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Sunday, September 19th, 2010

🦋 Suspension

posted evening of September 19th, 2010: 6 responses
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010

🦋 The Rock

Jorge López has been posting a lot of beautiful photography lately. Take a look at his latest:

"I'm writing you this card..."

Lots more at his blog.

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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

🦋 Public health advisory

At Pink Tentacle, a plethora of Japanese posters from the 1800's with public health themes. Above is a sign from the 1860's by Utagawa Yoshimori, showing what foods can safely be eaten by a measles patient. (Thanks for the link, SEK.)

(And cool, I just found out that the genre of woodcut printing of which these are examples is called ukiyo-e, which translates as "Pictures of the Floating World".)

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Sunday, August 29th, 2010

🦋 Trespass

Marc at the Wooster Collective announces a new collaborative book on urban art, Trespass: a History of Uncommissioned Urban Art. You can leaf through a sample of the book at Taschen.

Update: The launch party is Tuesday evening, September 28th, in Soho.

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Thursday, August 26th, 2010

🦋 Early Color

Some stunning shots of Russia and its people, from the first decade of the 20th Century, at boston.com's Big Picture. The photographer is Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii:

Prokudin-Gorskii riding on the Murmansk rail outside Petrozavodsk: 1910

The pictures were taken before the advent of color film, using three exposures through different filters -- this absolutely blows me away. The Library of Congress has more information about Prokudin-Gorskii's method.

(Also: Gizmodo has some of the very earliest color motion pictures, from 1922!)

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🦋 Big Bugs

pulex irritans: photo by Steve Gschmeissner

In today's Telegraph, a photo gallery of arthropoda at outlandish magnifications.

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Saturday, August 21st, 2010

🦋 Catnip

A magnificent look at some rescued big cats, from Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida.
Look at Alex's graceful power, the hugeness of his neck and jaw, his long sharp teeth! Donate to Big Cat Rescue to help them work against animal abuse.

posted morning of August 21st, 2010: 2 responses

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

🦋 Crocheted

This week's sensory overload from bright stupid confetti includes a feast of color by San Francisco artist Sarah Applebaum.

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Sunday, August 8th, 2010

🦋 The Border

Via bldgblog (thanks for the link, Doug!), two magnificent slideshows of David Taylor's photography from the border between the United States and Mexico.

posted morning of August 8th, 2010: 1 response

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

🦋 Translating

So we all think we don't want genre, we want to be anti-genre or perhaps hybrid, but since these are genres too, let us think about what it means to really go genreless. To go genreless in our contemporary publishing environment is to make a work without a ‘document map', without a diagram, without a blueprint. Without a sales category. A work such as this has no overview or topography. It can't be nicely summarized. It cannot be publicized, because it lacks ‘publicity'. In place of publicity it has secrecy, distortion, obscurity, waste. It is a waste product. Así pensamos todos que no queramos gnero, queremos ser contra-género, tal vez híbrido. Pero como esas también son géneros, consideramos qué significa él, actualmente sin género. Ser sin género en la industría editorial contemporanea es escribir una obra sin «mapa de documento» o programa, sin diagrama. Sin categoría de venta. Tal texto no tiene ningún descripción topográfica. Y no se puede buen reducir. No se publica porque la «publicidad» lo falta. En lugar de publicidad tiene silencio, deformación, oscuridad, desperdicio. Es basura.
Looking at Christopher Higgs' post today at bright stupid confetti led me along to this essay, "Problems after genre" by Jovelle McSweeney, and somehow hit on the idea of rendering it in Spanish. I wonder if this will improve my ability to speak and compose in Spanish. The first effort sounds a little strained, not such a natural tone. More of the essay below the fold.

posted evening of August 4th, 2010: 1 response
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