“Parting The Veil of Faery”, The Neville Colmore Fatagravures

It involves  a Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore, who claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process.

…or just go straight to the Flickr set.

More links to related stuff on the MeFi post.

Encounter in the Canyon

Encounter in the Canyon

Originally uploaded by zymoglyph

From the Zymoglyphic Museum’s awesome Flickr stream. Their text accompaniing the set:
“Collages made for the second edition of the museum guide to show what the Zymoglyphic region might look like through the eyes of 19th century explorers. Based primarily on the works of Gustave Dore, Ernst Haeckel, Pieter Breugel the elder, and Hieronymous Bosch.”

Bucket-o-Bosch. Head.

Direct YT link.

Buckethead.  (Wikipedia)

One of the Animators.

Kunst-Formen der Natur by Ernst Haeckl

All 400 pages on Flickr, or download a 260 MB PDF from here.

Muto, a wall-painted animation.

Direct Vimeo link.

Artist website.

Extant Anomolacaris look-alike.

Image links to plate in a Flickr stream, but check out the Bibliodyssey post.

My friends are geniuses example n+1

Artist website.

Frog guts are beuatiful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And there’s more where that came from, including the outsides of the frogs, tadpoles and eggs, at this great BibliOdyssey post about Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s  ”Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium.”

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods

A 1910 book about funny critters that may or may not have vexed lumberjacks of yesteryear, now abailable as an online hypertext edition.

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Great quote

“Even if a comic book artist spent his whole life drawing yogurt cups, you would still see his most secret and most deranging sensibilities emerge.” – Jean Giraud Moebius, in Moebius Redux (link to Google Video)