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Vintage Geological Maps Get Turned Into 3D Topographical WondersJanuary 18, 2019 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Maps, Design, Technology, College, New York City, History, United States, K-12, Jason Kottke, Lewis, Facebook Twitter, Clark, U S Geological Survey USGS, U S Geological Survey, Hoosier State 57 people like this. Like Teeth prove women helped produce 8th-century religious manuscriptsJanuary 11, 2019 at 12:13 PM  Tags: Art, Books, Gender, History, Afghanistan, Christianity, Innovation, Faith, Salzburg, Radini, Anita Radini, Fleck, Max Planck Institute, Ancient World, Badakshan, Alison Beach 65 people like this. Like Rare gemstone particles found in an 8th-century nun's mouth shatter a historical misconceptionJanuary 11, 2019 at 12:13 PM Tags: Art, Books, Gender, History, Afghanistan, Christianity, Innovation, Faith, Salzburg, Radini, Anita Radini, Fleck, Max Planck Institute, Ancient World, Badakshan, Alison Beach 119 people like this. Like Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy DemocracyJanuary 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, College, History, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Facebook Twitter, Russell, Wise, John Locke, Bertrand Russell, Healthy Democracy, Bertrand Russell Authority, J F Horrabin 54 people like this. Like When Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire Were Accused of Stealing the Mona Lisa (1911)January 9, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, College, France, History, Pablo Picasso, Hitler, Seoul, Huffington Post, Louvre, Mona Lisa, Picasso, Sara Boboltz, Facebook Twitter, Da Vinci 55 people like this. Like Public Domain Day Is Finally Here!: Copyrighted Works Have Entered the Public Domain Today for the First Time in 21 YearsJanuary 1, 2019 at 12:00 PM  Tags: Google, Art, Film, College, History, Creativity, Atlantic, Winston Churchill, Smithsonian, Literature, James Joyce, Walt Disney, Virginia Woolf, Harlem, First Time, Mickey Mouse 61 people like this. Like 10 Rules for Appreciating Art by Sister Wendy Beckett (RIP), the Nun Who Unexpectedly Popularized Art History on TVDecember 31, 2018 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Amazon, Art, Television, College, New York City, Religion, History, Bbc, Catholic Church, Francis Bacon, Bacon, Norfolk, Christ, Bill Moyers, Wendy 145 people like this. Like Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 YearsDecember 27, 2018 at 7:00 AM Tags: Google, Art, Film, College, History, Creativity, Atlantic, Winston Churchill, Smithsonian, Literature, James Joyce, Walt Disney, Virginia Woolf, Harlem, First Time, Mickey Mouse 96 people like this. Like Marc-Aurele Fortin’s Small-Town QuebecDecember 26, 2018 at 11:45 PM ~ Sticking (mostly) with the winter theme that I’ve been thinking about lately, Marc-Aurele Fortin is another artist in whose works winter figured prominently. Fortin was a contemporary of the Group of Seven painters and he focused on scenes of small-town Quebec, his native province, and the landscape of the surrounding St. Lawrence River Valley. […]Tags: Art, Landscape, Religion, Inspiration, Painting, History, Canada, Quebec, Countryside, Rural, Small Towns, Fortin, Marc Aurele Fortin, St Lawrence River Valley 29 people like this. Like Buckminster Fuller Documented His Life Every 15 Minutes, from 1920 Until 1983December 26, 2018 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Design, College, History, Chicago, Architecture, Seoul, Stanford University, Facebook Twitter, Elizabeth Kolbert, Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, Colin Marshall, Ted Mills, Kolbert, Dymaxion Car House 114 people like this. Like Guest Post Review: The DamDecember 23, 2018 at 2:00 PM Anastasia Gonis has been reviewing books for over twenty years. Her reviews and interviews have appeared in Bookseller & Publisher, Good Reading magazine, Australian Book Review, The Age, The Herald Sun, AllWrite, and many other publications. Anastasia currently writes both articles and reviews and is a revered reviewer for Kids’ Book … Continue reading Guest Post Review: The Dam
The post Guest Post Review: The Dam appeared first on The Boomerang Books Blog.Tags: Art, Books, Music, Environment, History, Nature, Social Issues, Conservation, Guest Post, Loss, Anastasia, Book Reviews - Childrens and Young Adult, New Book Releases, Children's Picture Books, Dimity Powell, David Almond 35 people like this. Like Powers Irish Whiskey’s Illustrious HeritageDecember 21, 2018 at 8:00 AM Tracing the history of the proudly Irish brand Powers Irish Whiskey is one of the most beloved whiskeys in the world. It’s also one of the most popular Irish whiskeys consumed by actual Irish people in Ireland. But a good whiskey is par for the course. The Irish people have fought for a very long time to keep Ireland whole and take great pride in …Tags: Design, Interviews, History, Ireland, Whiskey, Irish, Food + Drink, Powers, Irish