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The Intruder (1962)

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– Blade Runner concept art by Syd Mead

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Joseph Vargo

Gargoyles

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Nuno Zuki

FINIS

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The remains of a traditional sod house in Tikiġaq (Point Hope, Alaska), constructed with bowhead whalebone frames and wooden archways. It was occupied until 1975 by Nanny Ooyahtona. Abandoned homes like this have been reported to be used as dens by polar bears.

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Eugène Bidau (French, 1839-1899)

Nature morte avec vase et fleurs

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Claudette Colbert & Miriam Hopkins in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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Catacombs at the Santiago Apostol Cathedral. location: Lampa, Peru

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Vibrant tourmaline embedded in clear quartz crystals. – Himalaya Mine, California Collection: @shizu_0102 Photo by: Furuta mineralcollector

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Mills 5 Cent Poinsettia Slot Machine. Chicago: Mills Novelty Co., [ca. 1920s]. Three-reel slot machine with wooden frame, painted cast metal front.

Potter and Potter

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歩いても 歩いても (Still Walking)

— 2008, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.

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Berlin, City Smell Research. Sissel Tolaas (Norwegian, born 1962) 2004.

Glass and smell simulation

Each bottle: 5 7/8 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/8" (15 x 18 x 6 cm)

“Smell immediately locates you in a space,” says artist, designer, chemist, and odor theorist Sissel Tolaas. “It gives you new tools to perceive your surroundings.” Throughout her career Tolaas has worked provocatively with smell, applying headspace technology—used in the perfume industry to capture and synthesize natural scents—to render essences ranging from the objectionable (sweat, rotten fish, dog feces) to the everyday (fresh laundry, kebabs, shoe shop) and put them into an archive of more than seven thousand scents. From this archive she has created fragrances that do not adhere to the usual definitions of what smells good or desirable; instead, her aim is to stimulate emotional responses, evoke memories, and recreate places in all their chaos and specificity. While conducting her City Smell Research, which was presented at the Berlin Biennale in 2004, Tolaasworked in various Berlin districts to distill an essential scent for each one, creating an olfactory map of the city. The scents are contained in bottles that physically recall the city map and compass points. This work is not simply the charting of a landscape of smell; it also explores the potential of smell as information that enhances and subverts the physical and symbolic boundaries of the urban ecosystem.

found via Talk to Me curated by Paola Antonelli

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Propaganda i’m always falling for: Perfume bottles that have a lot going on

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so it’s a wednesday night in july and you’re at home and you’ve showered and you’ve masturbated and you’ve gnawed at the inside of your mouth and you’ve eaten and washed the dishes and fixed a corner of the fitted sheet on your bed and texted your grandmother and thought positive thoughts and still the feeling comes. what then