Digitised and animated versions of some of optical device collector Richard ‘Dick’ Balzer’s many phenakistoscopes – illustrated disks that used persistence of vision to create (often morbid) animated loops when viewed through a slit in a mirrored enclosure.
Many more here.
Previously: Protogifs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6Ds-msPps
A short documentary made by Ronni Thomas for the Morbid Anatomy Museum featuring the history of the planchette and other arcane psychokinetic devices collected and curated by Brandon Hodge of Mysterious Planchette.
Statue Of Unity: a proposed 182 metre tall memorial to Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (1875 – 1950), a founding member of the Indian National Congress and a leader of his country’s struggle for independence.
Currently under construction at Sadhu-Bet Island in the Narmada district of Gujarat, India, the monument (twice the height of the Statue Of Liberty) is due for completion in 2018.
Fascinating 100 year old film clips of four of the world’s most celebrated artists: a 74-year-old Claude Monet painting at Giverny in 1915; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (also aged 74 in 1915) at his easel with his son; three sequences of Auguste Rodin at 75 and an 81 year old Edgar Degas strolling through Paris two years before his death.
(Portraits via Wikipedia)
An abandoned 1:3 scale wooden replica of the Russian VKK Orbiter shuttle (used as a wind tunnel model in the 1980s), currently mouldering away in a corner of Zhukovsky airfield in Moscow, documented by aviation photographer Aleksander Markin.
MORE: Wooden Shuttle: Rotting Wind Tunnel Model from the Abandoned Buran Space Programme (urban Ghosts)
Youth, love, tousled locks, the slim prospect of not becoming the oldest ever heir to the British throne, life, etc.
Good times.
Charles and Diana on holiday in the Bahamas, 1982.
A 1930 promotional poster from the ‘Sally L. Steinberg collection of doughnut ephemera’ at the National Musuem of American History.
Area 51.
A Sunday outing for Neil, Mick and Buzz, July 20th, 1969.
Stanley Kubrick (out of picture).
BREAKING: A skull has been located in the excavation at Cork Prison, thought to be that of Thomas Kent #1916 #ThomasKent #Cork #history
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More as we get it.