whiskey, Illustrious Heritage 38 people like this. Like Discover Isotype, the 1920s Attempt to Create a Universal Language with Stylish Icons & Graphic DesignDecember 21, 2018 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, England, Design, College, History, Austria, Vienna, Atlantic, Holland, Gizmodo, Seoul, Cindy Sherman, Rotterdam, Facebook Twitter, U S Department of Transportation 72 people like this. Like A Visual History of Anchor Brewing’s Christmas BeerDecember 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM Dating back to 1975, Anchor Brewing’s Christmas Ale arrives in mid-November and disappears by early January every year. Though consistent in style, the recipes and labels change annually. Regarding the latter, artist Jim Stitt chooses a new seasonal tree to hand-draw. As for the former, the recipe shifts its spice profile. The beer is an exemplary display of craftsmanship and holiday spirit. Some even cellar the previous years’ …Tags: Design, Christmas, History, Beer, Labels, Linkaboutit, Anchor Brewing, Anchor Beer, Label Design, Jim Stitt 41 people like this. Like King of Egress: Lincoln Stretches 2019 Continental, Swaps Rear Doors for a Limited FewDecember 17, 2018 at 9:41 AM It’s true. You’ll soon be able to slap down a pile of hard-earned cash for a 2019 Lincoln Continental with suicide coach-style doors. Well, 80 of you will. To mark the 80th anniversary of the Continental nameplate, Lincoln Motor Company went the extra mile for heritage devotees, revealing a limited-edition model that dispenses with front-hinged […]
The post King of Egress: Lincoln Stretches 2019 Continental, Swaps Rear Doors for a Limited Few appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Design, History, Production, Heritage, Autos, Limited Edition, Lincoln, Continental, Lincoln Continental, News Blog, Lincoln Motor Company, Product Planning, Suicide Doors, 2019 Lincoln Continental 30 people like this. Like Do you ever wonder what paper clips looked like 150 years ago?December 14, 2018 at 4:20 PM  Tags: Deals, Design, Office, History, Microsoft Office, Stationery, Popular, Product Design, Clip Art, Paper Clip, Present & Correct 138 people like this. Like The Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanazawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 YearsDecember 13, 2018 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, College, History, Seoul, Facebook Twitter, Kanazawa, Hokusai, Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, Colin Marshall, 21st Century Los Angeles 86 people like this. Like Link About It: This Week’s PicksDecember 8, 2018 at 8:56 AM "Hearables," fungi, the history of both humanity and the bandana and so much more from the web Fungi’s Many Life-Changing Uses While there are 144,000 discovered species of fungi on the planet, there could be many more—millions more, in fact. But finding fungi and sorting out whether or not they contain any useful chemical compounds comes down to chance. The serendipity, scientists argue, is what …Tags: Wearables, Gender, Science, Design, Africa, Tech, Smartphones, History, Smartwatches, Sculpture, Fungi, Npr, Banksy, Archeology, Sexual Harassment, Linkaboutit 32 people like this. Like Extreme Body Modifications Through the AgesDecember 6, 2018 at 2:22 AM Body modification is found in all crevices of the world — even tattoos qualify!Tags: Art, Life, Society, Amazing, History, World, Bizarre, Gallery, Trending, Galley, Intriguing, Science & Nature 18 people like this. Like This 2.4-Million-Year-Old Discovery Alters Human HistoryDecember 4, 2018 at 3:00 PM The discovery of 2.4-million-year-old stone tools in north Africa have—yet again—altered the human origin story. “The evidence from Algeria has changed [our] earlier view regarding East Africa [as] being the cradle of humankind. Actually, the entire Africa was the cradle of humankind,” Mohamed Sahnouni, an archaeologist at Spain’s National Research Center for Human Evolution, says. Humanity’s distant cousin, the hominin, moved north through (and evolved and develop …Tags: Science, Design, Africa, Spain, History, Culture, Archaeology, Algeria, Archeology, Linkaboutit, North Africa, East Africa, Mohamed Sahnouni, National Research Center for Human Evolution 14 people like this. Like Anatomy of a Fake: Forgery Experts Reveal 5 Ways To Spot a Fake Painting by Jackson Pollock (or Any Other Artist)December 3, 2018 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Science, Technology, College, History, Chemistry, Taylor, Jackson Pollock, Facebook Twitter, Galileo, Pollock, Jeffrey Taylor, Ayun Halliday, Greg Kotis, Truth About Santa 96 people like this. Like An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in SwitzerlandNovember 28, 2018 at 12:14 PM What’s the sound of an exhibition devoted to silence? From John Cage recreations to the latest in interactive virtual reality tech, it turns out there’s a lot. The exhibition’s lead Jascha Dormann tells us more – and gives us a look inside.
