Collage based on the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, 2012.
(hooks)

Black Square, oil on canvas, Kazimir Malevich, 1915 . Signed 1913.
(The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

North-facing view of a "cut" through rock along the former Rutland & Burlington Railroad near Vermont. Phineas P. Gage (1823-1860) may have met with his accident here while setting an explosive charge that would launch a spear through his skull and permanently alter his emotional and decision-making faculties.
(Macmillan, Malcolm. An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. A Bradford Book, 2002)

Illustration of the Battle of the Horns of Hattin from an unidentified medieval manuscript. The battle took place on Saturday, July 4, 1187 and is generally referred to as a defining moment in the military, political and religious history of the Middle-East. (unknown)

Portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, tempera on panel, Piero della Francesca (between 1460-1470). Federico was a great humanist and commissioned the construction of the largest library after the Vatican. Due to the loss of his right eye in a tournament, he had his nasal bridge removed in order to free up his field of vision.
(Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Photograph of Isamu Noguchi's studio built in the village of Mure on the Japanese island of Shikoku. Noguchi adapted and refurbished a traditional japanese house in order to accompany the size of his sculptures and his "occidental" perception of space — he was born in Los Angeles, California in 1904 and lived for many years in the United States and Europe.
(hooks, 2010)

Dépot de Sel, Renate Buser, 2003. A permanent installation for "Art en plein air" in Môtiers.
(renatebuser.ch)

Captain Turner avoided the iceberg believed to have sunk the Titanic. Photographed on the 14th of December 1912 at the site of the sinking.
(blogs.archives.gov/prologue)

A shelterbelt to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion, somewhere in Germany.
(unknown)

Staff stand in a meeting room at Lehman Brothers offices in London on September 11th 2008. Four days later the company would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(Kevin Coombs, 2008)

A mobius bacon printed in 3D. A full color, delicious strip of bacon, twisted around itself, having only one side.
(available at shapeways.com)

The Cellini Salt Cellar, in Vienna called the Saliera, is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, completed in 1543 for Francis I of France. Besides functioning as a salt dispenser, the Saliera was created to celebrate the magnificence of its owner and creative genius of the artist.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Antonio Gaudi. Funicular Structural Model for the Guell Chapel, Model c. 1898.
(Allen, Stan, and Diana Agrest. Practice: Architecture, Technique+Representation. Routledge, 2000)

Annie Paxton placed on a Victoria amazonica leaf to demonstrate its structural properties. Joseph Paxton's design for the Crystal Palace would take its cue from the organic structure of this plant.
(Conan, Michel. Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002)

Covered windrows at the Jepson Prairie Organics facility in Vacaville, California.
(ethicurean.com)

Kurosawa, Akira. Seven Samurai. Drama, 1956.
(screenshot 04/18/2009)

Théâtre antique d'Orange, Cultural infrastructure for the Roman province of Orange. Established by the soldiers of the second legion, early in the 1st century AD.
(The Rome Department of the German Archeological Institute)

I-nuk-tju-it (man-like) stone monuments built to deceive the Caribou during a hunting drive. Sometimes these are made of sod. Photographed by Rudolph Martin Anderson, 03/21/1911, Dismas Lake, west of Narrows.
(Library and Archives Canada)

Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong contained up to 33,000 residents within the 0.026 km2 confines of a former Chinese military fort. The largely self-governed settlement held out to development pressure until its eventual demolition in March 1993 by government decree. Fragments of the Walled City, including its yamen building and remnants of its South Gate, have been preserved.
(unknown)

Del Campo square during the last day of practice for the Il Palio in Siena. The surrounding neighbourhoods of Siena have been sending rider and horse to compete in the twice annual event since 1665. The winner is determined by which horse (with or without rider) crosses the finish line first.
(ibtimes.com)

Detail from Giotto's Madonna and child, tempera on panel, probably 1320 - 1330, Italy.
(Italian Paintings XIII-XV illustrations, Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Washington D.C)

From the East of Eden series, photograph, Phillip-Lorca diCorcia, 2012.
(Gallery David Zwirner)

Freshly laid Autobahn between Frankfurt and Mannheim, 1935.
(unknown)

Detail from Abstraktes Bild 780-1, oil on canvas, Gerhard Richter, 1999.
(Godfrey, Mark, Nicholas Serota, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Gerhard Richter: Panorama Tate Pub., 2011)

