via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Boston circa 1920
“Marble contest on Boston Common”
With a sizable gallery, considering the sport
4x5 glass negative, photographer unknown
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Avarice in the late French Renaissance
via OUP Blog by Jonathan Patterson
Greed (avarice, avaritia) has never gone out of fashion. In every age, we find no shortage of candidates for the unenviable epithet, “avaricious.” Nowadays, investment bankers and tax-dodging multinationals head the list. In the past, money-lenders, tax collectors, and lawyers were routinely denounced, although there was a strong feeling that any person, male or female, could succumb to avarice if they did not take the appropriate moral precautions.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Paradox of necktie
“Couldn’t we say that a tie is really a symbolic displacement of the penis, only an intellectualized penis dangling not from one’s crotch but from one’s head”?… more
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Profile of a rock balancing artist who lives and works on the beach
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
Everything Happen for a Reason from rossangeles on Vimeo.
"I just need rocks. It's all what I need." Manuel Cisneros is an artist working and living on the beach in Ventura California. Video By Ross Harris.
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SALt – the eco lamp that runs off sea water and charges your phone
via Red Ferret by Nigel
It’s a sad fact that too much of the world still has to live without electricity for basic needs, which is incredible in an age when we’re sending probes to Mars, but what do you do? Well one enterprising eco-activist has set up a small company to manufacture home lamps called SALt which run off salt and water, or just plain old sea water.
It may be basic chemistry class stuff, creating that old electrolytic reaction out of the salt and water, but it’s still good to see someone trying to make a lamp which doesn’t need expensive kerosene, and which can last for a decent length of time.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
On August Strindberg
Did August Strindberg, the alchemist and paranoid, cross into insanity when writing The Defense of a Madman? He himself had no idea… more
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Beautiful Vintage Annuals for Children
via AbeBooks.co.uk
1950, definitely in my era although cinema club was not allowed by my snob of a mother!
In the late 1800s, children's stories were published in periodicals and distributed weekly or monthly to readers. To further capitalise on their market, publishing houses put together annuals filled with the best stories, illustrations and games from the year. The book was released for Christmas, and marketed as the perfect gift (both entertaining and educational) for children. The annuals were generally distributed in Britain and its colonies such as Canada and Australia, although sometimes also in the United States.
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Welcome to the Swiss film industry
via Prospero by J.W.
The dedicated watcher of the international movie scene may find that “Solothurn” does not roll off the tongue in the way that, say, “Toronto” or “Sundance” or “Berlin” does. But this pretty Swiss town has just held its 50th festival of feature and short films, along with a plethora of documentaries. Indeed, it was a documentary about a martial-arts programme in Marseille, “Spartiates”, that won the Prix de Soleure awarded to the year’s best film. Its maker, Geneva-born Nicolas Wadimoff, and his producers are now 60,000 Swiss francs ($65,000) richer.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
New Age and technology
Max Weber considered rationalism a distinguishing features of modernity. Yet the spirit has always been in revolt against the intellect… more
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
via 3 Quarks Daily by Suzanne Berne at the New York Times
Part of a biographer’s job is to rescue forgotten figures, and in “Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary” Anita Anand has salvaged an extraordinary one. Sophia Duleep Singh was a Punjabi princess and Queen Victoria’s goddaughter, a bucktoothed “docile little thing” who went on to become a celebrated London fashion plate and then a steely suffragist.
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