Brainstem and spinal cord discovered in Michelangelo
Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator, published in the May Neurosurgery, may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes’ figures.
I read this book when I was ten. It was probably one of the last Bellairs books I read…that is, until I re-read a few of them as an adult.
The Secret of the Underground Room by John Bellairs was published in 1990 by Dial Books for Young Readers. Edward Gorey created the dust jacket artwork for this title.
via The Long Now:
A stunning painting of a possible future (or present depending on how you look at it)… walled cities of techno-utopia surrounded by the rest of the world living in the middle ages. Here is a link to the large version on Zilinzky’s site. (Found via Coolvibe.)
Etching by Clint Fulkerson
Artist Clint Fulkerson drawing. (via)
Too bad this poster wasn’t being serious.
Simple poster design by Olly Moss for the videogame podcast, A Life Well Wasted.
These paintings by Josh Keyes are wonderful. I had a hard time picking just one to show. There are many, many interesting works.
via BLDGBLOG:
By Tsunehisa Kumura, from Tsunehisa Kumura’s Visual Scandals by Photomontage
Gauguin painted this, “D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous” or (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?) in 1897 after receiving news of his daughter’s death.
From Sister Wendy, who says it all:
This is Gauguin’s ultimate masterpiece - if all the Gauguins in the world, except one, were to be evaporated (perish the thought!), this would be the one to preserve. He claimed that he did not think of the long title until the work was finished, but he is known to have been creative with the truth. The picture is so superbly organized into three “scoops” - a circle to right and to left, and a great oval in the center - that I cannot but believe he had his questions in mind from the start. I am often tempted to forget that these are questions, and to think that he is suggesting answers, but there are no answers here; there are three fundamental questions, posed visually.
via Core77: a dry-erase persian rug
I really liked it, too. I love the idea of “pairings.”
The cover for the newest New Yorker is really, really, really fantastic.
Also, New Yorker on Tumblr! Hoorah!
I love this picture (and others like it from Marco Mucig). There’s something in the zeitgeist about how books are interacting with our modern world, and vice versa, how we’re interacting with books. The web, in that it is a network of stories, is almost a web of books, and this image is kind of like what that might look like if those “books” that float in the ether were visual.
Incidentally, I created an image very much like this for my last article on how Storytelling is the Future of the Web…
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