Monthly Archives: May 2006

2 years and 4 days

Saturday this blog completed two years of existence and I didn’t remember. I just stopped to think about it a few minutes ago and I don’t even remember what remind me of that. Am I having a serious problem of … Continue reading

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Penny Postcards

Penny Postcards: a nice collection of vintage American postcards, divided by State. These postcards cost 1¢ to mail. Postage was temporarily raised to 2¢ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I & from 2925 to … Continue reading

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Canada at Scale

Canada at Scale: Maps of our History. The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in our country: Aboriginal peoples, European colonial powers, Canadians, governments, private industry and academics all produced precious maps. Although some are less appealing … Continue reading

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Modern Pin-up

Modern Pin-up: pin-up pictures of French models by Virginie Notte. The photographer has a very nice portfolio, full of cool pictures, some NSFW. She has more interesting works at other part of his portfolio, at Modern Freaks, take a look … Continue reading

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The Pulp Canon: Lurid new covers for classic books

The Slate asked to a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Check the results here. Yes, you got me, I can’t resist to pulp book covers. As Slate says, … Continue reading

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Gopher Broke

Gopher Broke is a wonderful a very funny independent short film from Blur Studio, written and directed by Jeff Fowler. A hungry gopher hatches a clever plan to get a quick snack, but, as you can imagine, the things don’t … Continue reading

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Whitney Music Box

Whitney Music Box: a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “Digital Harmony”.The thirteen variations of the music box are the result of Whitney’s idea of harmonic relationships, based on audio, graphics and … Continue reading

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Le sang d’un poète

“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau. Le sang d’un poète (1930), aka The Blood of a Poet was the first film written and … Continue reading

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Turning the pages

The The British Library is doing an excellent work in a project called Turning the Pages™. Turning the Pages is the award-winning interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books while … Continue reading

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Airigami by Larry Moss

Airigami – The art of folding air in specially prepared latex balloon sculptures by Larry Moss. Vincent van Gogh used paint. Auguste Rodin worked in bronze. Larry Moss shapes air with the use of balloons. Ballons! Balloons are not the … Continue reading

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