Hello! I have been preparing some exciting projects with a very talented artist called Hora van Eiken ,he creates most of his time stopmotion animations with The Hylas film , an underground collective of film makers based in Berlin .
For this collaboration we have decided to start with this Rowsell graphoscope, maybe in the future we will work together to design new models based on this first attempt .
Description:
Graphoscope is an optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc .
It was patented on 1st February 1864 in England by Charles John Rowsell. This apparatus enhanced the viewing of photos and text through a single large magnifying glass. They were often built with elaborate decoration in a wooden frame, and you could collapse them into a compact rectangular form for storage or transportation. In the 19th century, parlors of many French and English homes featured a table with optical toys such as stereoviewer, stereoscope or graphoscope.
After making our respective investigations, we have come to the conclusion that no one has ever tried to rebuild this interesting object for at least hundred years.
Microlite
ink on paper , 2012 .
This piece belongs to my “one day” drawings serie .
Photo and caption by Magdalena Biskup
Yerebatan Sarai is the most unusual place I have ever seen. Most of the time it is empty, but I happened to be there when it was decorated and magical music was playing. Built in the 6th century, it’s the largest of several hundred cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Cisterns were typically used for water storage, and Yerebatan Sarayi once provided water for the Great Palace of Constantinople.
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
source : nationalgeographic
Claviorganum
1598, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This tiny instrument incorporates an organ and a virginal built into an ebony tabletop chest of drawers. The lower keyboard manual is for the organ, and levers at the left of the keyboard serve as stops. A pair of bellows is concealed beneath the top of the chest; two ranks of flue pipes and a regal (reed) stop are arranged behind the drawers in the back. The upper keyboard belongs to a removable octave virginal. The instrument is tuned to approximately A=445. Above the keyboards is a small door with a lock and two carved columns flanking a brass relief panel depicting the Deposition from the Cross. The instrument was constructed by Laurentium Hauslaib during the time that he served at the court of Frederick IV, elector of the Palatinate, and was probably intended for domestic use.
This would make an awesome cabinet of curiosities.
time-lapse of my drawing Unravel
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Sorry but i coulndt resist to post this song ,it make me so happy to be alive .
Diamond Weevil’s Rainbow Bling Really Is Diamond, says Wired Science. (Or at least, it’s chitin arranged in a diamond formation, which still counts.)
I had no idea this weevil existed, but it is clearly the coolest weevil ever.
(via theothersideofthebear)
Isobel
©Meyoko
Andromeda
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Hunter 5
acrylic,gel ink , gold on paper
29,7 x 42 cm 2011
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