An anamorphic portrait of actor Sotigui Kouyate consisting of a roomful of various objects, only viewable from one vantage point. By Bernard Pras; there is a video of the installation being constructed.
I was quite upset this morning to learn that Scottish science fiction author Iain Banks has been told that he has terminal cancer and has only a few months left to live.
Banks is one of my favourite “modern” SF writers and, in my opinion, one of the best working in the genre today.
Although his website is suffering under the load of heavy traffic, Orbit Books has a mirror of his personal statement about this news.
“The Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8”, published 1862.
“Among those present are Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), discoverer of hydrogen and the decomposition of water; John Dalton (1766-1844), discoverer of atomic theory; Humphry Davy (1778-1844), discoverer of sodium, potassium, barium, and magnesium; William Herschel (1738-1822), discoverer of Uranus; Edward Jenner (1749-1823), creator of the smallpox vaccination; Count Rumford (1753-1814), the American science teacher named Benjamin Thompson, who founded the Royal Institution; and James Watt (1738-1819), inventor of the steam engine.”
Illustrations from “Les Songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel, où sont contenues plusieurs figures de l’invention de maistre François Rabelais, et dernière oeuvre d’iceluy, pour la récréation des bons esprits”.
Attributed to French engraver François Desprez, 1565.
Viewable online on the BNF’s website.
Accent theme by Handsome Code
