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Pretty Pictures

Images I have found striking over the years.

READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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Saturday, May 26th, 2012

🦋 Wide open spaces

The Daily Mail publishes a stunning gallery of photos of the undeveloped American West, taken on surveying expeditions in the late 19th Century.

(via cleek)

posted morning of May 26th, 2012: Respond

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

🦋 Hmm...

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers

(via Henry)

posted afternoon of May 20th, 2012: 2 responses
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012

🦋 Purple and Orange

Courtesy of Ellen's green thumb:

posted afternoon of May 19th, 2012: 1 response
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012

🦋 Moving patterns

Click through for more. via the House of Substance.

posted morning of May 6th, 2012: Respond

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

🦋 Greens and amber

I got a nice, impressionistic photo in the course of this morning's bike ride (up to West Orange, down to Millburn, up through the Reservation and meet Ellen on top of South Mountain) -- a street light on South Orange Ave. under the cloudy sky.

posted morning of May 5th, 2012: Respond
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Saturday, April 21st, 2012

🦋 The lie that helps us see the truth

Edward O. Wilson's article for Harvard Magazine on the biological origins of the arts includes the startling insight that metaphor can be seen as a way of compensating for the limited range of human senses. (Thanks for the link, Joe!)

posted morning of April 21st, 2012: Respond

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

🦋 Lakes of Titan

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Sylvia researching her science class paper, I give you the lakes of Titan:

posted evening of April 17th, 2012: Respond
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012

🦋 Martha Takes Times Square

Everybody needs to go look at Martha's splendid images -- they're on display over at Artists Wanted -- you can click a button to collect the Appalachian murder ballads and lakes of fire she paints, and help the images win a trip to Times Square, to the big screens!

posted afternoon of April 15th, 2012: Respond

🦋 Flores preciosas

Jorge LÃ³pez captures a moment in September:

posted morning of April 15th, 2012: Respond

Friday, March 30th, 2012

🦋 I can't stop cracking up, every time I hear myself say

"This is an old tune called The Red-Haired Boy".

Playing fiddle and putting together a slide show with some of ragebunny's designs. This tune seems almost infinitely pliable!

Update -- you can hear the whole gory thing here.

posted evening of March 30th, 2012: 5 responses
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What's of interest:

➪	At Haquelebac, John has some follow-up questions to ask the annotators of Lolita. Sure they are pedantic, but â€˜Nabokovists are supposed to be pedantic.â€™ (John gets some undeserved shit in comments.)
➪	On National Geographic's Ancient X-Files, Nick Pelling works on unraveling the cryptic skein of the Voynich Manuscript. (via The New Post-Literate)
➪	In a forward-looking article for Ladies Home Journal, Anne Shaw Faulkner (head of the Music Department at the General Federation of Women's Clubs) examines evidence that "those under the demoralizing influence of the persistent use of syncopation, combined with inharmonic partial tones, are actually incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, right and wrong." (Thanks for the link, Peter!)

(Other links of interest at my Google+ page. It's recommend ed!)

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