Tear Those Mountains Down

a gee-it-really-sucks-that-google-reader-removed-its-social-functions blog maintained by janina a larenas printmaker, bookmaker, storyteller, image taker, food preserver, recipe writer, jack of many

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Condylactis gigantea

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Lactophrys triqueter

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Trifolium (Clover).

Illustrations taken from ‘Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae’ by H.G. Ludwig Reichenbach. Published 1838-1839.

New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://archive.org/details/iconesfloraegerm20reic

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Beautiful Spring Flowers (Tulips, Narcissus, Iris) taken from ‘Les Liliacees’ by Pierre-Joseph Redouté.  Published 1802  ‘Chez l'auteur.’

Missouri Botanical Garden Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002806690

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Frontispiece. Southern hemisphere surface-air circulation. 1910.

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Enzo Mari, 1967

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Janko Domsic

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Tin Can Forest

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http://bluesonplanetmars.tumblr.com

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Art Meets Cartography: The 15,000-Year History of a River in Oregon Rendered in Data

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Just FYI. Every Friday is Black Friday though. The Baldwin is sold, but the rest of these are still available at my Storenvy, the π shop. Ink, Bristol, Ziptone

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;)

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Haha, @officialdeathgrips, you know the MC Ride joint is part of the artists collection tho, right?!

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Fig. 168. Hand shadows on the wall. _Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry_ 1883

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Drawing for a New Year’s Card ( 1890-1928) by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928).

Image and text courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Comet Henry _Publications of the Morrison Observatory, Glasgow, Missouri_ 1887

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On the site of Les Humanoïdes Associés there are quite a few cool (HD) wallpapers by Moebius, Yves Challand, Juan Gimenez, etc…

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Mount Analogue

After I wrote about Daphne du Maurier’s “Monte Verità” in September, a kind reader sent me a note:I wonder if du Maurier knew Daumal’s Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing, also 1952 (in French). Not translated to English until 1959, by Roger Shattuck (of course, du Maurier undoubtedly read French). Many... Read More »

René Daumal died young, of tuberculosis, before completing Mount Analogue.