Via Nag on the Lake—and reminiscent of the magical realism of the painter Rob Gonsalves though a bit over-articulated by AI—we enjoyed this cut-away image of the foundations of Venice (see previously), the marshy shallows of the lagoon since the fifth century when Romans fled successive waves of Hun and Visigoth forages into nearby cities to an area more easily defendable than the open countryside and learned to build on this sandy and muddy refuge by driving piles of trunks of alder trees into the ground until coming to rest on the more substantial level of compressed clay below the silt. Structural foundations themselves rested on plates of limestone placed on top of the closely spaced piles, the logs eventually petrifying in the brackish waters to a consistency that matches any modern construction material. More from Vintage Everyday at the link above.
synchronoptica
one year ago: a thousand year old gaming collection (with synchronoptica), Taco Bell wall art plus artist Carlo Bossoli
seven years ago: US tariffs on steel and aluminium plus NSA motivational posters
eight years ago: the oligarchs of Antiquity, Melbourne’s Portrait apartment, An Inconvenient Truth revisited, a Tolkien tale of forbidden romance, an AI writes descriptions of works of art plus the invention of Roquefort cheese
nine years ago: what3words, knowing one’s own mind, modern day ukiyo-e, vampiric traits plus Mid-Century Maori
ten years ago: holy avatars plus the philosophy of happiness and thriving