Giant ant colonies
Anthills can be fairly unassuming on the surface. When excavated, not so much.
The Japanese Box
In 1968, a magazine with the programmatic title Provoke was published in Tokyo by the photographer and writer Takuma Nakahira, the art critic Koji Taki and other members. Investigating the relation between photography and text, the magazine was an artistic and philosophical manifesto, responding to the upheavals of the late sixties. Originally published in very small editions (Provoke magazine had a print run of 1,000 copies), the publications reprinted in The Japanese Box are extremely rare today and almost impossible to find, even in Japan.
Z machine
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. Operated by Sandia National Laboratories, it gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons.
No Wave
No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 is a book that chronicles a short-lived moment in New York's music history.
Bam
Bam is a city in Iran. According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its existence to a magic worm. It was destroyed in an earthquake in 2003, but is being restored.
Vank Cathedral
Vank Cathedral is a cathedral in Iran. The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden.
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Duchess Anna Amalia Library possesses a total of one million units. Since its profile is dominated by the educational concept of the era around 1800 and its collections from the time between 1750 and 1850 are particularly extensive, the epoch from Enlightenment to Late Romanticism is the major focus of the library’s work.
Deja-vu magazine
The highly influential quarterly photo-journal Déjà-vu began publishing in 1990 with Iizawa Kohtaro as editor-in-chief. In terms of production value - gorgeous printing, heavy paper stock - each issue is really more of a book than a magazine.
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his novels were made into feature films: Cotton Comes to Harlem directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 and A Rage in Harlem starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991.
Alexandre Étienne Choron
Alexandre Étienne Choron was a French chef. Choron is also remembered for his dishes served during the Siege of Paris by the Prussians in which began on September 19, 1870. During the siege, Parisians were reduced to eating cats, dogs, and rats. The bourgeois were not content to eat on such low animals, and demand at the de luxe restaurants remained high. As food reserves dwindled, these restaurants, including Voisin, improvised. Choron eyed the animals kept at the local zoo, and served exotic animal dishes at Voisin. For the midnight Christmas meal of 1870, Choron proposed a menu principally composed of the best parts of the animals kept in the Jardin d'acclimatation (one of Paris' zoos) – stuffed head of donkey, elephant consommé, roasted camel, kangaroo stew, bear shanks roasted in pepper sauce, wolf in deer sauce, cat with rat, and antelope in truffle sauce – has become legendary. The menu's wines were Mouton-Rothschild 1846, Romanée-Conti 1858 and Château Palmer 1864.