anarchaia:
Sketch of snow crystal by René Descartes (thanks to U.)
“Descartes est le premier, en 1635, à décrire précisément plusieurs formes de cristaux de neige.” - http://unpalombaro.tumblr.com/post...
One day last week a marvelous apparition was seen near Coney Island. At the height of at least a thousand feet in the air, a strange object was in the act of flying toward the New Jersey coast. It was apparently a man with bat’s wings and improved frog’s legs. The face of the man could be distinctly seen, and it wore a cruel and determined... - http://unpalombaro.tumblr.com/post...
uncertaintimes:
crashinglybeautiful: liquidnight:
Lord Snowdon - Vladimir Nabokov, 1972
From Photographs By Snowdon - http://unpalombaro.tumblr.com/post...
uncertaintimes: It’s 1922. Captain John Noel sets up his kinematograph camera at 23,000ft on the Chang La, or North Col, pass that connects Mount Everest to Chantse in Tibet. But what’s his 20in telephoto lens resting on? Behind the tripod is the steadying influence of an almost invisible Sherpa. What’s more, the unidentified photographer who took... - http://unpalombaro.tumblr.com/post...