U.S. attacked, 1937; defense #architecture. http://j.mp/1RDqVKR http://pic.twitter.com/Fs8acOkrNi
— JF Ptak (@ptak) October 30, 2015
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on: October 30, 2015 at 01:28AM
U.S. attacked, 1937; defense #architecture. http://j.mp/1RDqVKR http://pic.twitter.com/Fs8acOkrNi
— JF Ptak (@ptak) October 30, 2015
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on: October 30, 2015 at 01:28AM
Nintendo of Russia drew this ultra-cool painting at the center of Moscow
http://j.mp/1v6WKiR
Submitted October 27, 2014 at 02:20PM by edkisin
via reddit http://j.mp/1wEWI7y
Beacon Hill back alley. http://pic.twitter.com/KfL1LJJcqf
— DANIEL MACDONALD (@danielmacdonald) October 29, 2015
from http://twitter.com/danielmacdonald
on: October 29, 2015 at 11:52AM
Was it really Jan van Eyck and not J.C. Maxwell who produced the first color photograph? Van Eyck’s after all is hanging up in Bruges in the Groeninge Museum, and Maxwell’s, well, Maxwell’s dissipated in about half an hour, leaving only an historical trace. The problem of course is that Van Eyck’s oil (“Virgin of the Canon van der Paele”) was done 403 years before the Daguerre invention (building of course on the work of others, notably Niepce, his former partner), so it really doesn’t count because it really doesn’t exist. His work though *does* exist, but not as a photo—it was, is, a painting, finished in 1436, and it stands in my mind as looking so much like a perfect capturing of a moment that it seems a (luscious) snapshot.
JF Ptak Science Books Post 2564
I posted this thinking that I had never heard the sound of a gas warning siren–or any other noise-making instrument–signifying the onset of a poison gas attack during WWI. So I went poking around the web, looking for an audio recording of one. I did find contemporary audio of an antique instrument–this was a dreadful sound, sounding somewhat like a high-pitched pulse-jet engine. It is an awful sound (linked below) though I am sure that it did its job very effectively.
I haven’t yet found a contemporary recording, though I’ve got a notion that if no audio recording was made for training films and such that they may exist in movies.
Apparent second confirmation that mass surveillance leads to unauthorized travel. http://pic.twitter.com/O6LZsoKTjD
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 28, 2015
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on: October 28, 2015 at 03:41PM
#geohalloween caricature of comet that supposedly should destroy earth June 13, 1857 http://pic.twitter.com/nFbHnNUT8X
— David Bressan (@David_Bressan) October 28, 2015
from http://twitter.com/David_Bressan
on: October 28, 2015 at 02:53PM
Moebius’ Storyboards & Concept Art for Jodorowsky’s Dune http://j.mp/1O7c2D2 http://pic.twitter.com/zDPGNgdkXZ
— Open Culture (@openculture) October 27, 2015
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on: October 27, 2015 at 06:21PM
A preview of my talk on Thursday about the "Science Chamber of Horrors." http://pic.twitter.com/tl04veliJP
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) October 27, 2015
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on: October 27, 2015 at 02:41PM
'Communitas' (1947) by Percival & Paul Goodman http://j.mp/1WfuCwZ http://pic.twitter.com/W21Conz17S
— Imaginary Cities (@Oniropolis) October 27, 2015
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on: October 27, 2015 at 10:23AM