Friday, December 14, 2007

The Story of the Vivian Girls...

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion


"CHILD-HEADED WHIPLASH-TAIL BLENGINS, BLENGIGLOM-ENEAN ISLAND"

American Folk Art Museum
Wikipedia



Epigram by Guillaume Apollinaire (1913)

"Catalogues, posters, advertisements of all sorts. Believe me, they contain the poetry of our epoch."

Codex Seraphinianus




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus: The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an incomprehensible (at least for us) alphabetic writing.

Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope (ca. 1930-1940)




Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The Whale Hunt


Photoessay on a May, 2007 whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska: http://thewhalehunt.org/