Ellen Does Conservation

This is my life as a pre-program nomad.

[thingsorganizedneatly]

Lisa Congdon’s Vintage Crayons

[elleninportugal]

After nine months of (part-time) work, the Pietro da Cortona painting at Villanova is clean!  There's still a long way to go with filling and inpainting, but for now, take a look at my blog on some pentimenti we found after all the overpaint and varnish was removed.

[installator]

"Wearing their national colours, the Polish champion powerlifters and bench-pressers struggle and strain to elevate these hefty bronze and brick monuments, metaphorically attempting to lift the very burden of history on to their shoulders." Christian Jankowski (artupdate.com)

[theconservator]

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

When you find a dog marriage picture, you must take it to its logical end.

Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey may be familiar with this Victorian illustrated weekly magazine covering the Anglo-Boer war from 1899 to 1903. 

Perhaps these are Union Jack Russel Terriers?

From Black & White Budget, Sept 22, 1900 p.786

[jimmstorment]

Paint…  Philadelphia PA…

[skunkbear]

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the birthday of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev - the man whose ground-breaking work led to the creation of the modern periodic table of elements.

Here’s a fun look at his contributions from Lou Serico and TED-Ed:

[elleninportugal]

Um, can I have this during my WUDPAC interview?

[whenyouworkatamuseum]

When someone offers to donate a stack of historically significant documents and important records... which they have helpfully laminated.

[reasonsmysoniscrying]

"He was arrested for ‘nibbling all the pears from a basket’."

1893 French Mug shot of François Bertillon Age: 23 months Crime: Gluttony (via www.twitter.com/HistoryInPics)

[mineralists]

Crystal Spheres Sphere 1: Natrolite and Quartz Sphere 2: Opal Sphere 3: Orpriment Sphere 4: Quartz and Rutile Sphere 5: Rhodochrosite Sphere 6: Septarian Stone Sphere 7: Vanadinite and Geothite

[lolmythesis]

Women mathematicians in film are young and exceedingly attractive; male mathematicians in film are old, white and socially inept (except Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park)

Science Communication, Imperial College London

'The Image of the Mathematician in Western Cinema'

[sammywinchestear]

[elleninportugal]

My birthday is coming up if anybody needs a gift idea...

[lolmythesis]

Nature is pretty, but not like art... usually not like art, but sometimes like art, kind of.

Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

[thegetty]

This smart daguerreotypist posed these sisters in a comfortable resting position for the long exposure which produced a relaxed and in-focus double portrait.

Two Girls Reclining on a Chaise Lounge, 1851-1854, Sheldon K. Nichols. J. Paul Getty Museum.

[thingsorganizedneatly]

http://rachelignotofsky.tumblr.com/post/69455725620/new-art-print-i-illustrated-up-on-etsy-this

SUBMISSION:

An illustration by Rachel Ignotofsky  This playful info-graphic shows almost all of the lab equipment you could ever dream of.

[atavus-blog]

[beautilation]

Ronnie Yarisal & Katja Kublitz - Anger Release Machine, 2008

[geogallery]

Gold