Welcome to Old Time Radio
December 6th, 2008
Archive.org's massive collection of old time radio plays, one of the most obsolete forms of art.
Archive for the 'nostalgia' Category
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
December 6th, 2008
Exhaustive, loving, history of New York City subway signage, only incidentally about Helvetica.
In the Shadow of a Long Past, Patiently Awaiting the Future
December 6th, 2008
"We are used to these things. We are always here."
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
November 30th, 2008
I'll find a use for this pretty soon, I'll wager.
The spirit photographs of William Hope
November 30th, 2008
Spirit photography courtesy of the UK's National Media Museum.
In Twin Peaks
November 5th, 2008
"It's been nearly nineteen years since Lynch and crew descended upon the Snoqualmie Valley to shoot the pilot for Twin Peaks..."
Picturing the Museum
October 5th, 2008
The "Exhibition Preparation" section is, of course, particularly fascinating.
270 to Win
October 5th, 2008
Visual distribution of electoral votes for every single presidential election in US history.
Saul Bass on Titles
October 5th, 2008
More than a half hour of Bass discussing title design.
Richard Price and Junot Díaz on the Death of Times Square and Importance of Ghosts
October 1st, 2008
"We always talk about New York as a 'global city,' but I think we have too much of a two-dimensional view of where it begins and ends. The same way that millions of people flooded into the city—for the first time, in a very concrete and dynamic way, New York has sent colonies to other places."
Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse
September 16th, 2008
Lighthouse with its foundations underwater at high-tide. I read on shorpy that this house is still in operation today, and has been solar-powered for the past 25 years.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 - 1940
August 19th, 2008
"The...collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states....2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history."
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS
July 21st, 2008
Overwhelming collection of mp3s recorded from old 78s.
Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society
July 17th, 2008
Pre-Columbian audio anthropology.
Old old fashioned
July 3rd, 2008
"We can both get old fashioned / Do it like they did in '43"
Inventing the Internet
June 4th, 2008
How much does Larry Roberts look exactly like Ben Kingsley in Sneakers in this photo?
Museums wrestle with preserving art that’s not made to last
June 2nd, 2008
Sort of begs the question what is actually made to last? There's artwork in museums that's thousands of years old. And performance art, which can only be curated through means and materials other than the art itself (which then becomes the art itself?)
Browser Archive
May 9th, 2008
The best single resource online for finding usable legacy browsers, including standalone versions of Internet Explorer, which usually overwrites older versions upon installation.
Subjectivity And The Subjugated
April 16th, 2008
Short essay with accompanying photographs by Edward Curtis of Native Americans made up and costumed to look like Native Americans.
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
March 27th, 2008
"The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered."