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Ruskin’s drawing of Giacomo Boni, The Palazzo Dario, Venice
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[gallery] ancientart:
The Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon, ca. 150 AD. This stunning Roman temple, still very well preserved, is actually larger than the Parthenon of Athens.Photos courtesy of Varun Shiv Kapur.
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[gallery] Kazimir Malevich, Composition with the Mona Lisa (1914)
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Via John Overholt, the permissible colors for decorating the interiors of Victorian neo-Gothic churches. It is necessary to avoid those garish colors that lead to “the utter destruction of repose.”
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[gallery] blech:
Landmark 1979 California Water Atlas Debuts Online, from the David Rumsey Historical Map collection in 2010.Originally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary book. The copyright holder, the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, agreed to allow free public access online.
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My ideal burger is bun, cheese, burger. Sometimes bacon. Ketchup on the side, so I can control it. Pickles—yes! Obviously. And the cheese thing has to be very clear: American cheese only. American cheese was invented for the hamburger. People talk about it being processed and artificial and not real cheese—you know what makes it real? When you put it on a hamburger.
My Burger Manifesto | Lucky Peach. Via Austin Kleon on Twitter.
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[gallery] architectural-review:
The Dragline Silk Project. The project will aim to push the boundaries of biomimetics, and how these ideas can be applied to form a low-carbon, ecology-based industrial template.
