straight +straight-edge

had this blog since 2013 but now it's just buildings, small sculptures, art etc. sometimes little musings on my own life. enjoy!

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Birds at the Temple of Horus in Edfu, Egypt circa 2007

[themostdangerousintheworld]

[nemfrog]

Groundbreaking drawing of nerve cells by Camillo Golgi using his innovative process of making single nerve cells visible by staining them black with silver. Detail.

Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso. Camillo Golgi. 1886.

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[nemfrog]

The delicate web of nerves wrapped around a blood vessel in the kidney of a young rabbit.

Gustaf Retzius. Biologische Untersuchungen, Neue Folge, Bd. III. (Biological Researches, New Series.) 1892 .

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[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[konoko]

[krebsbian]

somewhere in the middle of a call with my sister where we were both just crying she managed to add her friend to the call and he was like hello? hello? and we were like omg wtf hello who is this? a brief funny moment in what has otherwise been the worst few weeks of my life

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vibe

[koenji]

An Egyptian Faience Scarab, New Kingdom, 18TH dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 B.C.

Green in color, the well-detailed beetle with the underside containing her royal prenomen flanked by cobras, each head surmounted by a solar disk, a winged sun-disk with pendant cobras above

½ in. (1.3 cm.) long; ring size 4 ½ x

[proteusolm]

some animals are naturally blurry

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Cliff riders duck behind a waterfall in the Pololu Valley in Hawaii.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

"What the fuck?"

no, "Watch the Phacus".

Take a 30 second scrolling break to watch these little algae swim.