Looking forward to my eyes stinging with salt from the ocean.
Flowerpetal Balloon Flock
My grandmother and her twin brother pt. 2
IDEA FOR INVENTION #58
My grandmother & her twin brother
Linnaeus loved flowers and when he was a baby his father decorated his crib with flowers and whenever he cried, his father would let him hold a flower and he would calm down and he would stop crying. Later in life, before he became a knight of the Order of the Polar Star, he designed this flower clock made of various aequinoctales, which are types of flowers that open & close at specific times no matter what the weather is like or the temperature or the season. Linnaeus was the first Swedish civilian to be allowed into the Order of the Polar Star. His younger brother, Samuel, wrote a manual on beekeeping. His younger brother, Samuel, became a world-renown expert on bees. But the king of Sweden didn’t care and he never became a knight of the Order of the Polar Star like his brother, who created the flower clock shown above.
Charles Crawford Gorst imitating birdcalls, 1915
1. Harlick Skating Boots Historic Ice Skater Photograph Gallery (Volumes 1 through 4 and Jo Humber’s Collection / Also everything else)
2. Historic Pear Watercolor Collections
3. The wonderous, strange world of dollhouse miniatures
Free screening of Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game at the Harvard Film Archive tonight @ 7pm
