(via Charles Dellschau: The artist’s scrapbooks documenting the Sonora Aero Club.)

(via Solar System Sampler: Needlepoint pattern meant to teach girls astronomy)

A calendar for the year 1967 created by the artists Klaus Burkhardt and Luitpold Domberger.
Featuring 6 optical art silkscreen prints, this work was issued in 26 copies only.

(via Op Art Kalendar « Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities)

booksvscigarettes:

House and people living in it in Hamburg, Germany c1904
Photograph by Hans Breuer

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continuo-docs:

Ancient Egyptian music notation
From a set of 6 parchments described by German musicologist Hans Hickmann in his 1956 book Musicologie Pharaonique, or Music under the Pharaohs, as dating from the 5th to 7th centuries C.E. Colors are presumed to indicate pitch and size to indicate duration. Writings on the parchment are in Coptic with indications like “Spiritual Harmony” and “Holy Hymn Singer”. This manuscript had a profound influence on Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh’s music notation and paintings when he discovered a reproduction in Vogue magazine in 1952.

Note: I wasn’t able to locate these manuscripts and couldn’t find any reference to them online, but they are presumably in NY’s Metropolitan Museum collections. This image comes from Theresa Sauer’s book Notations 21, Mark Batty Publisher, USA, 2009.

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mythologyofblue:

“I am afraid that this setting bird will realize that I am a man, a being that has lost the confidence of birds.”

-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (quote via batarde)

Image: Roni Horn

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(via Before Us is the Salesman’s House | blprnt.blg)

(via Foxes Hidden in the Fine Print)

(via POUL WEBB ART BLOG: Max Ernst - part 1)

poetrysince1912:

“A Door to the Sea,” from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s paintings in the July/August 2012 issue of Poetry. More: Ferlinghetti at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (Los Angeles Times), and Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore and 1967’s Summer of Love (Vanity Fair).

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(via Abstract Comics: The Blog: pavements)

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