Archive for the ‘images’ Category

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

September 29, 2009

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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Want

September 28, 2009


R0013001

Originally uploaded by unfrostedpoptart

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Encounter in the Canyon

August 1, 2009
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Kunst-Formen der Natur by Ernst Haeckl

November 3, 2008

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

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Extant Anomolacaris look-alike.

September 26, 2008

Image links to plate in a Flickr stream, but check out the Bibliodyssey post.
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Rideable Jules Verne-inspired robots.

August 26, 2008

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

My runaway favorite is the crab larva.

via

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Codex Seraphinianus as a cbz.

June 17, 2008

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.

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Spider on spider violence.

June 1, 2008


Glued

Originally uploaded by Malaysian Spiders

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

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Tarpit reinactment in miniature on flickr.

April 14, 2008

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

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B. W. Hawkins, early paleoartist.

April 8, 2008