Original poster for Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” by Boris Bilinsky (more)
Traditional honey-hunting by Gurung tribesman in Nepal (photo: Andrew Newey)
Johannes Janson – A Formal Garden (1766)
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.”
Marc Wilson – The Last Stand
(World War II fortifications in decay)
“For a black hunt, a mute pack” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Landscape and signal lamp, 1922 (NOAA)
Sublime, undefinable art by Emma McNally
Instructions for assembling a plague amulet (1670)
from Juan Vilanova y Piera’s La Creacion: Historia Naturale (1874)
J.M.W. Turner – Death on a Pale Horse
Yang Yongliang – Moonlight; the landscape without light (large version here)
Sebastian Evans – The Ancients of the World (c.1870)
