Machinery Scans a showcase for some of the most detailed advertisement engravings produced. During the later part of the 19th century most machinery and equipment makers spent large sums of money to have their tool or piece of machinery converted into an engraving for advertising. The scans are of engravings produced from the 1850s-1890s.
posted by Mitheral
on Feb 28, 2012 -
27 comments
On July 17th, NASA's
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite
completed its first survey of the entire sky viewable from Earth. After just seven months in orbit, WISE -- a precursor to the planned
James Webb Space Telescope -- has returned more than a million images that provide a close look at
celestial objects ranging from
distant galaxies to
asteroids. The first release of WISE data, covering about 80 percent of the sky,
will be delivered to the astronomical community in May of next year, but in the meantime we can see some of the images and animations that NASA has released to date: Galleries
(containing just a small selection of images):
1,
2,
3,
4. Videos and Animations:
1,
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posted by zarq
on Jul 24, 2010 -
11 comments
VADS is a resource for visual art, a huge range of things from students' work to collections of historical art and design.
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posted by paduasoy
on Jan 4, 2008 -
6 comments
Collage is an online image database from the collections of the City of London Libraries and the Guildhall Art Gallery. Images cover the last five centuries. You can search by key word or browse by theme, artist/engraver, person or place.
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posted by paduasoy
on Dec 22, 2007 -
7 comments
There are many picture blogs, but there is only one
SidewaysPony.
As one regular user so aptly
put it, this ingeneously simple site is "the most repulsively, exquisitely, disastrously, wonderfully addictive little corner of the internet." [poss. nsfw]
posted by castironskillet
on Jun 6, 2007 -
24 comments
Pixoh is a new online simple image editor in the vein of
PXN8. Pixoh, however, allows quick image import and export from
Flickr or upload any other webpage via
bookmarklet. At the moment, only the most basic of editing tools are available, but the creators - in the spirit of Web2.0 openness - promise new
features based on
user votes.
Effect for MeFi? Oversized inline images won't know what hit 'em.
posted by youarenothere
on Mar 7, 2006 -
7 comments
