Giambattista della Porta: De humana physiognomonia libri IIII
via www.nlm.nih.gov
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Dec 01
Nov 29
Gustave Courbet: The Cellist, Self-Portrait
1847
i can’t help but weep every time i see this in the art museum. an innocent entrance onto the second floor, i inevitably go admire the tears in the old king’s eyes, and then i turn my head to the left and there he is. i pretend i’m not going to go directly to him, meandering from one painting to another, but all with my eyes secretly enveloped in his. finally, i allow myself to stand in front of him and as they always do, my eyes start milking and continue even after we’ve left and are eating our sandwiches.
courbet, why?
Nov 27
“ I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with me. Because, if there isn’t, then there’s something wrong with the world itself - and that’s much more frightening! That would be terrible. So, I’d rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
— T.S. Eliot (via frost-at-midnight)
A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow) is a rainbow that occurs at night. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light from the Moon. As with rainbows, they are in the opposite part of the sky from the moon. This picture was taken looking south, the bright star to the right is Achernar.
Nov 23
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Nov 09
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
Thousands of stars are forming in the cloud of gas and dust known as the Orion nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light.
A billowing tower of gas and dust rises from the stellar nursery known as the Eagle Nebula. This small piece of the Eagle Nebula is 57 trillion miles long (91.7 trillion km).
Nov 06
by the time my doctors let me emerge from the house again, i will have perfected this!
