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Parting the Veil of Faery:
The Colmore Fatagravures, said to date from the 1890s. "A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named
Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...' The device, which he called the Spectobarathrum, along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire. I believe some of these images and related artefacts may have survived."
[via Apothecary's Drawer]
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at 9:43 PM on June 19, 2007
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Grass rings,
lace rings,
rock rings,
bunny rings...
The Carrotbox has
month after
month of posts about
odd and unusual rings. Alice is
allergic to metal so focuses in her
own collection on "glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite and even stone — anything, as long as it's not metal!" She even provides a
timeline of
plastic history.
[via FunForever]
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at 5:54 PM on June 18, 2007
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An
informative, gossipy and surprisingly engaging 6-page exploration of the life of Charles Dickens, including his
up-and-down relationship with the U.S. press, his
inexcusable behavior during his messy and very public separation from his wife, the
"histrionic flair" of his performance career, and, of course, his works, including the one George Bernard Shaw called "a more seditious book than
Das Kapital." Lots of interesting images, too.
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at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2007
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Somewhere deep inside a fractal....
Bizarre, nonlogical, glitchy cartoons that are "
not ashamed of coming out of a computer." Satire? Or serious attempt to point animators away from "cushioned, balletic movements" and traditional stories, and towards "an aesthetic which adopts the native idiosyncrasies and flaws of the software in which it was born"?
(Note: the 'PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THESE CARTOONS IF YOU SUFFER FROM PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY' applies mainly to the flashing intros, forward through the first 25 seconds in each cartoon and there's other stuff.) [via]
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at 8:59 PM on March 1, 2007
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A
year-by-
year archive, from 1930 to the present, of every
poignant,
creepy,
tacky,
tragic,
goofy,
beautiful and, yes,
kinda slutty cover of the magazine that started out as
Astounding Stories of Super Science and became
Analog, with
lots of changes in between.
[via the horse's neck]
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at 11:23 PM on November 11, 2006
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