4 posts tagged “classic”
Don't just look at the pretty picture. Get a compass, straightedge, pencil and graph paper. Start creating yourself. Begin with Albrecht Durer's pentagram and hexagram http://www.geomancygroup.org/pentagram.html.
Pentagrams and hexagrams aren't evil. They are encoded in the universe. They manifest in many places such as flowers (p & h), the 8-year long pentagram-forming orbit of Venus around the Sun as seen from Earth, honeycombs (h), any set of seven identically-sized round objects (h), and Saturn's north pole (h). Now stretch your arms out, stand with feet apart and head up high (p).
Oh baby, I'm a star (from 12:54) http://www.spike.com/video/prince-revolution/2792252.
Martin Heigen writes:
The perfect Ratio of 1:1.618 that occurs everywhere in Nature. In this example I used the Corona (Latin for Crown) of a Stapelia schinzii var. schinzii flower (from Namibia, Africa), to illustrate Nature's divine Ratio. The Inner and Outer Corona, and Corolla Lobes (Petals) all conform to this exact Ratio.
The Golden Ratio (or Golden Mean) can be found in everything from human anatomy, to a nautilus shell, butterflies, insects, plants and flowers.
Architects used this formula (π / Phi) from the Parthenon to the Pyramids, and Renaissance Artists like Leonardo da Vinci used it for the Composition of the Mona Lisa.
Best viewed LARGE.
Read more about The Golden Ratio" at Wikipedia.
Martin
Okinawa Soba writes:
From a Sample Set of Classic Meiji and Taisho-era Japan Stereoview and Lantern-Slide images by Japanese Photographer T. ENAMI (1859-1929). See www.t-enami.org
Here is a variant stereoview proof print taken during the session from whence the above image came : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2504132479/in/set-7215...
Okinawa Soba writes:
Ca.1898 Hand-tinted glass lantern-slide by T. Enami, Japan's Meiji-era Master of the small format image. www.t-enami.org
Okinawa Soba writes: "1903. Asama-san. Volcano suddenly erupts. Coolies flee in terror. Photographer Herbert G. Ponting catches up with one, and beats the crap out of him for running away. One coolie comes back. Ponting grabs two quick shots with a hand-held stereo camera -- this is one of them. The photographer you see holding a camera is his friend, along with the coolie who came back. Then, they got the hell out of there as rocks and boulders were dropping all around them. The miraculously escaped with their lives. True story."
