It really bugs me when I see art nouveau in the art deco tag, and vice versa.
Linear symmetry, geometric shapes, streamlined, 1920-30s - DECO
Assymetrical flowing curves, organic elements, ca. 1890-1910 - NOUVEAU
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I checked the click-through for this, and these walls are HAND PAINTED.
The rest of the room is totally gorgeous…
Been looking for a decent scan of this image forever! Poster from the Zelda: Majora’s Mask guide book. I’m one of those weirdos who prefers it to Ocarina of Time.
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Photos of Abandoned and Mysterious Yugoslavian Monuments by Jan Kempenaers.
ooh, i’ve only seen one or two of these …
(Source: 3mncptr)
Kodak’s Cold War-Era Pinkstagram
The image you’re looking at is from Richard Mosse’s book Infra. It’s a collection of images in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo taken with infrared-sensitive film. Cool stuff. But why does it look this way?
Aerochrome is a Kodak film developed for aerial military surveillance. Its job was to pick out camouflage from surrounding vegetation. Healthy vegetation shows up as pink, and non-plant material shows up as darker blues.
It works because plants absorb blue and red wavelengths of light to fuel photosynthesis. They are green to our eyes because they reflect green light away from their leaves. But they also reflect infrared light, we just can’t see it with the naked eye. A tank painted like the forest won’t reflect infrared light in the same way a real tree will.
Military folks aren’t the only ones who use this. Check out how NASA uses infrared photography to study vegetation from space, and to image far-off planets.
Eee, thanks for this! I’ve seen this photo several times, and always wondered. There was nothing on the site about it … happy to have an explanation.
