Archive for the 'nostalgia' Category
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?)
The best single resource online for finding usable legacy browsers, including standalone versions of Internet Explorer, which usually overwrites older versions upon installation.
Short essay with accompanying photographs by Edward Curtis of Native Americans made up and costumed to look like Native Americans.
"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."
Yes. Yes and yes. I can confirm that these records also work very well in the context of winter in suburban and post-industrial adolescent Massachusetts. Just want to add that the title track on Star above the Manger is maybe one of the best songs of all.
Some really nice type, in a really irritating interface. Some of these are apparently downloadable as pdfs.
Part of Proteus Gowanus; good (low-res) collection of weirdo imagery.
Hilarious archive of science-based songs, including the original of TMBG's "Why does the sun shine?"
Exhaustive, and exhausting. I should go through these and try to figure out how many of them I have.
I don't know that much about Weegee, but I obviously know of him, and the first few pages of this archive have some fantastic photography.
Nice interactive timeline of the history of the major browsers.
Explanation and examples of a number of early photographic developing and presentation techniques.
Audit of 1989's (consumer) vision of 2007. Actually sort of a lot of this stuff has hit the market.
How come none of these appear in Tufte's books?
History sure bunches up near the present.
By all rights I should be linking to the linked-to City of Sound entry, but the most compelling part of it was this photo, effectively a synecdoche for all (documentary) photography. Just stunning.
Another image along the same lines as the previous one, this time from an exhibition at the Met.
Part of the Foto exhibition currently up at the Guggenheim. I was a little overwhelmed and disappointed by the Richard Prince retrospective, but I'm tempted to say that this photo might have been worth the price of admission. update: someone ganked it for their flickr - there's a
nice big version here.
