June 12, 2020
I've got a remedy for seasickness. It's a pocean.
In 1838, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reported that “the best treatment of sea-sickness” would be to place the patient with eyes covered in a hammock slung with long strings and on deck as near the center of the ship as possible. The article added that “if any palliative be given, it should be large doses of ammonia with opium.” It’s sound advice, minus the opium and ammonia.--The Rolling, Lurching, Vomit-Inducing Road to a Seasickness Cure
The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by side, which diminishes the magic (see here and here). There’s a whole generation who may have only seen the fold-ins in this format.
Of course I had to create the paper folding effect for the web.
[via mefi projects] Previously
Of course I had to create the paper folding effect for the web.
[via mefi projects] Previously
A lot of murder.
The Last of Us Part II Is Uncomfortable and Exhausting, But That's What Makes It Great [The Verge] “The Last of Us Part II is a sequel to the acclaimed PS3 game, which transformed developer Naughty Dog — then known primarily for lighter fare like the Uncharted series — into a studio able to tackle more serious and resonant stories. On the surface, the two games are similar. The original starred Joel, a haunted man who latches on to 14-year-old Ellie as a daughter figure, in a quest that sees them traverse a post-apocalyptic America in search of safety. It ends with him making a devastating choice to protect someone he cares about. The sequel is centered on Ellie, now 19 and settled in a relatively safe community in Wyoming. She has work, friends, a love interest. She struggles with Joel’s overprotective nature. Aside from the regular patrols to clear out infected monsters, it’s almost idyllic. But a few hours into the game — for reasons I won’t spoil — she sets off for Seattle with vengeance on her mind.” via: [Official Cinematic Trailer][Launch Trailer][Warning: trailers/reviews contain graphic descriptions of violence, murder, animal-abuse, & torture.] [*Discussion also contains spoilers*] [more inside]
What feeble nightbird of misfortune is this at my door?
Among the many lives lost to Covid-19 was that of Margaret Holloway[NYT], known around the Yale University campus as the Shakespeare Lady of New Haven. A short documentary about her from 2001, God didn’t give me a week’s notice, is available on Vimeo.
"The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest"
"Bicycle politics, the causes championed by cycling advocates and activists, are often dismissed by critics as esoteric or élitist. But transportation issues are social-justice issues... In fact, you could say that Black Lives Matter is a moral crusade about freedom of movement and who is at liberty to go where." [SLNewYorker on the role of bicycles for protesters and the regimes they challenge.]
I wonder what he has to say about "Famous Jewish Sports Legends".
What happens when a blogger with access to the full archives of "Boys' Life" decides to write a meticulous analysis of the "Nuns' Life" scene in Airplane!?
The answer is pulp artist [Wil] Hulsey...
Many readers have asked me "why do so many pulp covers feature women in ripped red blouses standing in swamps while a man fights off an unusual animal attack?" (Twitter thread, with many images of violence and objectified women) [more inside]
Looking for Carolina Maria de Jesus
For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world. - Tarisai Ngangura writes for Longreads. [more inside]
When you enter the water you enter the food chain
Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Bookforum): Sharks, Death, Surfers is a beautiful art object, petite and strange, replete with artist renderings of sharks that span the ages, from 750 BCE to the cover of Jaws. It is more a brief philosophical exploration of the intersection described in the title than anything else, unique in its take on the topics at hand but at times scattered and abstract. McCarthy is the chief obituary reviewer of the International Necronautical Society, a twenty-year-old organization whose goal is to “bring death out into the world.” It was in this role that she began to study obituaries of surfers, and thus the lives of sharks. [more inside]
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