Untitled Object

http://bit.ly/1Z3MgCV (via sideshow)

Is this real life?

     No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal. In his nimble hands it would flatter and stream, quiver and sweat. His figures weep and shout, their torses twist and run, and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation. He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another - marble into trees, leaves, hair, and, of course, flesh.        -   Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Bernini

The Annual ‘Corso Zundert’ Parade Honors Van Gogh with Monumental Floats Adorned with Flowers

So get this, Jack Kirby provided the costume design for a 1969, UC Santa Cruz production of Julius Cesar.

They had great cover art, don’t you think? It seems to always involve a lot of pointing, though.

BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 184v

Enter the Optical Illusion Graffiti Void

[Nam June Paik. Untitled. 1993. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Estate of Nam June Paik]

Jordan Clark, D. Mon Chill Drin 2011

Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Staircase of the house designed for the exhibition “Weißenhofsiedlung” Stuttgart, 1927. In original colors. Via Monumente online, photo © Roland Gassner

WATCH: Paint, Oil, Milk, and Honey Mix in this Surreal Macro Video of Swirling Liquids by Thomas Blanchard (video)

The World’s Oldest Multicolored Printed Book Has Been Opened and Digitized for the First Time

Johann Baptista Homan, Monograms, 1700. Schul der Pallas by Loschge, Nuremberg. Via europeana

Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, Birdl ABC, 1925. Germany. Via Bassenge

H. Grönvold, Heads of the Genus Corvus, from the magazine Novitates Zoologicae, volume 33, 1926. England. Via BioDivLib