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theoddmentemporium: blackpaint20: Burgfräulein von Strechau, by an unknown artist from the 17th century. The painting hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The legend (as far as I can determine from the German websites I’ve deciphered with the help of Google Translate) tells that in the late Middle Ages a damsel waited for her lover who left to the Holy Land to fight the infidels. The lady promised that if he did not return she would enter a monastery. Despite her promise, she married another man and when the bride came to the festival her face changed to a skull and devilish figures appeared and pulled her down to hell in front of all the guests. The legend is derived from a poem. This is also a good photograph of the painting, via Flickr. I’ve been looking for this for ages!

theoddmentemporium:

blackpaint20:

Burgfräulein von Strechau, by an unknown artist from the 17th century. The painting hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

The legend (as far as I can determine from the German websites I’ve deciphered with the help of Google Translate) tells that in the late Middle Ages a damsel waited for her lover who left to the Holy Land to fight the infidels. The lady promised that if he did not return she would enter a monastery. Despite her promise, she married another man and when the bride came to the festival her face changed to a skull and devilish figures appeared and pulled her down to hell in front of all the guests.

The legend is derived from a poem.

This is also a good photograph of the painting, via Flickr.

I’ve been looking for this for ages!

thebluthcompany:

malevine5:

Sticking gum to a fucking $6300 dollar jacket? COME ON! lol

Déjà vu anyone?

This cast is basically perfect.

thebluthcompany: That jury’s gonna *love* you. Copyright 2013 Catherine A. Moore Illustration & Design

thebluthcompany:

That jury’s gonna *love* you.

Copyright 2013 Catherine A. Moore Illustration & Design

fuckyeahcrystals: Epidote, Ca2Al2(Fe3+;Al)(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH). The anisotropy, or directional asymmetry, of epidote causes the stone to appear different colors from different directions. The crystal structure bends light differently depending on the path, appearing to you as a color change. This picture shows a bluish-green for the crystals on the left, and a more yellow-green on the right.

fuckyeahcrystals:

Epidote, Ca2Al2(Fe3+;Al)(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH).

The anisotropy, or directional asymmetry, of epidote causes the stone to appear different colors from different directions. The crystal structure bends light differently depending on the path, appearing to you as a color change.

This picture shows a bluish-green for the crystals on the left, and a more yellow-green on the right.

(via scinerds)

ginseng-and-honey:

In September 2012, hundreds of amateur and professional photographers had the rare opportunity to explore and photograph accelerators and detectors at particle physics laboratories around the world. 

The top 39 photographs from the Photowalk, including the six winners of the jury and “people’s choice” competitions, are now viewable online.

“The worldwide opening of the physics laboratories for the Photowalk has been an excellent opportunity for showing the real places of physics research,” says Antonio Zoccoli, a member of the executive board at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. “The Photowalk tells us that scientific research is a global enterprise, which brings together intelligence, resources and technologies from different countries toward a common goal.

“Photowalk winners show modern beauty of science”
Photos viewable here [x]

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ikenbot: Baku Analemma One full year of solar motion is captured in this multi-exposure analemma image from shore of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan. Image by Tunc Tezel Analemma is the figure “8” loop that results when one observes the position of the sun at the same time of day over the course of a year. The 23.5° tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation and its elliptical orbit about the sun result in the apparent change in the sun’s location in the sky when observed at the same location at the same time of day over a year’s time. For this image the photos are all made during the local noon. The highest point shows the sun near the day of Summer Solstice (June 21) and the lowest marks the shortest days near the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21).

ikenbot:

Baku Analemma

One full year of solar motion is captured in this multi-exposure analemma image from shore of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Image by Tunc Tezel

Analemma is the figure “8” loop that results when one observes the position of the sun at the same time of day over the course of a year. The 23.5° tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation and its elliptical orbit about the sun result in the apparent change in the sun’s location in the sky when observed at the same location at the same time of day over a year’s time.

For this image the photos are all made during the local noon. The highest point shows the sun near the day of Summer Solstice (June 21) and the lowest marks the shortest days near the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21).

(via scinerds)