Bird pins (brooches) made out of scrap materials by Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II.
From The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005).
Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity”.
Shinji Ihara aka いはらしんじ aka Nobuyuki Ihara aka 井原信次 (Japanese, b. 1987, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan) - Breathless, 2015 Drawings: Pencil on Echizen Washi (Japanese Paper)
Horgabrud by Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851–1914)
“Cup and Cover in the form of a Partridge” Nuremberg, 1598-1602 CE [876x1500]
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Can’t help myself but seeing Aragorn as a drunken hobo entering the room, expecting an event with a lot of beer…
Macro Butterflies
Photographer Chris Perani uses macro photography to capture the microscopic details found on butterflies’ wings, such as multi-colored hairs and iridescent scales. To photograph with such precision, the photographer uses a 10x microscope objective attached to a 200mm lens, which presents an almost non-existent depth of field.
Awesome.