ABOVE: "Flying Machine," Leonardo da Vinci, 1490
ABOVE: "Ornithopter," by Victor Tatin, 1875
ABOVE: Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes, Uterus
ABOVE: Sketch of the Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright
ABOVE: Pink conch shell
ABOVE: The Guggenheim, inside (links to museum's site, timeline of the building's construction)
ABOVE: Nautilus shell's spiral of chambers, called camerae, that this cephalopod builds for itself as it grows. Photo by Todd Gipstein
ABOVE: "Ornithopter," Leonardo
Starship Enterprise (remastered episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
ABOVE: Edward Lear, Self-Portrait as a Bird; GB commemorative stamps, 1988, on the centenary of Lear's death
(You can see I saved the best for last.)
Flying ovaries = Cthulhu.
ReplyDeleteNeed I say, heh.
It´s a perfect sequence of images, graphics and concepts come about with a perfect (surreal?) joyful, delightful flying logic.
ReplyDeleteIf we are, indeed, made of stardust, people of the cosmos, what better spaceship than the uterus for our journey through space and time, to the moment of birth - the frontier where each new fetal 'man' has not gone before?
ReplyDeleteI thought of the _Nautilus_ exploring that other dark and hostile frontier, the deep seas. Its design has changed so often as each generation re-illustrates the classics.
ReplyDeleteARTS: Truly horrific! : )
ReplyDeleteALEPH: "Flying Logic"--that would be a great name for a blog! Thanks for commenting---you're right, this is a joyous project.
CROW: Nice connections. I love knowing that we are made of stardust.
KMH: I looked for an image of Nemo's Nautilus that fit in, but they were all too pointy. There were some terrific illustrations of underwater life, though--like jellyfish and giant squidy things---maybe I should post those.
A cephalopod never goes amiss, eh?
the blogger PZ Myers whose blog Pharyngula takes down creationist politics, also posts a Friday cephalopod if you want some fun images of underwater creatures.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look that up, momo.
ReplyDeleteNever too many cephalopods!
I keep coming back to the goofy logic of this post.
ReplyDeleteMe too!
ReplyDeleteSome may feel squeamish about eating it, but rabbit has a fan base that grows as cooks discover how easy they are to raise — and how good the meat tastes.
ReplyDelete