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Curiosities: Ernst Haeckel
The second week of each month, I’ll be sharing things that are a little more curiosities and a little less design.Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist and evolutionist. Originally, He became a doctor...
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Curiosities: Dorothy Sturm
Before quality photomicrographic techniques were available, the educational community relied on images drawn by artists to translate what was seen under a microscope. Dorothy Sturm was an artist during...
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Curiosities: Malformed
You’ve probably seen Adam Voorhes’s photography before, specifically the series of photos of exploded objects. He recently posted photographs of a new project he is working on. It’s called Malformed,...
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Curiosities: G,a,r,d,e,n Ruler
I’ve mentioned Norihiko Terayama and his Awaglass before. He recently held his first solo exhibition in North America at Mjölk called My Garden. My favorite pieces were his garden rulers. For these, he...
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Curiosities: Chema Madoz
The photographic work of Chema Madoz is delightfully clever. The photographs are simple and refined, always in black and white. The subject matter is surreal and created, not photoshopped, which is...
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Curiosities: City of Shadows
Even the criminals look dapper back in the early 20th century. Looking at these photographs, you’d hardly think they were mugshots. They are dated from 1912 to 1948, and come from New South Wales...
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The white noise and the flickering lights in this video are completely captivating. It’s a high speed recording taken by Adam Magyar at a station in Toykyo. The whole recording is actually 11 seconds...
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Curiosities: Harry Clarke’s Illustrations
Harry Clarke was a stained glass artist and book illustrator from Ireland. His father owned a decorating business, and Harry grew up with a studio right at arms length. He is renowned in Ireland as a...
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Curiosities: Amy Judd
Amy Judd’s paintings are exquisite and a great example of contemporary surrealism. The clothing or lack there of in some cases is really breath-taking; the way she paints the female form is lovely. In...
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Curiosities: Hoya
These ethereal blooms are from a plant called a Hoya. The genus was named by botanist Robert Brown in honor of Thomas Hoy who was a gardner at the Syon House for 40 years. Brown spent about half of a...
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Curiosities: Cosmonauts
There is an incredible collection of cosmonaut gear and other soviet space memorabilia coming available at auction in a few days. It falls on the 55th anniversary of the first successful landing of a...
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Curiosities: Photographs of Creatives
There is something to viewing art without the preconceived notions of how the artist looks; it’s free of judgement. Maybe this is why I’ve always been drawn to photographs of aging painters and other...
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Curiosities: Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins is widely recognized as the first woman to create a photo, and the first person to ever publish a book with photographic illustrations. The book was created to accompany a manual of...
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Curiosities: Queens Museum Panorama
If you ever visit NYC, I’d consider hitting the Queens Museum for a great view of the scaled down city and boroughs. The 9335 square foot, 1:1200 scale miniature was created for the 1964 world’s fair,...
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Curiosities: Nuotraukos Dokumentams
Vytautas Stanionis was a Lithuanian photographer who got his start while he was a patient at a tuberculosis sanitarium. Over the course of his life, his continually poor health did not deter him from...
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Curiosities: Harriet Lee-Merrion
Harriet Lee-Merrion’s illustrations are made up of beautifully simple line work, some drastic angles, and a distinct color palate. She is part of a group of illustrators in Falmouth, Beginning, Middle...
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Curiosities: Émil Brusgch
The information I was able to find on Émil Brusgch was limited. He was a German Egyptologist who spent over 40 years at Boulak Museum as an assistant conservator. At some point in his career he was...
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Curiosities: Amy Bennett
Amy Bennett constructs a narrative in miniatures and then paints it. The result is something strange and unique. The detail of the paintings looks both real an faux, and the high unusual angles are...
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Curiosities: Viktor Wynd’s Cabinet of Wonders
Viktor Wynd is a collector, but he sees it as an enjoyable burden and a sickness. His book is a look into his home, his shop, and a peek into a few other collections. There is a chaos in these images,...
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Curiosities: Xu Yong, Negatives
“Unlike digital photographs, which can be manipulated, negatives never lie,” Xu Yong on his most recent work, Negatives. It is a collection of 64 previously unpublished photographs from the protests...
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