all the way home.

Personal blog of Squidling. She, 30s, into some very gross things in addition to the handicrafts. Mostly queue.

[dorkvania]

Skeletons of Portland

[seabeck]

Felled 

[cryptid-corpse]

Can't stop thinking about this glassware collection. Last night I dreamt I held you in my arms.

[lustik]

Islands by Yvan Duque.

Artists on tumblr

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

[pwlanier]

Unidentified, Whaler’s Quilt, n.d., cotton, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[aqua-regia009]

Death of William the Conqueror, 1885. — Albert Maignan (French, 1845-1908)

[rthwrms]

incoming secret message from ur secret message angel

[cupc8keblonde]

[guooey]

[sashaforthewin]

Wow, my quality of life just skyrocketed looking at those well organized quails

[theriu]

A clovey of quail

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Ngl, very pleased with this one

[momosweetpeach]

An Ode to the Artifacts of Inefficiency

[aukkenopsia]

SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE DEAD

Comm I did for Antdroids1 on twitter! 

[cochleacochlea]

Invaved.

©Mio Im

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[montereybayaquarium]

Sit and simmer in the simple sea-renity of this scintillating sunburst anemone from our Splash Zone.

[alibrariangoestoikea]

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

[alibrariangoestoikea]

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

[vinceaddams]

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

[sepdet]

Every once in a while someone rediscovers that the relationship between Jacquard Looms and modern computers, an intuitive leap originally made by mathematician Ada Lovelace while writing an extensive discussion of Babbage’s calculating machine.

“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

– Ada Lovelace, 1843

Babbage was using it to add numbers. Lovelace went further and suggested that anything one could represented by numbers, such as music, could then be manipulated, transformed and generated (“woven”) according to equations, algorithms and steps programmed in by punchcards in the same way the looms made repeating patterns.

!20 years later, the computers in the Apollo spacecraft that took astronauts to the moon were given “rope-core memory”: fabric-like networks of wire hand-woven by women recruited from textile factories, because it was the most information-dense and durable way they had to store information and computer instructions (far higher density than transistors) at the time.

it was never used again, but it’s a nice link back to the technology which made that book, eh?

[ruffboi-mags]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I haven’t seen anyone talking about this on my dash so HEADS UP BUTTERCUPS!

NIMONA MOVIE OUT JUNE 30TH ON NETFLIX!!!!!!! :D :D :D

I’m beside myself it looks so good :D

[elodieunderglass]

Tumblr’s own oc getting a movie! We live in exciting times.

[femmenietzsche]

Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process

Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.

Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about  200,000 years ago—and it was tough. This ancient superglue made bone and stone adhere to wood, was waterproof, and didn’t decompose. The tar was also used a hundred thousand years before modern humans came up with anything synthetic. After studying ancient tools that carry residue from this glue, a team of researchers from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and other institutions in Germany found evidence that this glue wasn’t just the original tar; it had been transformed in some way. This raises the question of what was involved in that transformation. To see how Neanderthals could have converted birch tar into glue, the research team tried several different processing methods. Any suspicion that the tar came directly from birch trees didn’t hold up because birch trees do not secrete anything that worked as an adhesive. So what kind of processing was needed? Each technique that was tested used only materials that Neanderthals would have been able to access. Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques used—allowing bark to burn above ground doesn’t really involve much thought beyond lighting a fire. The other methods involved a recipe where the bark was not actually burned but heated after being placed underground. Two of these methods involved burying rolls of bark in embers that would heat them and produce tar. The third method would distill the tar. Because there were no ceramics during the Stone Age, sediment was shaped into upper and lower structures to hold the bark, which was then heated by fire. Distilled tar would slowly drip from the upper structure into the lower one. The resulting tars were all put through chemical and molecular analysis, as well as micro-CT scans, to determine which came closest to the residue on actual Neanderthal tools. Tars synthesized underground were closest to the residue on the original artifacts. “[Neanderthals] distilled tar in an intentionally created underground environment that restricted oxygen flow and remained invisible during the process,” the researchers wrote. “This degree of complexity is unlikely to have been invented spontaneously.”

[andmaybegayer]

Weeping with joy over the idea of a Neanderthal industrial engineer