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— Tom V (@Get_crazy78) February 28, 2016
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— Tom V (@Get_crazy78) February 28, 2016
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http://j.mp/1oJzfQE #scifi #art http://pic.twitter.com/ZzmQ4WG4Ug
— 70s Sci-Fi Art (@70sscifiart) February 29, 2016
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In the early days of companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t want by flooding our mailboxes with junk mail “spam” the seller’s goals were typically much simpler.
They weren’t necessarily trying to scam us out of our paychecks, they were just trying to get people to choose their company over the competition, and felt direct advertising was the ticket to success.
Junk mail “spammers” used the postmasters to help them pass along their “important messages” to people in town, in a time when most people were delighted to find
For a variety of reasons, the first junk mail (targeted mail, generic mail . . . take your pick) went to and through local postmasters. Small town postmasters knew anybody and everybody in town, knew their businesses, knew their interests, knew their foibles. Much such mail was addressed directly to the postmaster, asking him to pass it along to someone in town likely to be interested in the product.
Dick Sheaff posted an interesting historical article on Ephemera Society about how Junk Mail Is Nothing New, which includes a couple dozen endearing examples of what junk mail looked like in the olden days.
-Via Boing Boing
Hear Kurt Vonnegut Read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle & Other Novels http://j.mp/1oT3fKN http://pic.twitter.com/DjA0O4BAIs
— Open Culture (@openculture) February 29, 2016
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on: February 29, 2016 at 12:31PM
Re the LSE talk, here's the incredible Khmer modernist architect I mentioned – Vann Molyvann http://j.mp/1RzPjhD http://pic.twitter.com/4RlkWx2PzW
— Imaginary Cities (@Oniropolis) February 29, 2016
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on: February 29, 2016 at 09:30AM
Gorgeous decoration in this 15th cent Bibliothèque de Genève Book of Hours http://j.mp/1SccSiI http://pic.twitter.com/1f9xJvLRCA
— BibliOdyssey (@BibliOdyssey) February 29, 2016
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on: February 29, 2016 at 09:14AM
Asimov looks so annoyed at all the religion, science, and technology that keep nesting in his writing like moths. A… http://pic.twitter.com/XdN6ABNwOT
— 70s Sci-Fi Art (@70sscifiart) February 27, 2016
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on: February 26, 2016 at 10:01PM
Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, “Mosfilm” (2014) (© Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, all images courtesy Moscow Manege unless indicated otherwise)
MOSCOW — The kinds of memories that our museums and monuments trigger are never about remembering the past as much as they are about imagining the future. “The Fast and the Slow” (2012), a video work by Russian artist Shifra Kazhdan featured in Worker and Kolkoz Woman. Personal Case at the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, is set in a park in Moscow where sculptures have been abandoned after being removed from city squares since the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating an accidental museum-cum-theme park. In this surreal setting lies dormant the last radical utopia of the Western world, one that culminated in the death of millions in the Gulag. In the video, Kazhdan recalls a story from 1985 in which space researchers discovered a planet full of sculptures; with the help of a time machine they found out that these sculptures were the inhabitants of the planet, but were living at a different pace. Such tales of science fiction were the most popular official literature during the Soviet Union and a cultural phenomenon that enabled a whole imaginary of the future manifested in academic science, civil engineering projects, and the space program.
Slough off the Old Ew http://pic.twitter.com/my10YdM9Hd
— SophiaAlMaria (@SophiaAlMaria) February 26, 2016
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on: February 26, 2016 at 06:38PM
http://j.mp/1TbYpoo #scifi #art http://pic.twitter.com/FA0Pk9UL06
— 70s Sci-Fi Art (@70sscifiart) February 26, 2016
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