Posts Tagged ‘Marcel Ravidat’
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”*…
In Lewis Carroll’s Nursery Alice (an abridged edition he created for very young children), Alice snaps at the Queen, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
Well, Elie Bursztein does. Currently the AI cybersecurity technical and research lead at Google and Deepmind, he has had a storied career in tech. He also has a long and loving relationship with cards. In 2023, he established the Etteilla Foundation to house and build on his collection of antique decks (and related books and historical artifacts) and to “democratize access to this unique art form, its history, and its secret role in occult practices.”
Standard decks, transformations decks (where the artists incorporates the card’s pips into their art), classic tarot, divination tarot, and oracle decks– they’re all on display at…
“Discover amazing playing cards from ancient times,” courtesy of @ebursztein.bsky.social.
* Steven Wright
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As we come up aces, we might recall that it was on this date in 1940 that an ancestor of the art featured above was discovered: a teenager named Marcel Ravidat found the entrance to Lascaux Caves in southwest France when his dog investigated a hole left by an uprooted tree. Ravidat collected three friends, then followed his dog down what turned out to be the narrow entrance into a cavern, where they came upon (part of) the now-storied collection of wall markings— 15,000- to 17,000-year-old paintings, consisting mostly of animal representations– that are among the world’s finest examples of art from the Upper Paleolithic period.
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated”*…
Late-19th-century earrings incorporating real hummingbird heads
Home to drawings, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and thousands of other design objects, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is taking increased advantage of the internet’s digital real estate. The museum recently completed a massive digitization project that places almost its entire collection online; nearly 200,000 objects are now accessible and searchable, allowing online visitors to see just how rich its holdings are. Many of these works currently reside in the institution’s storage facility, so the project is a means of placing them in the public eye on a platform that also offers background information on each one…
Whitehead & Hoag Company, “Cawston Ostrich Farm, South Pasadena, California” (c. 1900)
More at “From Tiny Stairs to Taxidermy Earrings, 200,000 Objects from Cooper Hewitt Go Online“; dive into the collection here.
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As we shake out the duster, we might recall that it was on this date in 1940 that a teenager named Marcel Ravidat discovered the entrance to Lascaux Caves in southwest France. Following a dog down the narrow entrance and into the cavern, Ravidat and three friends came upon (part of) the now-storied collection of wall markings– 15,000- to 17,000-year-old paintings, consisting mostly of animal representations– that are among the world’s finest examples of art from the Upper Paleolithic period.
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