So many yesses!
These photos are of violinist Jascha Heifetz as photographed by Gjon Mili in 1952 for LIFE Magazine.
Those squiggles are exactly what you suspect they are — a light attached to Jascha’s bow.
Thanks, Darrell!
Love.
Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.
Yes, please!
Sorry, guys, you can’t buy these books. But aren’t they cool? Emily G. A. Moody asked her graphic design students at Kapi’olani Community College to pick three Radiolab episodes and imagine how they would look as books. You can see more of the resulting trilogies here.
(Above: designs by Christian Anuloa, Frank Cabrera, Rosie Eckerman, Hirona Ogawa, Reyna Nishimura, and Mika Yogi)
Merry’s ancestry includes the word murgijaz, a Proto-Germanic word meaning ‘short-lasting,’ and the Proto-Indo-European root mreghu- which simply meant ‘short.’ It is suggested that the connection to pleasure comes from the notion of ‘making time fly’ — that time feels short in a pleasurable state. So within merry, the ideas of enjoyment and evanescence find themselves inextricably linked. To wish someone a ‘Merry Christmas,’ in the very old sense, is to wish them pleasure and to express a hope that they’ll savor that pleasure acutely before it passes.
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| — | From the always wonderful Aesthetics of Joy. A belated Merry Christmas, a premature Happy New Year, and a general Delightful Holidays to you all! |
Solar system quilt, made by astronomer Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa in 1876 – early citizen science meets science-inspired art.
“Ellen used the quilt as a visual aid for lectures she gave on astronomy in the towns of West Branch, Moscow, and Lone Tree, Iowa. Astronomy was an acceptable interest for women in the nineteenth century and was sometimes even fostered in their education.”
