Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) in fancy dress. 1878.
This is the best outfit that has ever existed and will ever exist. There will never be a superior combination of garments.
By Catherine Nelson, I find myself mesmerised by these astounding, meticulous compositions from thousands of tiny details, congregated to form these individual little magical worlds. Each one a contained planet with it’s own individual environment and colour range.
Gorgeous!
Billions and Billions
Click this link and you’ll be taken to a 24,000 x 14,000 pixel zoomable image of a central region of the Milky Way galaxy. I’m guessing it probably won’t work if you’re reading this on your phone. It was put together by Stéphane Guisard at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Within this image, should you zoom down (as I have done in the photos above), you will find millions of stars. Millions. Not to mention clouds of nebular gas, dark and light. And all of this from an area of the sky about the same size as two outstretched hands. That leaves a lot of stars unseen, here a mere fraction of the infinite gleam.
When you’re done examining this particular region of the Milky Way, check out ESO’s Gigagalaxy Zoom for more interstellar mind travel. While you’re out journeying on your cosmic imagination quest, squinting against the starshine of these hundreds of billions of points of light that make up our galactic neighborhood, remember not to feel small. Feel tall, because we are the ones who built the tools to capture them all.
(via Bad Astronomy)
Epigenetics by Matt Forsythe, knitting the threads of life.
Prints available for sale at his shop!
Science & Knitting. Two of my fav things.
Secret door in wardrobe leads to hidden Narnia themed playroom
One day, my future office will have an entrance like this.
So awesome.
NaNoWriMo Calendar-2012 by *DastardlyRomantic
I made a calendar. Hopefully it’s helpful for you.
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DIY Silver Skull Door Knocker from momnivore’s dilemma here. This is a skull from the Dollar Store.
Gonna make this!
