Aerial Photography | aerial Archaeology Part II

The goal is to lay out the world in a more computationally friendly manner.

Still obsessed with Klaus Leidorf's (the German 'Aerial Archaeologist') flickr.

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Thom Browne S/S 11

RGB - Le metamorfosi

An installation for Milan Design Week 2010 - by the Italian designers known as Carnovsky.

Intending to 'explore both the real and the fantastic, the true and the verisimilar in the way medieval bestiaries did' The imagery in the wallpaper are engravings from 'natural history’s great European texts from between the XVI Century and the XVIII Century. Including Aldrovandi, Ruysch, Linneus and Bonnaterre.'

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Joe Fletcher

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Their quilted armour was known as Yan Lifida

Hausa armed horsemen in quilted armour during 10th anniversary of independence celebration, Niamey, Niger, [colour slide by Eliot Elisofon, 1971].

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"Heavy garments of quilted cotton cloth stuffed with capok were widely used as armour for horse and man in central and eastern Sudanic Africa. In the Sokoto caliphate of northern Nigeria, heavily armed horsemen in quilted armour were known as Yan Lifida. They often acted as the bodyguards of an Emir on the field. The various components which formed the armour are: the bantan lifidi covered the loins and abdomen; the safa the upper torso; the kumakumi was worn as a corselet; Such quilted armour was used either alone or in combination with chain mail (sulke). The war-horses themselves were sometimes outfitted with breastplates (dan gaba) as well. The helmet (kwalkwali) was a padded headpiece made of bound rags, sometimes covered by a tin or brass receptacle or chain mail, and decorated with the feathers of an ostrich or other brightly colored bird."

[Ch. Spring, 1993: African Arms and Armour. British Museum press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.

Animals and War

Members of the 2/48th Battalion, 9th Australian Division, with a pet dog, after evacuation from Tobruk, Egypt on the ship Kingston. 1941

Pte. D.W. Jones of Carlton N.S.W. and "C" company the 2/33 battalion. One of the men responsible for running the donkey team supply column to the scattered units in Khiam, 1941

'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, is on active service with a famous RAAF Spitfire squadron in Morotai. He belongs to Flying Officer (FO) Robert Addison of Elwood, Vic, who brought him from Bathurst Island. 'Ferdie' spent a wild youth, but now is a reformed character. When he reached larrikin stage, he acquired a taste for beer and could drink a long tablespoon with any squirrel, but at aerobatics, his judgment went to pieces after twenty minutes intermittent drinking, he even fell into a full glass of beer. After that not a drop of liquor passed his lips. As one of the squadron's mascots, the teetotal possum met with a lot of competition. Among his rivals were fifteen dogs, a cat, another possum and a rooster.

Staff Sergeant Major Morgan and dog, and Private Francis Edmund Bilton, 5th Battalion. Note the cat curled up asleep in the corner. Circa 1915

Aboard HMAS Sydney are two ships mascots who don't agree: Able Seaman J. T. Walker with his pup "Shrapnel" and Able Seaman Gamble with his cat "Salvo", 1940.

The feline mascot of the light cruiser HMAS Encounter, peering from the muzzle of a 6 inch gun. WWI

Sergeant Eric Campbell Lawther, of Hurlstone Park, NSW, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment), says goodbye to veteran mine dog, Dean, in Korea, 1956.

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The Paris Vogue from Feb 2010 involved a trip to Morocco

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These selected scans really are a mere slither of the complete (enormous) editorial (which can be found in it's entirety here at 'fashion gone rogue')

Title: Vogue-À-Porter

Vogue Paris February 2010

photographers: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Daria Werbowy, Dree Hemingway, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lara Stone, Raquel Zimmermann, Anna de Rijk, Martin Cohn, Isabeli Fontana, Naomi Campbell, Tanga Moreau, Bridget Hall, Talisa Soto