traipsing about

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..." Mark Twain

[thebritishkiwi]

Music Map of British Bands

[ephemeral-elegance]

Reception or Dinner Dress, ca. 1883

Charles Frederick Worth

via MFA

[erikkwakkel]

World’s oldest animation

You are looking at a GIF of a phenakistiscope, a 19th-century revolving paper disk imprinted with a series of drawings, which was spun so as to produce a moving image. The device was invented around 1840 by Joseph Plateau and it is the world’s oldest animation. The disk above is one of the oldest to survive and it shows the remarkable resemblance to our modern GIF: they both create motion where there is none. It is simply mesmerizing.

Gif: this is the source of the 21st-century gif (of a 19th-century phenakistiscope). Here is another one, which I posted some time ago.

Note: as one follower noted, there are older animation-like devices. Greek vases from Antiquity hold sequential images; when spun, they show a running person. Read more about this “precursor to animation” here. The vase would make for a great GIF, if the museum lets you!

[erikkwakkel]

World’s oldest animation

You are looking at a GIF of a phenakistiscope, a 19th-century revolving paper disk imprinted with a series of drawings, which was spun so as to produce a moving image. The device was invented around 1840 by Joseph Plateau and it is the world’s oldest animation. The disk above is one of the oldest to survive and it shows the remarkable resemblance to our modern GIF: they both create motion where there is none. It is simply mesmerizing.

Gif: this is the source of the 21st-century gif (of a 19th-century phenakistiscope). Here is another one, which I posted some time ago.

Note: as one follower noted, there are older animation-like devices. Greek vases from Antiquity hold sequential images; when spun, they show a running person. Read more about this “precursor to animation” here. The vase would make for a great GIF, if the museum lets you!

[erikkwakkel]

I found a rare medieval bookmark in Leiden University Library - In this 4 minute movie I explain how it works and how it is telling for 13th-century reading culture. Hope you like it!

[design-is-fine]

Elsa Schiaparelli, silk dress, summer collection 1937. Paris, France. © Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris 📷 Jean Tholance, tous droits réservés

[ephemeral-elegance]

Linen “Cocteau Jacket” and Dress, fall 1937

Elsa Schiaparelli

via The Met

[omgthatdress]

Evening Dress

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1938

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[omgthatdress]

The Skeleton Dress

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1938

The Victoria & Albert Museum

[omgthatdress]

Hat

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1937

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[miss-bronte]

Free mobile voice, text and data plans coming to UK - BBC News

A US firm is to extend its free mobile data, voice and text offering to the UK from July this year.

[defiantinthescope]

So hail Satan and have a lovely afternoon, Madam.

[tumblingthrusanity-deactivated2]

ichwanderegern it’s making the the internet rounds!

[carmen-photography]

Eastbourne Pier (England)

[aberrantbeauty]

Klaus Greipel

[somaphototravel]

The bazaars of Iran.

[barrowkent]

"this moment didn’t feel anachronistic, or GLAAD-approved, or even brave; it felt true. He wasn’t begging for a few scraps from the tolerance table. He was saying "This is who I am, whether or not anything happened, and whether or not you approve." […] And I don’t know that I’ve come across many scenes better than this in all my decades of watching TV and making it, too. It’s an irony of storytelling, or maybe of life, that at what would seem to be his moment of greatest powerlessness Thomas Barrow is at his most powerful, as he stands behind his life, claims it, doesn’t let it down." - (x)

[outlanderanatomy]

Anatomy Lesson #6: The Skin – Part 2, Hair

Hallo again, friends of Outlander Anatomy! Today’s lesson will continue with the skin but will focus on hair, hair follicles, arrector pili muscles and sebaceous glands, all of which ye learned from Skin Part 1 are made by skin and are therefore…

[atom1cflea]

Loved this one! So many interesting facts, and the microscope pics were fantastic.