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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Nick Carr is Scouting New York for locations; today he happened on what is surely the city's trippiest elevator, in an old warehouse in Queens. Click through for the extraordinary inside view. Thanks for the link, James!
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Some exquisite images of dinosaur feathers and proto-feathers in this Discovery article about a newly found trove of amber deposits from Grassy Lake, Alberta.
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
NPR's Robert Krulwich takes a look at the ordered art of Ursus Wehrli. More photos, and making-of videos, at Wehrli's home page. (Thanks for the link, Jeff!)
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
Es que la tarea, la tarea del arte es esa, es transformar, digamos, lo que nos ocurre
continuamente, transformar todo eso en sÃmbolos, transformarlo en música, transformarlo en
algo que pueda perdurar en la memoria de los hombres. Es nuestro deber ese, tenemos que
cumplir con él, si no nos sentimos muy desdichados.
--Entrevista a Borges
Ian Ruschel composes a tribute, Buenos Aires: Las Calles de Borges -- via Open Culture, which has a number of intriguing-looking Borges links. (Thanks for the link, Lep!)
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
 photo by Anton Kusters I’m in the front seat, riding with Soichiro in his car on his way to Shinjuku. “One cuts off one’s finger to make a pointâ€, Soichiro explains while driving. “Usually to show the sincerity of an apology after doing something wrong.â€
“You cut off a single digit of your own finger in a ceremonial way, while facing your boss, and then you present the severed finger on a folded napkin to him. It reinforces the power of your apology. It shows that you’re serious about what you’re saying.â€
Somehow, i don’t feel like questioning that.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Oh what a fantastic idea:
From Micaël Reynaud. Van Gogh, Renoir, Cézanne, Segal, Henriquez, Desrosier, Macke, Sorolla, Von Motesiczky, Merritt Chase, Van Doesburg, Matisse, Van Dongen, Camoin.
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Okay, not much to link these together really, other than that both are taken in Poland and both are very striking visually. Here is a couple kissing at the Woodstock music festival in Kostrzyn nad OdrÄ… -- where the mud is an intentional part of the concert experience rather than a by-product of rain: The photo is from Peter Bohler's Come on, feel the mud feature for the New York Times website.And here is the Krzywy Domek -- "Crooked House" -- in Sopot: The picture of Krzywy Domek is one of 50 Strange Buildings shared by Google+ user Ajal Shan. It inspired me to (a) think of Heinlein's story And he built a crooked house; (b) think of the nursery rhyme about the crooked man; (c) look up the Polish translation of that poem, which would appear to be:
Był krzywy człowiek i szedł krzywą dróżką.
Znalazł krzywy grosik za krzywą obórką.
Złapał krzywą myszkę i nosił ją w worku,
i wszyscy mieszkali razem w krzywym dworku.
(This is based only on seeing it at blogger Kim Dzong Il's site, I can't vouch for its accuracy. The back-translation from Google is close enough to be plausible.)
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Franklin Einspruch of The Hooded Utilitarian brings to our attention the abstract expressionist work of Walter Darby Bannard and in particular, his riffs on George Herriman's comix.
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Monday, July 4th, 2011
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Dear Photograph is dedicated to finding new photographs of old photographs, in the scene of the old photograph -- it's a beautiful form, it reminds me of Sergei Larenkov's Leningrad project. The site is only a couple of weeks old but they've already got some great pictures. Thanks for the link, Matt!
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