Opening shot of “Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword” (1964)
An enormous flare maxing out the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s sensors, above, and split into different wavelengths, below
15-year-old Jane Austen’s parodical history of England
“During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.”
“It was in this reign that Joan of Arc lived & made such a row among the English. They should not have burnt her – but they did.”
Instructions for assembling a plague amulet (1670)
NASA’s Juno captures the moon in orbit around the Earth during a flyby
Mind-bending Sierpinski-related fractal visualizations (56k warning)
A chiton’s teeth– made of the hardest material produced by any living organism, magnetite.
Operation Gomorrah – Hamburg, 1943
Tropical aurora following the space detonation of the 1.44-megaton Starfish Prime in 1962
High-altitude sprites captured by photographer Jason Ahrns
Excellent vintage type and design being captured in situ at Typehunting
Mars rover Curiosity watches the orbits of Phobos and Deimos intersect
Shotgun pellets captured at 354 m/s by a “streak camera”
Some of the more awkward illustrations from an old Chinese book of animals
Bergen to Oslo; original quarter-terabyte 7-hour movie here
WWI slides found in an antique Verascope (more Found Film here)




















