rushthatspeaks has treasure overload

[rydra_wong]

There is a room in the Argenti devoted entirely to gadgets made out of deformed pearls. No, really. The artisan would take a deformed pearl and say, clearly God intended this to be the hump of a camel, although in fact God intended no such thing and probably the opposite, and then the artisan would graft a camel's neck and head and legs and tail onto the thing in extremely precious materials and say, oh, look, I have cunningly made it obvious what this particular deformed pearl really looks like. And then one of the Medici daughters would buy it, so that we centuries later could stare at it and say, that is the worst miniature of a camel I have ever, ever seen. There are deformed-pearl babies' cradles. Ships in sail. Insects. Harlequins with pearl legs. Mermaids with pearl tails. The mind begins to bleed.

Context is in Florence.

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[silmaril]

This. Is. Awesome.

*cue "I Love The Whole World."*

[kelachrome]

This might be today's favorite thing. Yesterday's being Frances Glessner Lee, and the day before that belonging to this girl, and the day before that it was finding a chemistry spell-checker for MS word, and the day before that it was the founder of Dance Your PHD on TED (with dancing!), which leads me to my favorite thing in the past seven days: THIS.

Because everyone needs secret message encryption through by fluorescing bacteria in their lives. (Not that it's entirely relevant, but I just finished finals, so I am HAPPY and wish to SHARE.)

[heavenlyevil]

"The mind begins to bleed."

My brain was checking out just reading the description. Funny as it was, it does a really good job of describing that room and picturing it certainly broke my brain.

[illariy]

Oooh, now I want some. They sound adorable! XD