Scotland: The Castle of Park in Glenluce, by Juergen Teller for Vogue Italia November, 1997
(Source: diamondsoflucy, via 31-02-1992)
Broken butterflies repaired with new wings and bodies by Anne Ten Donkelaar
(via tryphena)
Deyrolle pour Opening Ceremony Spring Lookbook shot by Bastien Lattanzio in Deyrolle, Paris
Deyrolle pour Opening Ceremony Spring Lookbook shot by Bastien Lattanzio in Deyrolle, Paris
Deyrolle pour Opening Ceremony Spring Lookbook shot by Bastien Lattanzio in Deyrolle, Paris
Deyrolle pour Opening Ceremony Spring Lookbook shot by Bastien Lattanzio in Deyrolle, Paris
Fur bearing trout ( The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America, particularly Canada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Great Lakes. The basic claim is that the waters of lakes and rivers in the area are so cold that a species of trout has evolved which grows a thick coat of fur to maintain its body heat. Another theory says that it is due to four jugs of hair tonic being spilled into the Arkansas River)
Guinevere van Seenus by Tim Walker in ‘Dreaming of Another World’ for Vogue Italia March 2011 styled by Jacob K
Reports of entombed animals found inside stones (reputedly sometimes still alive) date back to the 15th century and have occurred as recently as the 1980s. For example, in a letter to Julian Huxley, an Eric G. Mackley claimed to have freed twenty three frogs from concrete in Devonshire and in 1876 sixty-three small toads were reportedly found in the middle of a five meter wide tree trunk in South Africa.
Scientists have paid little serious attention to the phenomenon since the nineteenth century and most specimens were destroyed after the Victorian era, the world’s only remaining entombed toad resides at the Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton, was found by two workmen in Lewes in 1898 and donated by Charles Dawson in 1901. It consists of an oval, hollow flint nodule millions of years old containing a mummified toad. The toad apparently was quite famous in it’s hey-day, featured on cigarette cards and in paranormal magazines`and it still tours the globe (it just got back from Vienna and I caught it before it was jetting off to Japan!). Dawson’s explanation is that the toad crawled through a small hole in the rock when it was very small, managed to find enough food to grow but then became too large to escape it’s little prison and eventually died of either old age or starvation. He speculated that if the workmen had split the stone before the animal had died, it would have joined the ranks of the living toads-in-the-hole and suggested that this theory could be provide a tentative answer to the hundreds of findings.
However, Dawson cannot be viewed as an entirely reliable source being blamed now for various ‘imaginative frauds’, most infamously for his involvement in the Piltdown scandal, where a faked anthropoid skull was claimed to be Darwin’s ‘missing link’ between human and ape. Sadly, taking this into consideration along with the fact that the toad has visibly shrunk since it’s original discovery (indicating it was not very old to begin with) it is likely that it could be another faked natural spectacle.
Anyway I saw it and it was pretty interesting and this post reveals rather embarrassingly the depths of my geekyness. Possibly quite unhealthy that at nineteen I spend saturday nights researching fossilised amphibians..
road trip to every natural history museum ever please
(via rorycole)
