3 years agosuicideblonde: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite “The Enchanted Forest by Grenbry Outhwaite” (1921)
3 years agosuicideblonde: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite “The Enchanted Forest by Grenbry Outhwaite” (1921)
… and to send you off to Slumberland, here’s Jan Czerwinski’s Mond, also an oil painting - from 2008.
3 years ago
La lune by John Adams Whipple & Georges Philips Bond (26 Feb 1852, Cambridge, observatoire du collège d’Harvard)
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3 years agoGustave Doré - Illustration from an edition of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
[This was the last book illustrated by Gustave Doré]
(via:nevver:Quote the raven)
Hand Held Moon by Anne Eastman, 2009. Single channel digital video loop, no sound, projected on black wood board. (via VVORK)
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Moon Model Prepared by Johann Fried, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door ,”Geology,” not completely visible. Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898.
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*adds “colossal moon model” to Christmas wish list*
3 years ago
Voici la lune, the moon, der Mond.
In German, moon is a masculine noun and the sun is feminine.
You might find this the most boring fact of the day, but that’s only because you don’t understand the beauty of etymology. :)
3 years ago