via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
San Francisco City Hall circa 1919
“Peerless truck”
Three young ladies aboard what seems to be some sort of street-cleaning, finger-ripping machine. Hide your children and stand clear!
5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin
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The handmade tale
via Prospero by J.T. San Francisco
Commonplace reading matter may be increasingly reduced to pixels on a digital device, but the book as an art form still has its fans. In particular – as an antidote perhaps to the growing preponderance of technology – more and more people seem to consider handmade books worthy of conversation and collection. That is the message that will be delivered by CODEX 2015, a biennial four-day book fair and symposium that is about to take place [given the time lag between my reading something and passing it on to you this event will be long over] in the San Francisco Bay area. With the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, which caters to the antiquarian end of the market, happening in Oakland a couple of days earlier, this is prime time for collectors and curators to head to the west coast.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Meme as meme
The word “meme” was coined for ideas, songs, and religious ideals. Not LOL cats. Memes have never been more trivial – or more important… more
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Simpsons opening remade as genius 16-bit pixel animation
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
who asks: “Is it wrong to enjoy this more than the original?”
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How a Battery Works and 3 Ways You Can Ruin It
via MakeUseOf by Gavin Phillips
One of the most useful electronic devices available to us is also one of the most common. The modern battery is featured in so many of our favourite technologies that you could almost be forgiven for not spending time learning about their workings.
But the time has now come for you to expand your knowledge base by understanding just how the smartphone in your pocket is powered, what are the common battery varieties and what you can do to prolong their lifespan.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Philip Glass’s memoir
Philip Glass was born with the “I-don’t-care-what-you-think gene”. It’s been a gift, a license to experiment. It’s also led him astray… more
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This List of Exotic Teas From Around the World Will Amaze You
via Lifehack by Sy Ndes
For thousands of years the Eastern world has deemed tea a crucial part of their culture, believing that consuming tea would bring happiness, health and wisdom. Only recently though, has the West begun waking up to the great benefits of tea!
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Traffic in corpses and the commodification of burial in Georgian London
an article by Jeremy Boulton (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University) published in Continuity and Change Volume 29 Issue 02 (August 2014)
This is one of the journals that I read in the British Library just for the sheer fun of it (a girl has to have some relaxation) and this I thought was trivial enough to include in here!
Abstract
This article argues, using evidence from Georgian London, that historical demographers need to revisit the effects of two inter-related phenomena: the effects of burial fees on interment practices and the ebb and flow of a very considerable ‘traffic in corpses’. By the eighteenth century burial space in London was at a premium and there was an active market in the provision of suitable, and affordable, burial grounds. This article is based on the sextons’ books of the Westminster parish of St Martin in the Fields. These books are very unusual in recording exported ‘certificate’ and ‘arrears’ burials. The ‘traffic in corpses’ revealed by this source is analysed in some detail and burial fees turn out to be of great importance in understanding local fluctuations in interment practices. A neighbouring parish, St Anne, Soho, was acting as a veritable ‘clandestine burial centre’ which interred non-parishioners for profit on a huge scale for most of the eighteenth century. The ‘commodification’ of burial, driven partly by considerations of cost, thus had a major impact on interment practices in the eighteenth-century metropolis. A key finding is that, due to this postmortem flow of corpses, the total number of recorded burials in any one parish may not necessarily have been driven by fluctuations in local mortality rates.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
On Joseph Mitchell
Few journalists have gone as far as Joseph Mitchell in bending reality to his artistic will. This is not because they are more virtuous; it is because they are less gifted… more
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Ritual as an Urban Design Problem
via 3 Quarks Daily by Sarah Perry at Front Porch Republic
The Benedictine monk Aidan Kavanagh, who straddled two worlds as both a monk and a Yale divinity professor, proposes that we understand the Church as originally and centrally an urban phenomenon. He translates civitas as “workshop” and “playground,” the space in which social, philosophical, and even scientific questions are worked out by humans in contact with their God, “the locale of human endeavor par excellence.”
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