieval smiley face This is a true feel-good doodle, drawn by a medieval reader and found in the lower margin of a 13th-century page. The surprisingly modern-looking smiley face is wearing glasses and seems to float towards the text in a balloon, quite content. This little scene made my day. Pic: Conches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 7 (main text 13th century, doodle 14th or 15th century). More medieval doodles in this Tumblr. You should all follow Erik Kwakkel’s tumblr, all of his amazing medieval posts have lovely annotations, a rare thing on tumblr where too often we see images with little context.  Superb!

beatonna:

erikkwakkel:

Medieval smiley face

This is a true feel-good doodle, drawn by a medieval reader and found in the lower margin of a 13th-century page. The surprisingly modern-looking smiley face is wearing glasses and seems to float towards the text in a balloon, quite content. This little scene made my day.

Pic: Conches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 7 (main text 13th century, doodle 14th or 15th century). More medieval doodles in this Tumblr.

You should all follow Erik Kwakkel’s tumblr, all of his amazing medieval posts have lovely annotations, a rare thing on tumblr where too often we see images with little context.  Superb!

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spellczyker: Edoardo Ballerini

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Edoardo Ballerini

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astronomy-to-zoology:

Rosy Woodlouse (Androniscus dentiger)

Also known as the pink woodlouse, the rosy woodlouse is a species of isopod native to England, Europe and Northern Africa. Like other woodlice the rosy woodlouse has a wide range of habitats and can be found in gardens, quarries, caves and areas with lime deposits. South of the British Isles rosy woodlice become more troglobitic (cave dwelling) and are widely distributed through several different cave systems.

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Animalia-Arthropoda-Crustacea-Malacostraca-Isopoda-Trichoniscidae-Androniscus-dentiger

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astronomy-to-zoology:

White-spotted Porostome (Doriopsilla albopunctata)

… a species of dorid nudibranch found on the western seaboard of North America, ranging from California to Mexico. Like other nudibranch species the white-spotted porostome feeds almost exclusively on sponges, which it scrapes up with its radula.

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Animalia-Mollusca-Gastropoda-Doridacea-Phyllidioidea-Dendrodorididae-Doriopsilla-albopunctata

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