“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.

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Originally uploaded by unfrostedpoptart

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.”

Dinosaurs in the Civil War

photo by Robert Kimberly

Dinosaur Kingdom
It’s 1863 and Union soldiers have discovered a hidden valley filled with dinosaurs. Now the Yankees plan to use the dinos as weapons of mass destruction against the South.

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Kunst-Formen der Natur by Ernst Haeckl

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

Extant Anomolacaris look-alike.

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

Rideable Jules Verne-inspired robots.

Les Machines de l’ile: Official site (in French), Wikipedia,  two Flickr sets 1, 2.

My runaway favorite is the crab larva.

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Spider on spider violence.

Glued

Originally uploaded by Malaysian Spiders

…which in an of itself is nothing unusual, but this is a pretty spectacular example.

This just in- dragonflies eat midgets!

Image links to screen capture on Flickr

According to this Wikipedia article, at around 5 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008:

“Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, little peoples, and other small insects…”

“Little peoples” linking here.

Hooray, another one!

Large assassin bug – a mimic of tarantula hawk wasps, Pepsis spp, Peru

Originally uploaded by artour_a