The results are surprisingly poetic – like a surrealist listening playground on the topic of isolation.
“Sounds of Silence” opened this month at the Museum of Communication in Bern, Switzerland, and is on through July 2019. Just as John Cage’s revel...Tags: Art, Music, History, Museums, Silence, Switzerland, Stories, Exhibitions, Interactive, Sound, Stuttgart, Skye, Composition, Interaction-design, John-cage, Bern 29 people like this. Like Why American history lives between the cracksNovember 19, 2018 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Art, Books, Video, Poetry, America, History, United States, Innovation, Literature, Novel, Jwplatform.com 57 people like this. Like Ancient Bathroom Humor DiscoveredNovember 8, 2018 at 12:20 PM Uncovered this week in Turkey, inside what was once a Roman latrine, are a bunch of dirty jokes that date back to the second century. The two mosaics depict well-known Greek and Roman characters, Narcissus and Ganymede—only the scenes are a little different than the myths. In one, Narcissus is staring, obsessed with his penis; in the other, Ganymede (who was kidnapped by the eagle of Zeus) is …Tags: Science, Design, Turkey, History, Culture, Nsfw, Archaeology, Linkaboutit, Ancient Rome, Ganymede, Narcissus 3 people like this. Like Newfound Evidence Changes Chocolate’s HistoryNovember 5, 2018 at 7:25 AM The origins of chocolate, at least until last week, dated back about 3,500 years ago to civilizations in Mexico and Central America. But now, thanks to newfound evidence, cacao’s history actually begins 1,500 years earlier in South America. Tests run on the bowls, mortars and jars found in the highlands of Ecuador—in the area known as Santa Ana-La Florida—proved traces of cacao remained. This confirms a …Tags: Design, Mexico, History, South America, Chocolate, Ecuador, Central America, Cacao, Food + Drink, Linkaboutit, Santa Ana La Florida 48 people like this. Like Building the Toronto Subway: John DeRinzy’s ArtNovember 2, 2018 at 11:01 PM ~ Unless you were around when it was built (I wasn’t, by the way!), it’s difficult to imagine how massive an undertaking it was to build Toronto’s subway. Shortly before it’s opening in 1954, local artist John DeRinzy, who worked as a graphics designer for Simpson’s department store (later part of the Hudson’s Bay chain), […]Tags: Art, Subway, Religion, Inspiration, Toronto, Workers, History, Cities, Canada, Drawing, Vintage, Hudson, Bay, Ontario, Watercolor, Simpson 20 people like this. Like Inside an Upstate NY Witch CampNovember 1, 2018 at 1:02 PM Last weekend, at OlioHouse—an unassuming Victorian-style home in Wassaic—a sizable group of 20- and 30-somethings attended Witch Camp. There were no spells cast at the upstate New York location, but there were art classes, sage-burning, a Halloween-themed party and lectures on the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries. While witches today don’t face the same horrific repercussions as those in history, Tara Kenny (an Olio …Tags: Gender, Politics, New York, Design, History, Culture, Feminism, Magic, Witches, Linkaboutit, Upstate New York, Wassaic, Upstate NY Witch Camp, Tara Kenny 30 people like this. Like How to Interpret Traditions – 3 Easy Tips!November 1, 2018 at 9:00 AM It’s official—with our calendars now turned to November, it’s full-speed-ahead into the winter holiday season, a time marked by some of our most cherished traditions. For us Americans, this means a Thanksgiving full of great food, football, family, and friends—followed by the December holidays and capped off with the fireworks of New Years. We embrace our traditions, cherish them, and reminisce about them throughout the year.
If you were asked to create a museum exhibit about these traditions, h...Tags: Food, Themes, Family, Design, Exhibits, Winter, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Friends, Memory, Football, Christmas, Holiday, Turkey, History, Story The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three DecadesNovember 1, 2018 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, Books, College, History, Vienna, Getty, Seoul, Facebook Twitter, Ferdinand, Colin Marshall, 21st Century Los Angeles, Public Domain Review Related Content, Georg Bocskay, Rudolph II Ferdinand 131 people like this. Like Exploring the World of Vermouth With Martini & RossiOctober 31, 2018 at 8:00 AM We visit the botanical fields in Pessione to learn about the misunderstood, herbaceous libation Anyone who has enjoyed a martini, Manhattan, or a negroni already knows that one of the critical ingredients in their beloved cocktail is vermouth. And yet somehow, vermouth continues to be one of the least understood and least respected bottles in the bar. (First things first, your vermouth belongs in the refrigerator, not …Tags: Design, Milan, Alcohol, History, Farming, Drinking, Manhattan, Cocktails, Italian, Turin, Botanicals, Food + Drink, ROSSI, Vermouth, Pessione, Medicinal 22 people like this. Like |
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