hallucigenesis: prostheticknowledge: Rare 400-year-old Map Shows China as the Centre of the World One of the world’s rarest and oldest maps went on display at the Library of Congress in Washington. It was made in 1602 by Italian priest Matteo Ricci, who visited China in the 1500s and taught the Chinese about the existence of “the Americas.” The emperor asked him to make a map. The result is an enormous map, on five-foot-tall panels of rice paper, with China at the center. It’s the first map in Chinese to show the land we now call North and South America. Via AsianOffbeat
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vauxvintage: The Reel Foto: Kevin Bauman: 100 Abandonded Detroit Houses
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Solar
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gacougnol: Robert Rauschenberg Ape 1970 From The Stoned Moon Series Color Lithograph
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Hayward Gallery, London. April 2013

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Mitch Epstein

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geometrydaily: #427 Fibonacci’s left eye – A new minimal geometric composition each day
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Serge Gainsbourg
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flasd: Werner Bischof: Switzerland, Zürich, Mercury, 1941
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baboooshka: Gwen McCrae “Funky Sensation”, 1981
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travelingcolors: San Galgano Abbey | Italy (by Alessio Corsi)
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fininawasteofwaters: English furniture shopping is fun  |  antique Welsh chair + vintage school chairs
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Canvas  by  andbamnan