Archive for the 'collection' Category
"Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore."
Liu Bolin…The Invisible Man…
October 7th, 2009
Hubble: The Man, the Telescope
September 17th, 2009
Photo gallery of Edwin Hubble, the Hubble telescope in development, after being launched, and being maintained.
Jules Vernacular
September 11th, 2009
Every one of these is incredible.
Einstein Tomb
September 9th, 2009
but does it float x geoff manaugh
Sound in the Sea
September 8th, 2009
A sample set of deep sea audio.
The Moon Trees
August 21st, 2009
List of trees planted from seeds taken aboard Apollo 14.
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
July 14th, 2009
NYTimes slideshow of moon landing photos by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Also notable for having a tip-top slideshow player.
John Fahey
July 2nd, 2009
Experimental etc. collects a massive number of Fahey albums.
Awful Library Books
July 1st, 2009
Hilarious.
We Love Typography
June 29th, 2009
Collaborative graphic collection of found type and design snippets.
Josef van Wissem at Ubu Web
June 29th, 2009
"Jozef Van Wissem's favorite compositional device is the palindrome. The Dutch-born, Brooklyn-based lutenist plays pieces forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. Although this strategy is rooted in 17th century compositional practice, it still serves his agenda of rescuing his archaic instrument from history's dustbin."
Atlas Obscura
June 16th, 2009
NYC Grid
April 30th, 2009
Photoblog documenting New York City block by block. Most recent entry is about the block I work on. He shot the lightpole I lock my bike to!
Human landscapes from above
April 30th, 2009
Jason Hawkes is the (a?) new Georg Gerster. Actually, maybe Google Maps is the new Georg Gerster.
historic fonts
April 19th, 2009
"Scanned from hallfplate glass negatives found in anabandoned Post Ofice warehouse, the envelopes bear the stamp 'London Press Bureau'.
The photos were taken in the mid sixties."
modern-alphabets
April 19th, 2009
"Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain" - 1864
Mythical Places
April 19th, 2009
Seems like there should be more of these, but this is a collection of I think most of the pre-renaissance mythical locations that were actually theorized to exist. The list changes as we get into the renaissance, I think - as the age of exploration begins and some of these disappear but new ones get added.
Derek Jarman on UbuWeb
April 17th, 2009
"Highly personal, poetic and affecting, Jarman's Super-8 works fall roughly into two, overlapping categories: documents of his immediate environment and imaginative experiments in film-making that sought to express emotion through image rather than acting."
DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE
April 6th, 2009
"The father of camouflage, Abbott Thayer described animal coloration as a way to conceal or disrupt an object. Dazzle is disruptive (think of a zebra)."
