September 21st, 2018 8:25am
Tumblr posts from 2018
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Miguel de Cervantes, The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson ( London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1956 ).
September 11th, 2018 8:33pm
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September 11th, 2018 11:18am
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When you fall through a kiddy pool and end up in the Coca-Cola Hellscape.
September 9th, 2018 9:18am
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__后会有期 (until we meet again), 2018
seraphina fong
acrylic on wet wipe
September 9th, 2018 9:16am
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Ugo Rondinone, Erstermärzzweitausendundsechzehn, 2016
Esther Schipper GallerySeptember 2nd, 2018 8:23am
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August 27th, 2018 7:19am
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August 19th, 2018 8:19pm
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My coworker took out the trash and found this… via https://ift.tt/2JXJr2Q putyouinabettermood.com
August 19th, 2018 8:18pm
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This is why baby boomers think we can pay for school while having a part time job
August 19th, 2018 8:13pm
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August 16th, 2018 7:51am
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2015.3.30_15.47.47_frame_0002
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August 16th, 2018 7:49am
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The Philosophy of Time Travel, Roberta Sparrow (Donnie Darko)
Linear? Circular?
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Slinkytime™
August 15th, 2018 7:41am
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August 15th, 2018 7:40am
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GUNSLINGER: ON THE BEACH (1981) by Michael Whelan, illustration for The Gunslinger by Stephen King
August 14th, 2018 7:51am
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August 12th, 2018 10:11am
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August 10th, 2018 5:43pm
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Eerie photo of the Yellow Brick Road from an abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in North Carolina.
August 9th, 2018 8:28am
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60 Years Ago.
**Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
**“The Harlem Branch was one of the first to be formed outside California. Over the years, the Harlem Branch became the central offices for the entire state of New York.”August 9th, 2018 8:22am
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August 9th, 2018 8:21am
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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin holding a dove that flew into his hand during a concert in 1973. Check this blog!
August 5th, 2018 7:04am
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Video: I just saw something crazy/hilarious. I’ve always loved how green the grass is at Yerba Buena Gardens. It turns out it’s because THEY SPRAY-PAINT IT GREEN. 😂
August 2nd, 2018 8:38pm
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Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having guillotined everyone else, 18th century
July 30th, 2018 7:55am
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July 27th, 2018 8:34am
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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]
Iv never seen a hummingbird sit before lol
July 27th, 2018 8:26am
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Beatkit™ was a brand without a product that promised to cease and desist in the year 2000, which it did. Beatkit’s mantra was “the general gloss of falsity is our only product”, which was a long-winded way of saying “Beatkit: it’s all lies.” So despite what I say it actually did have a product, the RemoverInstaller™, which was a baby rattle type of device except with no rattle and no moving parts. It had no function or utility of any kind, except to inspire an ad campaign around itself, Panic Now. Panic Now was similar to other real-world ad campaigns, except it dispensed with any pretense to romance or amuse you and instead just focused on the naked howling truth of all ads, i.e. “Stop whatever you”re doing and look at this. You don’t even know what it is but you need it. Don’t try to reason your way through it or out of it, just panic. Now.”
Shawn Wolfe (interview by Kristen Rask of Schmancy Toys, CrownDozen, 2007)
As Real As It Gets runs from November 16 till December 22. It opens on Thursday, November 15: 6-8 pm.
Apexart is located at 291 Church Street , New York, NY 10013 USA
See you there!
July 21st, 2018 9:12am
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VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET
This is truly incredible.
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
July 16th, 2018 8:34pm
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I feel wonderful drinking beer, in a blissful mood, with joy in my heart and a happy liver.
— ancient Sumerian poet, circa 3000 BCE (via historical-nonfiction)
July 16th, 2018 8:15pm
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On this day in music history: March 2, 1983 - The Compact Disc makes its debut in the US. Research and development of the technology begins in 1974 when engineers from Philips Electronics of The Netherlands begin developing an optical audio disc designed to have superior audio quality and durability to the vinyl record. Two years later in 1976, Sony Electronics of Japan create their own prototype digital audio disc, with a 16 bit sampling rate of 44,056 hz per second. Philips and Sony Electronics begin working together in 1979 to design a new digital audio disc in a joint venture. The discs are five inches in diameter, are made of polycarbonite plastic and aluminum, and are etched with a binary code that when read by a laser turns the information back into an analog signal. The discs maintain the 16 bit sampling rate increased to 44,100 hz with a maximum running time of seventy four minutes. The first titles released by Polygram and CBS are a combination of classical and pop music titles. The format revolutionizes the music industry, surpassing sales of vinyl records and cassettes by 1985.