A section of the Codex Ephraemi from the National Library in Paris, containing Matt. 20:16-23.
(Frowde, Henry. The S.S. Teacher's Edition: The Holy Bible. Publisher to the University of Oxford, 1896)

Juancho Yrausquin Airport, Saba, Netherlands Antilles. Runway length: 1,312 ft (400m) is known as the world's shortest commercial airport.
(L Pia, 1997)

Le Saut dans le vide (Leap Into The Void), Photomontage, Shunk Kender, 1960. After a performance by the French avant-garde artist Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses.
(Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual Art. Phaidon, 1998)

Audiard, Jacques. Un prophète. Drama, 2009.
(screenshot, 14/12/2012)

The three tiles in Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, woodblock print, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844.
(britishmuseum.org)

Ocean-Chart, by Lewis Carroll.
(Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits. Macmillan, 1876)

Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square, Bruce Nauman, 16 mm black and white sound film, 1967 - 1968.
(screenshot 07/01/2007)

Zoroastrian Tower of Silence, known as Dakhma in the sacred avestan tongue, near Yazd, Iran. The ancient Zoroastrian tradition considers decomposing human flesh to be so unclean, that its contact with the sacred elements of earth, water or fire would pollute them. Corpses were therefore aligned on the circular roof of the tower were vultures — a sacred animal in Zoroastrian's belief — would devour the flesh.
(Stausberg, Michael. Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. Brill, n.d.)

Iznik charger with foliate rim, fritware with underglaze decoration, 1480.
(Istanbul Archeological Museum)

Dakhma near Yazd, seen from a ruined caravanserai. The encroaching development of surrounding cities and the gradual transformation of belief and demographics forced extended negotiations in Yazd, Kerman, and Tehran to eventually substitute the Dakhma with cemeteries. Referencing traditional beliefs, the graves were lined with rocks and plastered with cement to prevent direct contact of the flesh with the earth.
(Stausberg, Michael. Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. Brill, n.d.)

The Dance of Salome, tempera on panel, Benozzo Gozzoli, 1461-62. Although the perspective of the painting is geometrically correct, the ambiguous scale of the figures tend to distort the space.
(Berenson, Bernard. The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. Phaidon Press, 1959)

Reconstruction of Ames room 2, from the research by Adelbert Ames Jr., 1983.
(nickshell1983.files.wordpress.com)

Parthenon, photograph from Frédéric Boissonnas, 1908.
(Neils, Jenifer. The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Despite his previous accomplishments, the true measure of Bernardo Rossellino's architectural place in history lies in the extraordinary project he undertook for Pope Pius II Piccolomini at Pienza between 1459 and 1464.
(Tönnesmann, Andreas. Pienza, Städtebau und Humanismus. Hirmer Verlag, 1996)

Edfu Temple of Horus, a major Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 BC and 57 BC, during the reign of Cleopatra VII. Built from sandstone blocks, it is one of the most completely preserved temple remains in Egypt.
(Michalowski, Kazimierz. L'art De L'ancienne Egypte. Editions d'art Lucien Mazenod, 1968)

Detail from Peinture, oil on canvas, Pierre Soulages. "Dans mes peintures, il s'agit d'une lumière réfléchie, transformée et transmutée par le noir. Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est d'explorer les variations possibles des états de surface du noir".
(pierre-soulages.com)

Neo-Assyrian clay tablet depicting the Epic of Gilgamesh. Tablet 11: Story of the Flood. Known as the "Flood Tablet", it is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature.
(British Museum)

Step Pyramid of Meidum, originally built for King Huni 3rd Dynasty. The architect was a successor to the famous Imhotep — the inventor of the stone pyramid. He modified Imhotep's pyramid design in a way which is likely to have lead to its collapse while still under construction. Its unusual appearance has earned it the sobriquet: el-haram el-kaddab (Fake Pyramid) in Egyptian Arabic.
(Brooklyn Museum Archives)

Cuyahoga River Fire, November the 3rd, 1952, Ohio. Considered the most polluted river in the United States, the river caught fire thirteen times previously from 1868.
(Cleveland Press Collection at Cleveland State University Library.)

