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#Youtube

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#cleveland #arcade

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#duolingo

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Cabinet Circulaire Art Déco en verre et noyer, Britannique, 1930. Concepteur inconnu (Crédit photo someartdecolove [IG]). - source Sally Jo.

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Porte de l’Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus à Wattrelos, France Architecte Charles Bourgeois 1927. Céramiste Charles Fourmaintraux-Delassus. Photo Christian Phalempin. - source Cristina Ardelean.

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Gustave Caillebotte

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Costume of a Harlequin (costume of Harlequin, jacket). Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

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Popular Science Monthly, February 1918

#put that on your resume or CV #a lifetime playing dead?

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St. Louis Jain Temple at Castaways, ‘60s/70s

In the early 1900s the British government employed a team of artisans to build this structure, a 35-foot high, 15 x 20-foot square teak wood replica of a Jain Temple in Palitana, India, for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, aka the St. Louis World’s Fair ‘04. The structure was shipped to the U.S. for the expo. When it was over the temple was dismantled and marked for shipment back to England. For unknown reasons it was never returned.

An art dealer bought the object at auction and it was in turn purchased by Ben Jaffe in 1963 for display at the Castaways Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where it would be dubbed the “Gateway to Luck.”

“This is the first time in almost 60 years that the East Indian art treasure has been taken from the storage crates in which it was packed at the closing of the St. Louis Expo … Coins tossed in the well for luck will be donated to the Boys Youth Camp at Spring Mountain.” (Las Vegas Review Journal, 8/29/63.)

When Castways closed in the late 80s, the temple was boxed up again. It was acquired by the Jain Center of Southern California and reassembled at their headquarters in Buena Park, CA.

Undated postcards, photo c. 1970s. Black & white photos by Edward Allen Photographers via Castaways Collection, UNLV Special Collections. “Castaways.” Review Journal, 8/29/63; T. Drumm. “Priceless Art Relic Symbolizes East Indian Jain Culture” Review Journal 12/1/63; “Gateway to Luck.” pluralism.org.

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Harry Price waiting to confirm if a goat can turn into a handsome young man, through a maiden pure in heart, during a full moon night, Brocken, Germany, 1932 Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-13579 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Wooden case containing set of 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin, 1831

Full set of sixty miniature heads designed for learning the positions of the phrenological organs in a wide variety of differently shaped heads with each head displaying one or more well-developed and/or deficient organs. The set was endorsed by Bally's friend Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) the co-founder of phrenology who also wrote the notes for each head in the accompanying booklet.

Science Museum

#phrenology #debunked

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The red-winged blackbird’s song is deeply comforting and familiar it’s like walking into the marsh and hearing an old friend

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Castellfollit de La Roca, Spain

The basalt crag where the town is situated is over 50 meters (160 feet) high and almost a kilometer long. It was formed by the overlaying of two lava flows.

© Museum of Artifacts

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Saul Steinberg Portrait of Sculptor Alexander Calder, New York City 1946

"I was talking with Calder one day in his studio when suddenly a 'mobile' beside me, which until then had been quiet, became violently agitated. I stepped quickly back; thinking to be out of its reach. But then, when the agitation had ceased and it appeared to have relapsed into quiescence, its long, majestic tail, which until then had not budged, began mournfully to wave, and, sweeping through the air, brushed across my face. These hesitations, resumptions, gropings, clumsiness's, the sudden decisions and above all that swan-like grace make of certain 'mobiles' very strange creatures indeed, something midway between matter and life. At moments they seem endowed with an intention; a moment later they appear to have forgotten what they intended to do, and finish by merely swaying inanely..." Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946

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Animals depicted in Mexican currency

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Pants are more practical for female anatomy while skirts and dresses are better suited for male anatomoy, yet we insist on the reverse.

#anatomy #but male occupations prob dictated pants as often more practical?

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Getting a tattoo has gone from an act of individuality to a sign of conformity

#be unique and don't get one #think for yourself and don't get one :)