Archive for the 'collection' Category

A sample set of deep sea audio.

List of trees planted from seeds taken aboard Apollo 14.

NYTimes slideshow of moon landing photos by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Also notable for having a tip-top slideshow player.

Experimental etc. collects a massive number of Fahey albums.

Hilarious.

Collaborative graphic collection of found type and design snippets.

"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."

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!

Jason Hawkes is the (a?) new Georg Gerster. Actually, maybe Google Maps is the new Georg Gerster.

"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."

"Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain" - 1864

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.

"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."

"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)."

They went to Iceland's Phallological Museum, which was like first on our list when we went there till we discovered that it's way the hell outside of Reykjavik. These photos are almost like being there!

Contemporary usage blog on the New York Times.

Survey of lettering from Brooklyn.

One-stop shopping for open source type, suitable for @use in css3.

Nice collection of book covers. Especially like Everymans Guide to Polystyrene Plastics and The Motor Car(s).