Villa Besnus (Ker-Ka-Ré:), by le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Vaucresson, 2010.
(Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris)

Villa Besnus (Ker-Ka-Ré:), by le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Vaucresson, 1922.
(Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris)

Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Kōshū Kajikazawa) the thirty-second of the "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji" ukiyo-e series, woodblock print, Katsushika Hokusai, 1830.
(Forrer, Matthi. Hokusai: Prints and Drawings. Reprint. Prestel, 2009)

Machu Picchu, Peru, sacred stone, 1450-1500 AD.
(Summers, David. Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. Phaidon Press, 2003)

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais. Construction began in 1225 and was permanently abandoned after a series of structural failures culminated in the 1284 collapse of the vaulting in the interior choir. The cathedral reached the unsurpassable height of 48 metres, but was considered cursed due to its successive failures that ultimately led to a change of ambition in future building in the middle Gothic style.
(fuckyeahgothiccathedrals.tumblr.com)

Engraving of an Interior of a public cafe in Constantinople on the Bosphorus by Anton Ignaz Melling, 1819.
(Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories and the City. 2005)

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Francesco Borromini, Rome, 1665.
(Morrissey, Jake. The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome. Harper Perennial, 2006)

The metal artifact reduction sequence (MARS) is a modified spin-echo pulse sequence that uses view angle tilting.
(roentgenrayreader.blogspot.ch)

The MTF Tool is designed for the measurement of the spatial resolution of radiology and mammography systems and is delivered with an aluminum plate.
(artinis.com)

Collage from "Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban", possibly the self portrait of the artist Jan van Eyck from 1433 - brother of the equally famous Hubert van Eyck. The absence of any proof that Hubert existed, leads to the theory that he was a fabrication in order to work the art market.
(hooks, 2013)

Photograph of Ottoman windows in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.
(hooks, 2011)

Sacred grove, stage design for Parsifal by Adolphe Appia, 1896.
(Collection Suisse du Theatre, Bern)

A skull uncovered in Tell Ramad (Modern Syria) shows evidence of a unique burial practice of the Neo-lithic period. In this instance, the skull was removed from the skeleton and sculpted with lime-plaster to mimic the original face. It was then installed on a clay tablet, and aligned with other subjects along the base of a wall in the main living space of a domestic setting.
(Fortin, Michel. Syria, Land of Civilizations. Musée de la civilisation, Québec, 1999)

Ray, Satyajit. Jalsaghar (Bengali: "The Music Room"). Drama, 1958.
(Screenshot 13/07/2006)

Jai Prakash Yantra, Jantar Mantar Observatory, literally "calculation instrument", Jaipur, 1728.
(Günther Eichhorn, 1999)

Asphalt Rundown, Robert Smithson, 1969, Rome.
(Graziani, Ron. Robert Smithson and the American Landscape. First Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Herzog, Werner. Fitzcarraldo. Drama, 1982.
(Screenshot 19/12/2012)

"Your body requires resistances in order to grow", Matthew Barney on the origins of "Drawing restraint". Drawing Restraint 5, photograph, Matthew Barney,1989.
(Michael Rees Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York City)

View from one corner of the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops.
(touregypt.net)

Former Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Former Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, the original leaders of the Shanghai Five in St Petersburg on June the 7th, 2002.
(archive.kremlin.ru)

Aerial view of a part of the excavated site of Jerf al-Ahmer. Site of the earliest known indication of the shift from isolated dwellings of circular plan to those of straight walls grouped together in a decipherable urban configuration.
(Fortin, Michel. Syria, Land of Civilizations. Musée de la civilisation, Québec, 1999)

Marcel Duchamp playing chess on a sheet of glass. Photographed by Arnold Rosenberg, 1958.
(Naumann, Francis M., Bradley Bailey, and Jennifer Shahade. Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. First Edition. Readymade Press, 2009)

The central panel of the Polyptych of the Misericordia, Oil and tempera on panel, Piero della Francesca, 1460-1462. Depicting the common motif of the Virgin of Mercy or Madonna della Misericordia.
(Berenson, Bernard. Piero Della Francesca. Chapman & Hall, 1954)

Rescue operation during the Bangkok floods, 2011.
(Screenshot from Al jazeera 16/10/2011)

Detail of the painter Victoria Meurent's breast in Olympia, oil on canvas, Edouard Manet, 1863.
(Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Project Excelsior was a series of parachute jumps made by Colonel Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force. Jumping from helium balloons stationed in the stratosphere, Kittingers free-fall set a long-standing world record of 13 minutes and 45 seconds, and reached a top speed of 988 km/h. Photograph taken on the 8/16/1960.
(nationalmuseum.af.mil)

