(http://worldinsport.com/2010/11/sportswomen-of-past-homage-with-vintage-html/)
omg sports are all of a sudden cool. My favourite is the tennis lady who showed her elbows and ankles.
This article has awesome awesome pics of old time ladies playing (and posing) sports!
1925 - Tina Modotti.
I still have another astronomy post and a new line up of mexi-things. But I don’t have time and this photo doesn’t fit in anywhere but i just love it. Where did they find a sickle in 1925 mexico? if Tina had been legit she woulda used a machete. I find it such an interesting example of other countries’ ideals being projected onto Mexico, and such an interesting part of history when Mexico was the future of socialism just for a sec. AMLO ain’t got nothin’ on the 1920s.
don’t hate the adorable suit wearing record breaking skater, hate the olympics (if you want).
In honour of the gigantic moon tonight, here is a post about moons. I get chills when I think of how long the moon has looked like it does, and how much we draw it, photograph it, make up stories about it, etc and it is still just the same, while earth looks more different every day. It would be interesting to compare drawings from the 1500’s and see if there are new craters or something.
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2 of galileo’s moons.
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18th century moon:
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1860s moons: The moon got photographed a lot at the beginning of photography, because the correct exposure for capturing moon is exactly the same as photographing an object in the sun, because moonlight is all reflected light from the sun all the time:
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So ok this one isn’t the moon, but it is the first ever photograph of the sun (citation needed), from 1830:
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De la rue’s moon (1862)
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Henry Drapper’s moon (1863):
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A E Nelson’s moon (1865):
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More recently:
NASA’s moon, being all, “hey 1860s, your telescopes suck, love, NASA”:
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One of Saturn’s moons peeking out from behing another one of Saturn’s moons, being all “hey earth, your single moon sucks, love Saturn” taken from Cassini (maybe?):
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My computer’s moon and its various satelites:
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Gowan’s moon (PS for this post i expect everybody to be listening to Gowan’s Moonlight Desires, plz thnx)
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Teotihuacan’s moon, just because I don’t think Gowan does a very good job of showing it:
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In the name of the moon:
Happy super moon night!
Documentation in astronomy is so exciting to me because, like photography, it is the documentation of light (except that it is light that comes from really really far away), all scientific, informative, abstract, silly:
types of nebula, etching, 1870.
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Great Orion’s Nebula, photograph, 1883 (Andrew Commons was this amateur but super rich astronomer who constructed a gigantic telescope and devoted all of his money and efforts to just this nebula, like Orion was his far away soulmate. He got an award for this picture because his exposure time was the lowest for celestial photography in 1883, of 37 minutes).
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de la Rue’s daguerreotype of the solar eclipse of 1860.
Map of light: Harper’s Weekly maps out the trajectory of the eclipse of 1860. (Aside: dear newspapers of the 2000s, please have more front page news that is eclipse related).
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What an eclipse would look like above an island? go science.
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plans for the first Karl Zeiss telescope! (aka evil robot to rule the world).
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Russian astronomers trying to capture the eclipse of 1907 visible from siberia (ps if you are an astronomer in Russia you have to be super hardcore, pps if you were a photographer in Russia you had to be super hardcore).
Total eclipse of the sun visible from the USA, July 18, 1860.
gif the crap out of it.
Aztec monument of Tlaloc in the Museo de Antropologia, DF.
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why do we have such a strong impulse to stand on old stuff?
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In San Miguel Coatlinchan 50 years ago, these kids and a dog were sitting on a ginormous statue of Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain, and Mexico was really trying to get all their Aztec stuff in order in the academic world. So the federal government asked San Miguel Coatlinchan if they could offer them a school and a hospital and stuff in exchange for their giant Tlaloc, seeing as they were currently letting all sorts of animals sit on it, and so they said yeah, because they really needed a school and a hospital and stuff, but everybody was really sad/worried/angry to see it go because it had just been lying there for as long as anybody could remember. So 48 years ago today mexigovernment moved Tlaloc.
it was pretty tricky to get him onto the TWO HUGE TRAILERS it took to haul him away.
everybody showed up to see this big piece of rock go, some were protesting. People were super superstitious because you can’t just move a big god rock without getting cursed.
people followed it all the way to mexico city (like 50 km). Apparently when they were moving it, it just started pouring and it didn’t stop raining in San Miguel Coatlinchan for a week, even though it wasn’t the rainy season. Totes cursed.
Karen O is amazing.
Dear China, don’t ban Dr. Who.
