Tag: art
Sola Busca Tarot (1491)
Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — was the first to be produced using copperplate engraving. It is also the earliest known tarot deck that illustrates the Major and Minor Trumps in the way that has become the standard, with characters and objects depicting allegorical scenes. In the Renaissance era this would have been revolutionary, while, today, some of these cards may seem familiar.
[Full size images and the history of the deck found here.]
Rusty the Cat
[Found here. Original source / artist unknown.]
Bicycle
[Functional sculpture by Riccardo Dalisi, found here.]
Pillowman
[Found here, with the caption “I found a photo, I don’t know who this man is, it was edited in GPT.“
Vomit Clocks
Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
“A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.“
The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.
[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]
Repurposed Bathyscaphe?
[Found here. Original source unknown, likely an A.I. image.]
Hebetating Hot Links
Nitro, Dick Dale (1994) The Father of Surf Guitar, left-handed speed picker Richard Anthony Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, originally wanted to be a country singer before becoming the master blaster of the Stratocaster.
Pistol Pete [h/t Donna M.]
Aron Wiesenfeld’s Post-It Notes.
“Do it! Do it!” [via Everlasting Blört].
A link dump that’s almost as good as this one.
Cuddles Newsome and the Flat Mountain Boys [h/t Jaime G.]
Ancient meanders of the lower Mississippi [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: High Flyer, Chet Phillips, date unknown.]
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Tacky Raccoons 