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Albert Tomlinson - Wait For Me
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Postcard from Roberto Bolaño to Enrique Lihn, 1983
I’m a big fan of Roberto Bolaño. This is so cool!
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“Then she hurried off, bum lolloping, to make sure all was in order.”—
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Today in words I want to say and say and...
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Star Wars Poster Design - by Josef Ortiz
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rhamier because yolo
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Marlene Dietrich
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Herbert Ponting
[View from inside a curved ice grotto. Taylor and Wright stand at the entrance looking up. The ship ‘Terra...
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Leonard Cohen - Anyhow
Dreamed about you baby
You were wearing half your dress
I know you have to hate me
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21 posts tagged instant vintage
“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.” - Christiaan Huygens
hooked on old Feynman videos lately..
Clever and effortless, the work Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar did for Pepsi-Cola World marks the standard of late 50s/early 60s American kitsch.
“History is the shank of the social sciences.” - C. Wright Mills
“ Not many people remember it now, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was one of the leading pioneers of the early Internet age. It was the first newspaper on the Prodigy Internet service — one of America Online’s two main competitors back in the early 1990s — and within 90 days of launching its Access Atlanta service, it had twice as many online subscribers, 15,000, as any other newspaper in the country. Eight months after launch, Neil McManus wrote in the magazine Digital Media that all other newspapers interested in pursuing a digital strategy should visit Access Atlanta “with notebook in hand.”
But that was the apex. Prodigy’s membership stopped growing, crushed by the less staid and more freewheeling America Online, and within a year and a half the AJC was forced to end its association with Prodigy, turning to the web later than many other large newspapers. Because the company viewed the digital strategy as a supplement to the print product rather than an eventual replacement, the paper did not see the web as an impetus to change its print-based business model. In short order, the pioneers became also-rans.
Obviously, the Journal-Constitution bet on the wrong horse — and, in this case, the wrong technological platform, since after AOL drove Prodigy and Compuserve out of business, the World Wide Web rendered AOL’s proprietary service irrelevant. But it’s hard to fault the Journal-Constitution for failing to predict the future correctly. After all, nearly every newspaper failed in that. Even though the AJC guessed wrong on the answers, its management and editorial staff asked a lot of the right questions. And they placed a decent-sized bet on their guess.” continue reading | Nieman Journalism Lab
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
“ Despite the ever present claims that the music industry is on its knees, begging for mercy from the savage beast that is internet piracy, there is some respite in the news that vinyl sales rose by 39 percent in 2011.
While dance music’s biggest players continue to move away from the format, preferring to use CDJs or digital platforms like Traktor and lighten their record bag load, the increase in vinyl sales seems to be fuelled by the home consumer.
Media research agency, Nielsen Soundscan reported an increase in sales of the format from 2.8 million units in 2010 to 3.9 million units in 2011 and suggested the consumers desire for a tangible product as the driving factor.
In the last few years, more mainstream acts have begun to release on vinyl again meaning the formats resurgence has moved from a nostalgia fuelled hipster phenomenon to something with mass market appeal.”
[title:Djuna Barnes][image: Sam Cooke]
A brief, 13-point guide to the mysterious art of “Eye Flirtation.” The following list — variations of which circulated in a number of publications at the back-end of the 1800s — was printed in 1891 in the Taranaki Herald, a newspaper once published in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Image via the National Library of New Zealand.
Vintage science ads from the 1950’s - 1960s. More here
(via staceythinx)
In 1885, nineteen-year-old Wilson A. Bentley took his first successful photomicrograph of a snow crystal. He went on to capture over 5000 such images before he died on Dec. 23, 1931, after walking six miles in a blizzard.
