Toy stories: Peter Rabbit and friends
via The National Archives blog by Julie Halls
Peter Rabbit has been in the headlines in the past few weeks with the publication of Emma Thompson’s book The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit and an exhibition in Glasgow marking his 110th anniversary. His exploits in the great outdoors are well-known, but the notorious carrot thief and scourge of Mr McGregor’s garden, who finds himself in Scotland in his new adventure, also has a more sedate existence among the shelves at The National Archives.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
What about Katie Roiphe so annoys people? There’s her contrarianism, her controversialism, her solipsism. But give her this: She’s not boring... more
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Buffalo: 1905
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Buffalo, New York, circa 1905
“Looking up Main Street. Steamer North Land at Long Wharf”
8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
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Podcast: Philip Henslowe, Edward Alleyn and the invention of London theatre in the age of Shakespeare
via Peter Scott’s Library Blog
The actor Edward Alleyn and his father-in-law Philip Henslowe built and expanded several London public playhouses, including the Rose, the Fortune, and the Hope.
Named by King James VI and I as Joint “Masters of the Royal Game of Bears, Bulls and Mastiff Dogs”, Henslowe and Alleyn also staged such blood sports as bull- and bear- and lion-baiting at the Bear Garden and other venues, including royal palaces. They also commissioned plays and ran acting companies. Most of what modern scholars know about the early modern English theatre, both as financial enterprise and artistic endeavour, comes from the study of the Henslowe and Alleyn manuscripts at Dulwich College.
This podcast looks at documents from the archive, now digitised at www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk, to demonstrate how the two men helped to invent “Shakespearean” theatre.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Parody gets bad press. It’s mistaken for pastiche; F.R. Leavis thought it “demeaned” those lampooned. But at its best, parody is literary criticism... more
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What every camel wants: that fresh-from-the salon look
via The National - News
If Sarab the camel looks particularly relaxed and content, there is a reason for that. After a skin cleanse and shampoo with a pine-scented grooming product designed especially for you, what camel wouldn’t feel pampered?
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Crowdfunding a 10-year-old’s cup design for her grandad, who’s got Parkinson’s; and her dad, who is a klutz
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Lily is a ten year old girl who’s into pottery. Her grandpa has Parkinson’s disease and is prone to spilling his coffee due to his tremors, and so she invented the “Kangaroo Cup”, a stackable, reusable cup that is hard to knock over or spill from (she modified it for her dad’s use, so that he wouldn't spill coffee in his keyboard any more, too). It’s got a inward-curving lip to make it less spill-prone when you carry it, and its legs make it super-stable (you also don’t need a coaster for it).
Lily’s dad is a product designer who’s brought other products to market successfully, so he and his daughter are raising funds on IndieGoGo for bulk manufacture (in JingDeZhen, China) and sale.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Economics is a discipline in denial, says Howard Davies. Flawed models remain in fashion; economists no longer even try to explain the world as it is... more
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Stone tools with plastic handles
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Israeli designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow presented their modern stone and flint tools at the Budapest Design Week. The pair combined hand-chipped blades and axes with modern high-impact plastic handles, to make tools that are beautiful and functional. I’d love to have one of those knives around the office. Designboom has more pics, and commentary:
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Autumn: Spaghetti-harvest time
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Some astute commenters in the Ukelele String Harvest video thread pointed out that this recent video is basically a re-creation/riff on this earlier, classic weird video, from a 1957 BBC show called Panorama. From the Alexandra Palace Television Society [link http://www.apts.org.uk/ does not go to the story as published on Boing Boing], here’s the whole story:
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