July 16th, 2018 8:09pm
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First And Only Test Of US Nuclear Artillery Cannon Nicknamed “Atomic Annie.” Nevada. 1953.
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“Vote American Labor Party Roosevelt and Lehman,” Poster by the ALP for the Presidential Election, 1936.
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i can’t go another day without air conditioning paper says tomorrow’s gonna be hotter hotter? like yesterday yesterday? yesterday you said you’d call sears I’ll call today you’ll call now I’ll call now
July 4th, 2018 7:16am
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#TBT: 1983
Magnificent Online Dad Face in this gif.
“Who’s ‘groovy’ now, eh kids? Look, spreadsheets.”
Obsolescence Is Virtue.™
July 2nd, 2018 10:56pm
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Fabián Burgos (Argentinian, b. 1962), Sin Titulo [untitled], 2015. Oil on canvas, 59.06 × 78.75 in (150 × 200 cm). via
July 1st, 2018 7:50am
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WOW!!! Taken by my BFF on her way through Emeryville this morning.
June 22nd, 2018 8:04am
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so you have a plastic wine bottle; am I supposed to be impressed?
June 20th, 2018 8:39am
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Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease
Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero. She:
- was admitted to Julliard at 8.
- was performing in top venues by 16.
- pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.
- was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.
- went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.” Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.
- refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.
She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten. But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.
Let’s un-forget her.
June 11th, 2018 8:30pm
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TIL German has a word for an improvement that makes things worse: verschlimmbesserung
via reddit.com
June 7th, 2018 10:39pm
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The One with Joey’s Mom
Ross is horrified to discover upon waking that his limbs all now bend the precise opposite directions. Frantically seeking help, he tries to get in touch with the others, but can’t figure out how to interact with any of his belongings.
Monica starts hearing the audience’s laughter and concludes she’s going insane. She tells Chandler about it but when he tries to reply coins gush endlessly out of his mouth. Through them he gurgles at her, “could I be barfing any more coins?”
Phoebe takes apart an old pocket watch in the middle of Central Perk Café and eats each piece one at a time with a little dollop of whipped cream. After each swallow she smiles delightedly at the other customers and daintily wipes her mouth with the corner of a napkin, announcing “I’m on a diet!”
Rachel is at first flattered, then alarmed when she notices increasing numbers of people sporting her exact hairstyle and referring to it as “The Rachel”.
Joey finally climbs out of his mother’s pouch.
June 7th, 2018 10:31pm
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June 2nd, 2018 7:26pm
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Woody with a Dry Finish
Sam and Woody start a contest over who can make the worst drink, and end up sending a customer to the hospital.
Norm fuses permanently with his bar seat but shrugs it off because now he’ll be able to sit down wherever he goes.
Rebecca won’t stop slamming the office door but her fury scares the others too much to ask her why she’s upset. When Paul finally works up the courage to talk to her, she bites his hand off and swallows it whole, never breaking eye contact.
Cliff brings a bear into the bar to prove to the others once and for all that he’s not a coward, but is disappointed when they still don’t respect him even after he gets mauled to death.
When a man shows up claiming to be a reincarnated Coach, Frasier tries to suss out the truth through hypnotherapy. Somehow the man knows all the details of all of their lives. When Frasier mutters aloud, “how is this possible?” the man, still in a trance, replies, “I watch the show.”
Carla stands on the bar and grins directly into the camera throughout the entire episode.
June 2nd, 2018 7:24pm
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Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales, Eulalie Osgood Grover (and photos probably by Harry Whittier Frees), 1911
June 2nd, 2018 7:22pm
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The hand of a sea captain branded with the letters “S.S.’’ for slave stealer, as punishment for trying to help slaves escape from Florida to Massachusetts, 1845.
Mark of pride.
May 26th, 2018 8:04am
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May 21st, 2018 10:04pm
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May 8 2018 - Sheila Hines-Brim covers LAPD Police chief Charlie Beck in the ashes of her niece Wakiesha Wilson, who was likely killed in LAPD custody in 2016.
