Ilos

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Only one film score is so goated that it made nine guys walking past a rock one of the most iconic scenes in the entire trilogy.

[Bart 🌊⚓️ @BartGonnissen]

For a century before steam, ships went where the wind let them. This video uses the CLIWOC database: more than 250,000 noon positions copied from Dutch, British, Spanish and French ships' logbooks between 1750 and 1855. First every voyage is folded into a single year, so the fleets move with the seasons. Then the tracks build up into the full century.
The routes are wind routes. Ships bound for the Cape swung far west towards Brazil to get round the calms and the southeast trade winds, then ran east before the westerlies. Dutch ships for Batavia followed the Brouwer route through the Roaring Forties before turning north to Java. British ships fill the Indian Ocean on their way to India and China, and Spanish ships head for the Río de la Plata and the Caribbean.

[kenichi.wiz @Kenichi_Wiz_]

高低差日本一の三段紅葉が美しい - 富山 立山 -

[Oguz @kuzeyokumaps]

Day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge : Sight.
In 9th-century Byzantium, nine hilltop fires carried a warning of Abbasid raids from the Taurus frontier to Constantinople. My best-scoring reconstruction: 646 km, about 84 minutes by fire. A courier needed about 4.5 days.

[Syd Mead - Official @sydmeadofficial]

A quiet poem about the hope of human advancement. This concept came to Mead as he routinely gazed at the moon as it lingered in the daylight sky over his home in Capistrano, California. Look once and it is a ghost moon in hushed blue. Look closer and its equator is humming — automated factories have been hollowed into a continuous industrial band circling its surface. What we see is a moon transformed into a vast production center, built to move industry away from Earth so that the planet might recover.

Moon 2000
1979
Gouache on board

Syd Mead: Future Pastime
Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery
535 Washington St., San Francisco
Weds-Sun, 11am-6pm
On view through December 17
https://t.co/tCMK8qt7Da

[梨太郎@辺境の画家 @artistonthefrnt]

各都道府県の食料自給率
東北&北海道に離脱されると日本は詰むって話か…

[にゃんこそば🌤データ可視化 @ShinagawaJP]

新宿18時発、夕方の列車をアニメーションにしてみた。
小田急と京王・JRの競争が面白いし、列車の軌跡が「路線図」を描く様子も見応えがある。
19時半を過ぎても郊外に線路が伸びていくあたり、首都圏は広い･･･。(･ㅅ･)

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2 : Lines

[曳舟観測所 @sanitywiped]

今朝は気持ちよく晴れました。
https://t.co/HM8lNU7bcc

#東京スカイツリー #トーチタワー #富士山

[Tolkien Art @SeanMac67914982]

New Illustration by Ted Nasmith

"The Road to Lorien", gouache on board, 24 x 15". It's the latest private commission. It's a challenge as a scene due to a lack of any reference to snow, despite that they were emerging from Moria onto the mountains in the dead of winter.
⬇️

[Faz @fazforfaramir]

Approaching Edoras, illustrated by Ted Nasmith

[victorards @vicardspixel]

cozy night

#pixelart #ドット絵

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This animated map shows how snow and ice expand across the Northern Hemisphere during winter and retreat as temperatures rise in spring and summer. The enormous seasonal transformation of our planet is mesmerising to watch. Source: https://t.co/ZLGtwfN6lj

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

What has stayed the same and what has changed — Jinan济南 across 700 years.

[静勝軒 中世の江戸を精密鳥瞰図で再現してみた @uuw3T6x4rkW5uvk]

1336年頃、室町前期の浅草寺を
少し修正して画像にしてみました。

左上には千束池
右上には隅田川を入れました。
画像の角度ですと本来は隅田川は入らないのですが
少しだけ入れてみました。

この当時は本格的伽藍整備の前段階と
私は考えています。

中世の江戸　鳥瞰図
↓
https://t.co/zwxDnveDzg

[Keiryosha | まちの計量舎 @machi_measure]

東京上空、飛行機はどこを飛んでいるのか。約1か月分の航空機の観測位置を、可視化してみました✈️

羽田・成田から伸びる航路はもちろん、米軍や自衛隊の基地へ向かう飛行経路も見えて面白い。

データとして使っている「ADS-B」は、航空機が位置・高度・速度などを電波で周囲に送信する仕組みで、世界各地の受信機で観測されたデータが公開されています。今回は2026年3月31日〜4月30日の観測位置をメッシュ単位で集計し、観測回数の少ないメッシュを除いて表示しています。

[きりや⭕ @kiriyasan_1123]

2年前の写真だけど、大東京って感じがする

[Jean-Claude Golvin @JCGolvin]

En ce jeudi 22 octobre 2026, la boutique vous invite à (re)découvrir cette représentation de “Notre-Dame de Paris en chantier (au Moyen Âge)” par Jean-Claude Golvin. ⚒️

Imprimé sur commande, le dessin est au format paysage et proposé dans les dimensions 70 x 100 cm.

[ぴんぽいんと @pinpoint_m]

能登から帰ると東京がまぶしすぎる。

[やさもさ @yasa_mosa]

MMX行けー！
都内から
#ロケット見えた
#MMX

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Most people in ancient Rome lived in rented apartments.

Today, a 1,900-YEAR-OLD Roman apartment block is still standing in Rome, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill.

Records from the 4th century say the city had about 46,000 apartment blocks, called “insulae.” In comparison, there were fewer than 2,000 private houses.

Some of these buildings were so tall that Augustus banned anything higher than 70 Roman feet (about 20 meters). Later, Emperor Trajan lowered the limit to 60 Roman feet.

The floors worked the opposite way from today. Shops were on the ground floor, and rich tenants lived on the first floor. The higher you went, the cheaper the rent and the worse the living conditions: there was no running water, there were fewer windows, and there were a lot of stairs to climb.