Bausch & Lomb Balopticon ad, 1915.
“The balopticon is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often—and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
- Norman Rockwell
Raven, early 18th century, fashioned of hammered and embossed steel by master metalsmith Myōchin Munesuke.
Part of the Metropolitan Museum’s “Birds in the Art of Japan” exhibition.
Illustrations, mostly by Frank R. Paul, for the second issue of Amazing Stories, May 1926. Authors include Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe,
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.
Accent theme by Handsome Code