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Kyō Maruyama, Okaruyaki (Lightly baked confections); late 19th century Japan.

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Polynesian Stick Charts

The charts were made by men from thin strips of coconut frond midribs or pandanus root. They were then bound together with coconut sennit in geometric patterns depicting sea currents around the low lying atolls. Small money cowrie shells or coral pebbles indicated islands and curved sticks represent wave patterns.

They were not carried on a voyage and the adult navigator gauged the wave patterns represented in the Stick Charts entirely by his sense of touch. “He would crouch in the bow of his canoe and literally feel every motion of the vessel.” As with ripples in a pond they “concentrated on refraction of swells as they came in contact with undersea slopes of islands and the bending of swells around islands as they interacted with swells coming from opposite directions.”

A fascinating aspect of the charts is that they varied so much in form and interpretation that they were “readable” only by the specific navigators who constructed them. Evidently the knowledge contained in each was a closely guarded secret.

Wikipedia says: “The stick charts are a significant contribution to the history of cartography because they represent a system of mapping ocean swells, which was never before accomplished. They also use different materials than is common in other parts of the world. They are an indication that ancient maps may have looked very different, and encoded different features from the earth, than the maps we use today.”

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Eduardo Paolozzi. Genot to Unimate. Genot, Untitled (Walking Machine), Untitled (Parade Robot), Untitled (Unimate and Egg), Untitled (Robot Commander and Boy), Genot (Cancelled). 1970.

wetreesinart:

Francis Picabia (Fr. 1879-1953), L’Arbre rouge (Grimaldi après la pluie), vers 1912, huile sur toile, 92,5 x 73,4 cm, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne Georges-Pompidou

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medverf:

Robert Seidel

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Kristine Moran

Acts of Submission - A new painting series

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#Egypt Pound
The first banknote issued in 1899s

اول جنيه مصري ورقي تم اصداره عام ١٨٩٩ يسمى بجنيه الجملين، تم اصداره بمرسوم من الخديوي عباس حلمي وكانت قيمته ٧.٤٣ جراما من الذهب واستمر ذلك حتى عام ١٩١٤ م
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#مصر #زمان

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Ray Johnson (American, 1927-1995)

P.S. This part is for Mom alone (Dad, don’t read it). Jim Stephens kissed me.

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