Tag Archives: Art

2014: A Train Goes Somewhere

Posted on May 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

Animated gif by Julien Douvier; more here. This one isn’t dated; 2014 is my best guess.

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2016: Mind of My Mind

Posted on May 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Jude Palencar: Mind of My Mind (2016) (source)

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2001: 300 Love Letters

Posted on May 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

“So I’m telling this boy, one of the boys that lots of these love letters are to, about this project. ‘I’m writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the … Continue reading →

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1862: Cotopaxi Erupts

Posted on May 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Frederic Edwin Church: Cotopaxi (1862) Cotopaxi is one of the world’s highest volcanoes, located in the Andes Mountains about thirty miles south of Quito. It has erupted more then 50 times since 1738, the resulting lahars (mudflows) forming numerous valleys … Continue reading →

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1895: Melancholy

Posted on May 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Magnus Enkell: Melancholie (1895) (source)

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2013: The Huge Buddha Head

Posted on May 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Hua Weicheng: The Huge Buddha Head (2013) From the series End of Ashes (here)

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2003: Bureaucracies Around the World

Posted on May 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

From Jan Bannings’ Bureaucratics series. “Sushma Prasad (b. 1962) is an assistant clerk at the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar (population 83 million) in The Old Secretariat in the state capital, Patna. She was hired “on compassionate grounds” … Continue reading →

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1891: Midnight on the Somme

Posted on May 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jean-Charles Cazin: Midnight (1891) (source) The Catalogue from Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago, U. S. A (1893) provides the following description: The scene is located at Abbeville, on the river Somme, in France. One is readily impressed with the … Continue reading →

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16th Century: The Throne Verse of the Qur’an as a Horse

Posted on May 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

This is the post excerpt. Continue reading →

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