Anthologist

A collection for the sake of collecting.

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Meticulous Landscape Paintings Beautifully Represent Intangible Emotional States

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Will You Make A Suitable Bride For Oscar Isaac?

This is of the utmost urgency: Oscar must have a bride, and we are to dredge one up for him. But oh, he is so particular, so exacting in his criteria. Are you the one suited to marry Oscar? 

Take this quiz to find out!

[alexhasa]

Sufjan Stevens Renames Kitchen Appliances

Perishables! Come Congregate in the Cold! Little Hot Waves, Or, Let’s Get Brain Cancer While We Wait For The Popcorn Mix Your Drinks! (Stir! Whip! Purée!) A Configuration of Whisks Which, When Activated, Allow Sufjan Stevens to Cook a Fluffier Omelette Toaster (For the Toastless)

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Fishing for the first Americans: 

Archaeology is moving underwater and along riverbanks to find clues left by the people who colonized the New World

by Emma Marris

“On 17 September, a catamaran will set off into the Pacific Ocean on a week-long cruise back to the Pleistocene. Laden with sonar instruments, the research vessel Shearwater will probe the ocean bottom to find places that were beaches and dry land more than 13,000 years ago, when the sea level was around 100 metres lower. The researchers are hunting for evidence that ancient people lived along this now-sunken coastline as they colonized the New World.

Meanwhile, other archaeologists are digging in the intertidal zone on a remote island off the shore of British Columbia in Canada, where the sea level has barely changed since the ice-age glaciers began to retreat. Since late last year, that team has found footprints and a tool that date back 13,200 years, making them some of the oldest human marks on the continent. Whoever left them had to have reached the island by boat.

Welcome to the newest wave of American archaeology: the idea that the first residents of the Americas came by sea, hugging the Pacific coast as they went south. This theory marks a sharp departure from the once-dominant hypothesis that Pleistocene hunters from Siberia migrated by foot across a land bridge to Alaska and then south into the heart of North America. This route opened up only when the vast sheets of ice covering the continent had melted enough to permit passage. It was thought that these first migrants made the distinctive stone spear tips called Clovis points, which began appearing at sites in the interior of North America around 13,000 years ago” (read more).

(Source: Nature)

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Fantastic Island: A story of an unlikely shipwreck, made with techniques of the past.

Artist Patricia Lagarde builds dioramas of imaginary worlds and then photographs these scenes with an analog camera. 

There are only five copies of Fantastic Island, and each one is contained within an ornate box. One of those copies recently joined the Getty Research Institute’s collection, read more about it on the Getty Iris.

Fantastic Island, Patricia Lagarde, 2011. © Patricia Lagarde.

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Abstract Ice Paintings - Cliff Briggie  

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Connecticut photographer and psychologist Cliff Briggie uses ice, paint, light and water to make these abstract ‘ice paintings’. Instead of using Photoshop, he relies on the ice and paint to morph into something unexpected and unique. He writes: ‘Little pieces of paint take on a life of their own, suddenly exploding, colors streaming everywhere and then they are gone forever. It is at once so breathtaking, heartbreaking, and compelling that I have missed more than a shot or two’.via: lostateminor

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Clement Valla

Postcards from Google Earth, 2010-ongoing

Screenshots from Google Earth, inkjet on paper, 23 in x 40 inches

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Malamute puppies struggling to comprehend music

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This photo is one of a series from the project “nanoq: flat out and bluesome” by Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, one of the most fascinating multimedia (installation/photograph/written work) projects I’ve ever had the chance to see in real life. 

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Sincere thumbs up to the Norwegian Ambassador to Indonesia, who pledges not to do any more #allmalepanels

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Africa’s ancient art to be saved, with your help

by Daisy Fletcher

“Thousands of examples of millennial old art carved into rocks and on the walls of caves are under threat as their location is often unknown and unprotected from artefact thieves. Despite providing some of the oldest art in the world, Africa’s rock art tradition has long been overlooked by archaeologists and art historians alike.Now the British Museum and Kenyan-based archaeological charity TARA (Trust for African Rock Art) are working to preserve this endangered heritage.

“The Museum wants to make Africa’s rock art available to both scholars and the general public alike. We hope to both protect and share this remarkable history for free with a global audience,” says Elizabeth Galvin, Curator of the African Rock Art Image Project. The rock art tradition began in Africa 50,000 years ago, but abstract engravings may be up to 77,000 years old. It long predates writing, so serves as an important historical window into the culture and beliefs of early humans, and the world in which they lived. Today only a handful of isolated groups engage in the tradition, with a few sites still being used for fertility and rainmaking rituals. 

The places in which ancient rock art is found have been little documented and largely unprotected, leading to a deterioration of the sites and the art itself. In 1996, TARA was set up, in order to record and protect the rich rock art heritage of the African continent. The Nairobi-based NGO are committed to improving awareness about this tradition, and the endangered state that rock art sites are in. “The ultimate aim is to record all this incredible heritage for humanity before it’s too late,” says David Coulson, TARA’s Executive Chairman” (read more).

(Source: Independent UK)

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Happy Bloomsday, everyone!

(via Bloomsday Explained)

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Pictured is a series of images from the Museum’s Digital Special Collections. “Taxidermist George Adams constructing moa foundation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1951,” was photographed by Robert Logan, Alex J. Rota, and Matt Shanley.