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Space Junk. Looks like we're going to have to get ecological with the Earth's orbit, otherwise we can say goodbye to the dream of space travel. NASA says there are about 23,000 pieces of debris bigger than a softball orbiting Earth at speeds of up to 17,500mph.
Image: ROCA
"Silence" by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825). Fuseli was a Swiss painter who was inspired by Milton, Shakespeare and by the supernatural. He influenced the art of William Blake. Out of 1000 artworks, he never painted a single landscape. "Damn Nature! she always puts me out" he said.
“The Disasters of War” is a series of 82 etchings by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Goya worked on the plates during the actual Peninsular War (1807 -1814), during which there were 215,000–375,000 deaths.
The images weren't published until 1863, 35 years after Goya’s death.
@ClockworkCosmos aha! I found it. (The God Man - 5 meters by 5 meters, Groeninge Museum, Bruges). Also this museum-quality reproduction has much more muted colours
Another fantastical retro-futurist world created by Simon Stålenhag.
THE LABYRINTH (2020),
Why are Victorian Christmas cards so weird? Many were old sayings, riddles and puns depicted literally but we've since forgotten what these expressions were.
So now they seem like: "Don't bake children in pies" &
"Beware of being mugged by large insects if you are a frog."
"Madonna" (1894) by Edvard Munch. "Madonna has often been interpreted as representing the moment of conception." "At the same time, the woman’s marked cheekbones along with deep set eyes evoke associations of a cranium" stressing the "the union between love and death."
@chilljat Some of the later prints by Edvard Munch - have redder hair that looks a tad like blood, and the 'Vampire' name stuck.
@TaLL04152632 With #COP26 coming up - there's an elephant in the room - the 2009 WTO-UNEP report that shows that globalisation, global trade & shipping causes an increase in CO2 emissions.