playing with your food...

playing with your food...:

...in this beautiful series of plated food vignettes photographed by Andrea Bricco and styled by Casa de Perrin... — Joy

{photos by Andrea Bricco, via Rue Magazine's preview anniversary issue}

The Art Of Clean Up

The Art Of Clean Up:

Photographs by Ursus Wehrli.  You know the third assistant had to get those letters in order for that alphabet soup.  Hit the jump to see what’s going on here!

Via Fubiz

Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book

Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book:

Illustrations by Andrew Kolb

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This capsule was curated by Stevyn Colgan

Neapolitan Cephalopods

Neapolitan Cephalopods:

I Cefalopodi!

"Adolf Naef (1883-1949) was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist, famous for his work on cephalopods and systematics.



[He] studied at the University of Zurich, under the guidance of Arnold Lang, a former Professor of Jena University and close friend of Ernst Haeckel*. Naef visited and worked in Anton Dorn’s Zoological Station in Naples, Italy in 1908, studying the squid Loligo vulgaris, the subject of his dissertation.



Naef returned to the Naples Zoological Station in the mid 1920s to study cephalopods, publishing a two-part monograph in the Station’s 'Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meers-Abschitte' ('Fauna e Flora del Golfo di Napoli') series, which formed the basis for his two short but significant monographs on systematic theory. In 1922 he became Professor at the University of Zagreb, and in 1927 was Professor of Zoology at the University of Cairo."

'I Cefalopodi' is hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution.



The overall series from Naples is dated 1896 (presumably when it began) and this mid-1920s monograph (Vol. 35) on cephalopods features about thirty lithographs, most in black & white. (The digital book consists of only illustration plates)



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