One of my favorite Rembrandt paintings of all time, The Three Crosses.  The various groups, from Pharisees to soldiers to weeping women vividly portrays the equally varied types of relational stances toward the cross.  In the midst of controlled realism, Rembrandt’s faces always point the viewer toward the inner man.

Horsetail Falls in Yosemite Valley is selectively backlit by the setting sun.

“This was an amazing spectacle to witness. Happening only two weeks out of the year, the setting sun falls behind the vertical face of El Capitan, selectively lighting this waterfall with its orange sunset light. Gradually growing in intensity and color for the last 5 minutes or so, it was like seeing a narrow strip of lava flowing down the face of El Capitan.”

Natural Firefall (via Jeff Sullivan)

“Born on this date in 1834 in the small village of Aremzyani, in what was then considered Siberia, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev would go on, in 1869, to publish the first periodic table of the chemical elements. Mendeleev used the periodicity he’d observed in the properties of then-known elements to accurately predict many of the properties of germanium, gallium, and scandium, which had not yet been discovered. Mendeleev died in St. Petersburg in 1907, at the age of 72. Element number 101 is named mendelevium in his honor.”

-Via Make

I found this very cool exhibit from the University of Texas via the I Love Typography blog.  Apparently, the University of Texas purchased a Gutenberg bible for $2.8 million back in 1978 and they have now scanned nearly every page and made them available in a nifty browser for your perusal.  During my trip to New York this summer, I had the pleasure of seeing one of these at the New York Public Library.