Day: February 13, 2006

Deborah Eisenberg offers commanding proof that in the right hands, the short story can be a legitimate art form, not just a test run for writers warming up to write a novel.

• High-speed photography [via]
• Aerial photography:
  

  It’s often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs are real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, absent the imperfections of reality. [via]

• More of the same [via]
• Stunning Photographs of China [via]
• Peanuts characters in real-world comic [via]
• Leping Zha Photography — “Fine Art Landscapes of the Grand Natural World, East and West” [via]
• Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine [via]
• Dream Anatomy:
  

  Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. [via]

• The Obakemono Project:
  

  To most Western eyes, traditional Japan is a serene veneer of stoic samurai, porcelain-skinned geisha, Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms. It seems like the last place you’d look for things bizarre, grotesque, and morbid. And yet the Japanese archipelago is home to as rich a tradition of goblins, ghouls, and monsters as you’ll find anywhere on Earth. A motley collection of animated objects, transformed animals, ogres, demons, and human freaks, these creatures are collectively known as youkai (yoh-kye), or bakemono (bah-keh-mo-no). They feature in countless folktales, prints, and paintings, often rendered with as much humor as horror, a troupe of beasts as charming as they are terrifying. [via]

• The Infinite Cat Project [via]
• For Valentine’s Day: You Complete Me [via]
• “I just love drawing Stephen King. So deliciously freaky and normal at the same time.” – Patricia Storms
• Photos of the First Few Microseconds of an Atomic Blast [via]