King Richard II carrying the holy synthesizer to Rome.
Tilman Riemenschneider, Nürnberg 1502 pic.twitter.com/bdP3ZVk1ZB— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 7, 2023
King Richard II carrying the holy synthesizer to Rome. Tilman Riemenschneider, Nürnberg 1502
Our Lord Jesus Christ blessing the Sacred Synthesizer of Constantinople Byzantine Mosaic, ~1000 AD
Our Lord Jesus Christ blessing the Sacred Synthesizer of Constantinople
Byzantine Mosaic, ~1000 AD pic.twitter.com/eS0hVJSldY— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 7, 2023
Demütigung
Something better. I tried hard to get from AI a promptography of an iranian woman tearing off the turban of a Mullah, or Mullahs lying on the floor in front of an iranian woman without headscarf. I didn’t get useful results. (AI’s p.c. politics will make it more and more useless)
But then an Iranian woman gave me the idea that dogs in Iran count, like swines, as filthy and lower animals. Pictures of old Iranian men under attack of dogs would be a clear symbol for the purpose of the Iranian revolt. Here it is, perhaps useful.
Something better. I tried hard to get from AI a promptography of an iranian woman tearing off the turban of a Mullah, or Mullahs lying on the floor in front of an iranian woman without headscarf. I didn't get useful results. (AI's p.c. politics will make it more and more useless) pic.twitter.com/yth1hC5GG6
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 9, 2023
Hildegard von Bingens Einweihungsfeier des neugegründeten Klosters Rupertsberg.
Giotto di Bondone: Hildegard von Bingens Einweihungsfeier des neugegründeten Klosters Rupertsberg. Fresco im Dom von Florenz, 1334-1335 pic.twitter.com/0PMaJtLFhV
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 10, 2023
Frau Angelico: Hildegard von Bingens Einweihungsfeier des neugegründeten Klosters Rupertsberg. Museo de San Marco, Florenz, um 1450 pic.twitter.com/AgYaunlMiI
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 10, 2023
Katsushika Hokusai: Return of the Big Yamaha Synthesizer to Honshū (1832)
Katsushika Hokusai: Return of the Big Yamaha Synthesizer to Honshū (1832) pic.twitter.com/k1tb9WD94M
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 10, 2023
Tamara de Lempicka, „The Theremin player“ (1930)
Tamara de Lempicka, "The Theremin player" (1930) pic.twitter.com/bx9CwQIbVi
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 12, 2023
Frida Kahlo, self portrait with apes and synthesizer (1940)
Frida Kahlo, self portrait with apes and synthesizer (1940) pic.twitter.com/swtDGzwbJK
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 12, 2023
Die große Schlacht um den Synthesizer von Lachish
Die große Schlacht um den Synthesizer von Lachish, 701 v. Chr. / Assyrisches Relief, heute im British Museum London pic.twitter.com/UIJhrJEKUQ
— Kreidler (@_Kreidler) May 13, 2023
Photographic Firsts
Schöne Sammlung
A short thread of photographic firsts…
The first ever underwater photo, taken in 1899 by Louis Boutan: pic.twitter.com/NewyepV168
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
The first self-portrait (or selfie, perhaps…) seems to have been taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius. pic.twitter.com/u4Vs6rKyMN
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
And in 1840 John William Draper took the first – or, at least, oldest surviving – photograph of the moon. pic.twitter.com/JUdvndMZem
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
Five years later, in 1845, Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault managed to photograph the sun. pic.twitter.com/AfVgw4Gs2v
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
The oldest surviving aerial photograph, it seems, was taken by James Wallace Black in 1860. He called it "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It."
A French photographer called Nadar had already made aerial photos two years prior, but these have not survived. pic.twitter.com/W5VBxmmH1w
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
In 1847 Thomas Martin Easterly made a daguerreotype of lightning, but that original has been lost and only survives as a copy (left).
And so William Jennings' photo (right) taken on 2nd September 1882, is the oldest known photo of lightning. pic.twitter.com/lmSqQrOnU2
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
The first photo of the Earth from outer space was taken in 1946 by the V-2 No. 13 Rocket. Other, more famous photos of the Earth would come, but this is where it began. pic.twitter.com/WXJ1yeqd6K
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023
And the first ever digital image was created in 1957 by Russell Kirch. He led the development of a digital scanner and this, a photograph of his son, was the first one they scanned. pic.twitter.com/2857biUaHo
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 9, 2023