not that kind of rock star

Lai. tolkien, rocks, etc.

[mimeticspace]

The Kihoku Astronomical Museum (located in Kanoya, Japan) designed by Takasaki Masaharu in 1995

[evenlyevi]

Here again.

[nemfrog]

Diana.

Grande mythologie tintamarresque. 1881.

Internet Archive

[gvalesdraws]

Melkor from Silmarillion that I did for the amazing Lucifer zine! (@the_cursed_zine on instagram)

[389]

Aerial view of a volcanic crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo credit: Chris John

[the-night-picture-collector]

Alex Katz, Luna Park, 1965

[nemfrog]

Sun rays. The heavens illustrated. 1844.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[nemfrog]

Aurora Borealis. Peter Parley's wonders of the earth, sea, and sky. 1837. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Astronomia. 1829.

Composite chart consisting of a deck of 52 cards, each featuring celestial imagery.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[nemfrog]

"Photographs of Swift's Comet taken by Professor E. E. Barnard at the Lick Observatory with a 6-inch camera of 31 inches focus." Left to right, April 4, 6, and 7, 1892.

Knowledge. December 1, 1892.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

At about 500 kg., the largest meteorite ever observed to have come out of the sky at the time.

Origine et formation des mondes. 1922.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Solar and lunar eclipses. The heavens illustrated. 1844. Frontispiece.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[nemfrog]

Flustra cornata, consisting of colonies of simple marine invertebrate animals. Le monde de la mer. 1866.

Internet Archive

[donatoarts]

Started work on a new painting for the Two Trees of Valinor. I cannot share anything visually yet, but since landscape is the theme, here is a recent visit to the Wizard's Vale and Orthanc the home of Saruman.

Inspiration for this painting came from my rooftop in Brooklyn as I gazed at the dynamic clouds one stormy and blustery day, with our own modern Orthanc, the black and gold Brooklyn Tower in the background!

Crazy that I live within the ring of what could be the Wizard's Vale.

Orthanc

36" x 36" Oil on Panel 2024

private collection

[pmamtraveller]

by Hazel McNab

[nemfrog]

"Remarkable spots that have been discovered upon the sun." Smith's illustrated astronomy. 1850.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[tilthat]

TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.

via reddit.com

[fourlughero]

That’s such a fire fighter thing to do.

“You know what? That’s a good question. I’m gonna put you on hold while I find out”

[verdigrisvagabond]

My dad used to design kitchens at Lowe’s and one day he got a dude from one of the national labs looking to buy a countertop. Dad sent him home with a sample of a quartz-composite countertop to make sure the color will look good with his existing cabinets. The dude asks my dad what the composition of the countertop is and whether it’ll melt if he puts a pot on it (since it’s a composite and not pure stone) and Dad gives him some rough numbers and reassures him that it won’t melt if he puts a hot pan on the counter. The dude comes back with week later without the sample. The dude gives dad a detailed list of the countertops composition, to the nearest hundredth of a percentile, and the exact temperature it melts at, because he took it to his lab and melted it down. tldr, it’s not just firefighters.

[kaijuunibyou]

Imagine giving someone a sample of the granite you use to make countertops and they come back a few days later just to tell you they fucking dematerialized it

[ferrous-princess]

Ok, but this is just, like, what people do if they have access to equipment. We just… put shit in it. Just to see. At this point, I’ll try and hit just about anything with an arc, just to see. I’ll sand and polish anything you’ll let me, if I’m bored enough. If I had a machine that could melt something down and tell me exactly what was in it? I’d be just waiting for parts of my world to become “trash” so I could de-materialize it and turn it into knowledge of what it was.

[lai-gond]

i operate a [redacted dematerializing machine] for a living and it is indeed a joy to power it on, reduce various things to atoms, and find out what's up