Archive for the ‘Oddments’ Category
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
In 2007, John Maloof ran across a storage locker at a thrift auction house that contained over 100,000 negatives of pictures. The photos spanned the years from the 1950s–1990s and were primarily urban scenes of Chicago and New York.
Maloof began posting the pictures on a blog and dug into the ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Ran across this delightful post from a used bookseller in Pennsylvania. He acquired the July 1922 edition of Flapper magazine and reproduced an uncredited article that listed phrases and jargon that, while probably quite cheeky at the time, seem quaint and amusing now. It's fun working out the chain of ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
I have lately been enjoying a blog by Austin, TX artist/writer Austin Kleon, and have been happily plundering his archives for posts on sketching, storytelling, art, and the like.
I was charmed by this post: Writing The Fibonacci Sonnet. It's a neat little writing trick that uses the Fibonacci numbers (1,1,2,3,5,8, ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
A Steve Martin song, performed with the Steep Canyon Rangers
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
My friend Hill, a denizen of the Humanities PhD wars, vouches for the accuracy of these first two animations. As for the Simpsons clips, well, why not?
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