The LAPD claims she committed suicide, but an attorney representing Wilson’s family said there were no signs Wilson was distraught when she spoke to relatives on the phone after her arrest and again the following morning, about 90 minutes before her death. She made plans to call them later in the day during their Easter celebration and talk to her 13-year-old son. [video]
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Horacio Garcia Rossi (Argentinian, 1926 – 2012), Sans titre [untitled], 1979. Tempera on cardboard, 8 × 8 cm. via
May 1st, 2018 9:56am
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and His Inimitable Stair Dance
Early in his dancing career, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson performed on a custom double staircase that added drama to his act, increasing his visibility to the audience while amplifying the sound of every step he made.
“As generations of imitators would learn to their grief, the properties of the staircase that magnified Robinson’s mastery equally magnify the slightest imperfection,” Brian Seibert, in his book What the Eye Hears, wrote. “Dancers tell a story in which he had his musicians cut out for three and a half minutes while he continued dancing. After the allotted time, the musicians came back in, cued by a metronome that Robinson couldn’t hear. He was exactly on beat.”
April 28th, 2018 5:21pm
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Dennis Dun and Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Kurt is the only human to pull off a mullet.
April 25th, 2018 6:16pm
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April 23rd, 2018 10:26pm
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A few of my posters have turned up in the strangest places.
Mostly decorating the walls of fictional 21st century film protagonists.
From top to bottom:Buying the Cow, (Destination Films, 2002)
Jennifer’s Body, (20th Century Fox, 2009)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, (Universal Pictures, 2010)April 23rd, 2018 10:26pm
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You are BRILLIANT. Never let anyone tell you that you’re not, including yourself. Because every facet of who you are is worth keeping free from toxic, including tobacco. 💎
April 23rd, 2018 10:25pm
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“Yow! It’s one of them roberts, or whatever you call it!”
—”Robot, you fathead! Step on the gas, stupid”
April 22nd, 2018 10:10am
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Did you know that Rube Goldberg was born in SF and went to Lowell High School? They have an exhibit on his art at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
April 22nd, 2018 7:40am
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How Ernie and Bert were made. Snaps from the workshop showing Don Sahlin at work, 1969.
On his table Jim Henson’s original sketch, which I’ve posted before HERE.
April 22nd, 2018 7:38am
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August, 1945. A billboard at Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee warns people to keep silent about anything they see or hear there. Oak Ridge was a town built in 1942 to house workers and the laboratory that developed the Manhattan Project – the secret second world war program that built the atomic bomb. [G]
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Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1964).
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April 1st, 2018 8:09am
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Re-Coloring An Ancient Roman Bust
Ancient Romans (and Greeks) didn’t have pure marble-white art. They painted their stone art to imitate real-life color. Take this bust for example, found at the tomb of Publius Vergilius Maro in Naples, Italy. When it was first placed at his tomb, the bust would have been painted like so.
Side note: Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE – 19 BCE) known to most simply as Virgil, was a famous poet who enjoyed the favor of the first Roman emperor Augustus.
March 29th, 2018 8:48pm
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The first hint that something might be different this time came the morning after the shootings, from a Douglas High School sophomore named Sarah Chadwick, who informed the President of the United States, via his favorite medium, in words that quickly went viral, “I don’t want your condolences you fucking piece of shit, my friends and teachers were shot.”
Their grief was raw, their rage palpable. Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Douglas, had the most searing indictment:
“The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call B.S.
“Companies, trying to make caricatures of the teen-agers nowadays, saying that all we are are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submissions when our message doesn’t reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call B.S.
“Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the N.R.A., telling us nothing could ever be done to prevent this: we call B.S.
“They say that tougher gun laws do not prevent gun violence: we call B.S.”
The crowd was now joining in.
“They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun: we call B.S.
“They say guns are just tools, like knives, and are as dangerous as cars: we call B.S.
“They say that no laws would have been able to prevent the hundreds of senseless tragedies that occur: we call B.S.
“That us kids don’t know what we’re talking about, that we’re too young to understand how the government works.” The crowd was now in a frenzy of anger and sadness, the people around me were tearing up as they yelled, “We call B.S.”
And then, in unison, the people gathered began to chant, “Vote them out, vote them out, vote them out.”
– Emily Witt, The New Yorker
March 24th, 2018 10:33pm
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Mika Tajima, Furniture Art (Napuka), 2017
Taro Nasu GalleryMarch 19th, 2018 7:48am
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The First Pizza Joint
Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, in Naples, Italy, is widely considered the world’s first pizzeria. It was first established in 1738 as a peddler’s stand. In 1830, it became a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the town center. Since its opening day, their ovens have been lined with lava rocks taken from nearby Mount Vesuvius.
