Museum of Mysteries

The Great Mermaid Hoax

It’s a job well done when a hoax fools a large quantity of people. We personally know a few people who were duped by this infamous Animal Planet mockumentary, perhaps purely because they wanted to believe so very much in the existence of mermaids. It’s hard to blame them – wouldn’t it be beyond spectacular if we shared the world with such creatures? Shall we give up hope just because the proof isn’t out there?

(Please excuse the quality of this video. It’s not the best, but it’s watchable.)

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Sketches of The Cosmos

This is a beautiful bit from the Long Now Foundation blog about celestial harmonics and a software developer, Howard Arrington, who has used his own software to “visualize the relationship between pairs of planets, producing a series of intriguing geometric mosaics.” The best thing about it is that you can use the software to create you own images too. Here.

Harmonic Spheres and the Music of the Cosmos

“In the 6th century BC, Pythagoras developed the science of harmonics. Legend has it that he was inspired by the sounds emanating from a blacksmith’s shop; producing experimental music with hammers and anvils, Pythagoras realized that the relationship between different musical notes can be expressed in the form of simple mathematical ratios.

Pythagoras saw in this a fundamental theory of the universe, and redefined the world – from the motion of celestial bodies to the emotional fluctuations in a human body – as iterations of a kind of cosmic music. More than a millennium later, Johannes Kepler interpreted this musica universalis as proof of Divine splendor, and devoted his career to a description of the geometric and harmonic order of our solar system….”

For the rest visit the Blog of the Long Now.

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The Smallest Museum In The World…

Art that is small in size but large in thought…

The Micro Museum: The self-proclaimed world’s smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain (Atlas Obscura)

CONTRIBUTORS: Dustin Stonecipher, EricGrundhauser

“The Mµseum” (or “Micro Muscuem”) is too small to have a real address. In fact, at only eight inches deep and sixteen inches wide, this New England art installation is dwarfed by the “We Make Our Own Bread” sign glaring from the Subway sandwich shop next door.

The self-proclaimed “smallest museum in the world” is the culmination of three years of work for head curator Judith Klausner. “I’ve always been attracted to small,” Klausner told Boston’s local NPR radio station. “With a small piece of work, your attention is pretty inherently intimate because you’re getting into its space and it’s getting into your space.” Klausner, a local Somerville artist, has always had a passion for the small and the overlooked. From her website: “I hope to change the way people see the small and often disregarded ephemera of life.” Klausner inserted the Greek letter “µ,” a symbol which represents the scientific figure “micro,” into the museum’s name as a visual pun…”

For more, click here.

More micro art here.

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