Yasunari Kawabata at work at his house in Nagatani of Kamakura, 1946.
(unknown)

Time's Arrow, a piece in Hiroshi Sugimoto's "History of History", combines a reliquary fragment with a seascape and deals with the interconnection between the modern and the ancient — a frequent theme in Sugimoto's work. Offset lithograph, 1987 from a Seascape, 1980 / reliquary fragment, Kamakura Period, 13th Century.
(Japan Society, New York)

Meditation, Stage 4: The centre in the midst of the conditions. The Golden Flower is the ancient Chinese method of ascension as practiced in the Quanzhen School of Taoism.
(Wilhelm, Richard, trans. The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Revised. Mariner Books, 1962)

Delineator, Installation, Richard Serra, 1974-75. Inspired by the work of the Russian abstract painter Kazimir Malevich and the aesthetic theory of Suprematism. Delineator is formed by the space between the two and a half ton steel plates of 10' x 26' (304.8 cm x 792.48 cm).
(moma.org)

Maryhill Double, temporary installation, Lead Pencil Studio, 2006. The work was built to the exact proportions of the Maryhill Museum and installed as a mirror image on the opposite side of the Columbia Gorge. The double was classified as a "billboard" for zoning and legal purposes.
(leadpencilstudio.org)

Saint Francis Church Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Ansel Adams, 1929, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
(The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)

Oct. 29, 2012. A video still of what appears to be an exploding transformer, shot from a rooftop in Brooklyns Navy Yards during the arrival of hurricane Sandy in New York City.
(cbsnews.com)

Water released from the Xiaolangdi dam to clear up the sediment-laden Yellow river to prevent localized flooding. July 6th, 2012, Jiyuan, Henan province.
(AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images)

One of the disputed islands in the East China Sea. A territorial dispute over the uninhabited islands has caused public demonstration and economic sanctions. Known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan.
(Seattle Times, 30/09/2012)

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, first edition, Cassell & Company, 1883.
(abebooks.com)

Marlon Brando as 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the bounty, directed by Lewis Milestone, 1962.
(screenshot, 17/06/2011)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with a sky hook over Seattle's Xavier McDaniel in 1989. A hook shot required the fluid motion of the entire body and the release of the ball at the highest point of the arm's arching motion. Abdul-Jabbar crafted the shot into an indefensible offensive weapon that would underline his .559 lifetime field goal percentage. According to Abdul-Jabbar, he learned the move in fifth grade after practicing with the Mikan Drill and soon learned to value it, as it was "the only shot I could use that didn't get smashed back in my face".
(Reed Saxon, 1989)

The Gospel Church of Power. Photographed by Jurie Senekal.
(Subirós, Pep. Africas. The Artist and the City. A Journey and an Exhibition. Centre de Culture Contemporània de Barcelona, 2001)

A family tombstone commissioned by Tiberio Filippiano around the year 200 AD for his wife Flavia Irene and her two children on the Via Appia Antica, Rome. Constructed around 200 AD, rediscovered in 1851.
(Ashby, Thomas. Sulla Via Appia Da Roma a Brindisi. L'erma di Bretschneider, 2003)

In 1401 Klaus Störtebeker and his 73 companions were sentenced to death for piracy and beheaded at Grasbrook, Hamburg. To salvage such a fated end, Störtebeker asked the mayor to release as many of his companions as he could walk past after being beheaded. The request was granted, and following the beheading, Störtebeker's body arose and walked past eleven of his men before being tripped by the outstretched foot of the executioner. Detail of Störtebeker's memorial, a bronze statue by Hansjörg Wagner, Hamburg.
(Gerd Böh)

"You try to move the borders a little bit further, and then you realize how easily the art world can absorb any blow. But that's OK, I guess that's part of the game." A Perfect Day, C-print laid down on forex on aluminium, Maurizio Cattelan, 1999.
(Mark Thiessen, 2012)

Göbekli Tepe (turkish: "Potbelly Hill") is a Neolithic hilltop sanctuary erected at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey, some 15 kilometers northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa. It is the oldest known human-made religious structure dated to the 10th millennium BCE. Under excavation since 1994 by German and Turkish archaeologists, it has revolutionized understanding of Eurasian Neolithic history.
(Arnold Wu, 2012)

The Deepsea Challenger, the one-man deep-diving submarine on a test dive off Papua New Guinea.
(Mark Thiessen, 2012)