March 17th, 2018 8:37am
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Dana Wsye, ‘Pills & Remedies’, from the series ‘Jesus Had A Sister Productions’, 1996-2003
Canadian artist creates fictitious pharmaceutical company that uses 60′s retro and kitsch imagery to sell cures and remedies that aim to dissect our utopic quest for perfection.
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The Best-Named Law - Ever.
When Virginia senator William B. Spong Jr. first went to Washington in 1966, he worried that the media might mistakenly pronounce his name as “Sponge.” But he observed that his Senate colleagues included Russell B. Long (D-La.) and Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawaii).
So in introducing himself at the National Press Club, he announced that the three of them would be introducing a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. It would be called the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. They never introduced the bill, but the media never mispronounced Spong’s name.
March 5th, 2018 9:26pm
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Long Exposure Photos Capture the Light Paths of Drones Above Mountainous Landscapes
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The biggest ocean oil spill in history occurred in 1991, during the First Gulf War. Iraqi soldiers retreating from Kuwait opened oil wells and pipelines in an attempt to slow U.S. troops. About 240 million gallons of oil spilled into the Persian Gulf, creating a slick roughly the size of Hawaii.
March 5th, 2018 9:16pm
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The wee tails make this pilot formation training even more excellent.
March 3rd, 2018 7:16am
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Karen Arm
Untitled (Yellow Red Sun on Black Red), 2014
watercolor on paper
18 x 15 inchesMarch 2nd, 2018 9:07pm
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The first public demonstration of a computer mouse, graphical user interface, windowed computing, hypertext and word processing, 1968
March 2nd, 2018 8:58pm
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Safely home.
Great photo from this morning, by Bill Ingalls @nasa! (at Kazakhstan)
March 1st, 2018 8:34am
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Lorenz Spring, Seerosen, 2016 - 2017
Galerie CarzanigaMarch 1st, 2018 8:25am
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Cliente: “Quanto tempo ci vorrà per terminare il lavoro ?”
Io: “Circa sei settimane”
Cliente: “Lo devi fare in due settimane”
Io: “Ok, provo a spiegarmi meglio”Client: “How much time will it take to finish this job?”
Me: “About six weeks”
Client: “You have two weeks.”
Me: “OK, I’ll try to explain myself better.”February 20th, 2018 8:13pm
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Dancers on a Plane, 1980-81
Oil and acrylic on canvas with painted bronze frame, 78 3/4 x 63 3/4 in
February 20th, 2018 7:24am
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Renowned Author Cyber Pioneer Cliff Stoll Mesmerizes at CrowdStrike Conference - YouTube
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Andy Warhol, Camouflage (pink), 1986
Richard Gray GalleryFebruary 15th, 2018 7:32am
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Demolition of another building revealed this long hidden mural for the Dundalk branch of Eddie’s Market.
20 Dundalk Ave., Dundalk, Md
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She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses … and she thought of the time she’d opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outwards patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. There’d seemed no limit to what the printed circuit could have told her (if she had tried to find out); so in her first minute in San Narciso, a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.
— Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (via feirett)
February 9th, 2018 7:19pm
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Oh look, two public bike racks rendered completely unusable because of a company that’s making money off of them
February 8th, 2018 7:21pm
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A Series of Ordinary Humans and Creatures Trapped Within Their Pop Culture Depictions
February 8th, 2018 4:38am
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Recently washed rugs being laid out to dry near Tehran, Iran. Circa 1972.
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Yes’ 1971 Fragile album artwork by Roger Dean. Front cover, back cover, and additional paintings from the same narrative.
February 1st, 2018 7:40am
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Game of Death Japanese program (Bruce Lee & Robert Clouse, 1978)
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True love never goes extinct. Illustration by Ron Embleton for Omni magazine (February 1988).
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Throughout Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
This is the manchineel, known sometimes as the beach apple, or more accurately in Spanish-speaking countries as la manzanilla de la muerte, which translates to “the little apple of death,” or as arbol de la muerte, “tree of death.”
“Warning: all parts of manchineel are extremely poisonous. The content in this document is strictly informational. Interaction with and ingestion of any part of this tree may be lethal,” write Michael G. Andreu and Melissa H. Friedman of the University of Florida in a brief guide to the tree.
This is not an exaggeration. The fruits, though described as sweet and tasty, are extraordinarily toxic. Fatalities are not known in modern literature, though it’s certainly possible that people have died from eating the fruit of the manchineel. “Shipwrecked sailors have been reported to have eaten manchineel fruits and, rather than dying a violent death, they had inflammations and blistering around the mouth. Other people have been diagnosed with severe stomach and intestinal issues,” says Roger Hammer, a naturalist and botanist who has written many books about the flora of Florida. (Source)
January 24th, 2018 9:42pm
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This makes me laugh so much
“Yeah I’m in a bouncy house, but will this country ever bounce back from our current administration?”
