1888

Sayaji Rao meets Ravi Varma in Ooty and commissions fourteen paintings drawn from the epics to decorate the Durbar hall in the newly built Laxmi Vilas Palace

Sound: He used a zinc disc covered with a thin layer of beeswax, the recording sound box was moved across the disc as it rotated. Then it was etched with choromic acid.

Photograph: The scene with the pioneer's wet plates required speed, the luck of an alchemist and the dexterity of an acrobat( returned to his darkroom, prepared his dark plate, cleaned it with cotton or brushes, coated it with viscous collodion, then immersed it with silver nitrate, recovered the exposed plate from camera, immersed the plate in developer).

Sunflowers. Van Gogh. Adding Machines