Category: Images
Pictures, drawings, paintings
Starting with a recording of raindrops hitting the skylight in his old apartment, this track titled Order from Chaos from London-based artist Max Cooper‘s newest album Emergence is the culmination of three years work merging his interests in science, music and visual arts. French visual effects artist Maxime Causeret was asked to provide the visuals and the result is a mesmerizing blend of biological simulations and music video. Cellular forms appear to collide, merge, and even compete for resources while brain-like structures explode and crash across the screen.
Classic. Extra long cord for the handset: Luxury!
“Boy on bicycle ca. 1895-1916” is the improvised title of this 5×7 dry plate from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C., whose legacy is a collection of some 30,000 glass negatives recently digitized and catalogued by the Library of Congress after spending the better part of a century in “a succession of basements and farm buildings.”
Chicago circa 1912. “The busy crowd on State Street.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Washington, D.C., 1925. “Snow removal — Ford Motor Co. (Fordson) tractor, Pennsylvania Avenue.” National Photo glass negative.
Another view: The Landsat 7 satellite acquired this image of snow in North Africa on December 19, 2016. The scene shows an area near the border of Morocco and Algeria, south of the city of Bouarfa and southwest of Ain Sefra. Image via NASA Earth Observatory.
Ladder of success
FALLING LIMBS-Tom Hoetschl, of Oshkosh, helps cut down a storm damaged tree on his brother-in-laws property in the 700 block of Wright St., Tuesday, June 12, 2001. Hoetschl felled an eight foot limb, which bounced, jarring his ladder, sending him flying 15 feet to the ground. Fortunately Hoetschl was not seriously injured in the fall.
Olympic caliber?
I have no idea of the relationship between these three, but they look straight out of a Hollywood gangster film, or maybe everyone back then looked like they were in a gangster film. From a box of found Kodachrome slides.
The colorized Christmas tree is back, 113 years after its debut in Madison Square. Happy holidays from Shorpy!
New York, December 1913. “Christmas tree, Madison Square.” 8×10 inch glass negative, Bain News Service.
“Each time of life has its own kind of love.”
Leo Tolstoy
Once Upon a Solstice Eve
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Once upon a solstice eve a little prince gazed across a frozen little planet at the edge of a large galaxy. The little planet was planet Earth of course, seen in this horizon to horizon, nadir to zenith projection, a digitally stitched mosaic from the shores of the Sec reservoir in the Czech Republic. So the large galaxy must be the Milky Way, and the brightest beacon on the planet’s horizon Venus, visible around the globe as this season’s brilliant evening star. Celestial treasures in surrounding dark skies include the Pleiades star cluster, and the North America nebula found along a dusty galactic rift. Embracing Venus, Zodiacal light traces a faint band across the night, but the more colorful pillars of light shine above streets a little closer to home.
Larry Sessions: Was the Christmas Star real?
Regulus and Leo I dwarf galaxy. Image via Russell Croman
Circa 1925. “Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy.” The cows were pastured somewhere near Philadelphia, their milk processed at George Oyster’s dairy plant on Connecticut Avenue in Washington. 8×10 inch glass negative.
“Dickey Christmas tree, 1915.” The family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey, whose somewhat unhinged holiday photos are a Christmas tradition here at Shorpy. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