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“Wizard vs. the Wizards” competition, 1982, hosted by Catherine Mary Stewart. It was arguably the first “e-sports” competition, with video gamers going head to head.
Randy Meisner performed live. He heard it was a convention for burgundy velour tracksuit swingers only.
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In 1670, Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, ordered the planting of the Forest of Tronçais to provide masts for the French navy 200 years hence. His order established one of the principal stands of oaks in Europe, carefully interplanted with beeches and larches to encourage them to grow straight, tall, and free of knots. By the time they matured, in the 19th century, they were no longer necessary. Historian Fernand Braudel wrote, “Colbert had thought of everything except the steamship.”
January 21st, 2018 11:57am
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January 20th, 2018 6:59pm
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I was in orbit during a US Govt shutdown. The Cdn Prime Minister tried to call, but no one was at NASA HQ to answer. I did talk to several nice people on the ham radio, though.
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The sign you always want to see when you’re already late for work in the morning
January 18th, 2018 6:47pm
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Rest in peace, Dean Allen
I heard a couple of days ago that Dean Allen died last weekend. His friend Om Malik has a fine remembrance of him here.
Who was Dean? There are so many ways to answer that question. You could call him a text designer, who loved the web and wanted to make it beautiful, long before others thought of making typography an essential part of the online reading experience. You could call him a Canadian, even though he spent a large part of his life in Avignon, South of France, with his partner. A writer whose prose could make your soul ache who stopped writing, because, it didn’t matter. Or you could think of him as like an old-fashioned: sweet, bitter and strong, who left you intoxicated because of his friendship.
Dean was a web person…someone who could do all of the things necessary to make a website – design, write, code – and damn him, he did them all really well. I got to know him through a pair of sites he built, Textism and Cardigan. His writing was clever and pithy and engaging and you wanted to hate him but couldn’t because he was the nicest guy, the sort of person who would invite you to stay at his house even if you’d never even met him before. He also built Favrd, which was a direct inspiration for Stellar.
Weirdly, or maybe not, my two biggest memories of Dean involve food. One of my favorite little pieces of writing by him (or anyone else for that matter), is How to Cook Soup:
First, you need some water. Fuse two hydrogen with one oxygen and repeat until you have enough. While the water is heating, raise some cattle. Pay a man with grim eyes to do the slaughtering, preferably while you are away. Roast the bones, then add to the water. Go away again. Come back once in awhile to skim. When the bones begin to float, lash together into booms and tow up the coast. Reduce. Keep reducing. When you think you have reduced enough, reduce some more. Raise some barley. When the broth coats the back of a spoon and light cannot escape it, you are nearly there. Pause to mop your brow as you harvest the barley. Search in vain for a cloud in the sky. Soak the barley overnight (you will need more water here), then add to the broth. When, out of the blue, you remember the first person you truly loved, the soup is ready. Serve.
In 2002, when Meg and I were staying in France for a month between moves, Dean and his partner invited us down to their house for a couple of days. Like I said, we’d never actually met and he collected us at the train station all the same. We ate like kings while we were there, but the thing I remember most (aside from their house being in the middle of a beautiful vineyard in Avignon) is after lunch one day, he just left the pot with the leftover soup on the stove. (Soup, again! No barley though.) “Oh, you forgot to put the soup away. Do you think it’s still good?” we said. Dean just shrugged and replied gently, so as not imply we were idiot germaphobic Americans for always putting any leftover food into the fridge immediately, that you don’t really need to refrigerate stuff like that, not if you’re going to reheat it and finish it in a day or two. Even now, whenever I have stovetop leftovers, I always just leave them out and think of Dean whenever I do.
I hope you find some peace, my friend.
January 18th, 2018 6:43pm
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George: “There’s just no justice. This experience has changed me! It’s made me more cynical, more bitter, more jaded!”
Jerry: “Really?”
George: “Sure, why not.”January 17th, 2018 8:39pm
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Susan Kare, famous graphic artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. (1980s)
wow
awesome.
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Happy new year! Here’s John Berkey’s cover art to the January 1, 1976 issue of Modern Medicine, along with the 1929 Norman Rockwell it’s playing on.
January 1st, 2018 8:26pm
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