“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.”

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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Codex Seraphinianus as a cbz.

Alot of the traffic that I get here is from folks googling the Codex Seraphinianus, about which I posted a little more than a year ago.  The post was to a flickr set that has since gone dark.  However, you can download the codex as a cbz via torrent here.  You’ll need ComicBookLover or Comical or some goddamn thing to read it.

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.

Tarpit reinactment in miniature on flickr.

The spider (an adult male Xysticus) found the and on a bottle cap full of honey, from which he was unable to escape.

Macabre find #2

Originally uploaded by Lord V

B. W. Hawkins, early paleoartist.

Artist Nemo Ramjet wrote an informative blog post about Hawkins, including pictures he took of Hawkins’ pictures.

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