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Category Archives: USA
Flawed Symmetry of Prediction
Artist/photographer Jeff Frost shot over 40,000 high resolution still images with a DSLR camera for this mindblowing film. Frost roamed the deserts of Utah and California searching for abandoned buildings with just the right decoration. No CGI effects were used … Continue reading
Axonometric and Not
Posted in Asia, Europe, Maps, USA
Tagged Axonometric, Central Park, Ginza, Istambul, London, Maps, New York City, Rome, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Turkey
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In March, Read Books You’ve Always Meant To Read
In 1935, President Roosevelt initiated the Works Progress Administration to both create jobs and to encourage community spirit. The much respected New Deal agency recruited millions of Americans from all walks of life and launched thousands of valuable public service … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Franklin D. Roosevelt, Works Progress Administration, WPA
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Mapping Moby Dick
The Voyage of the Pequod is one in a marvelous series of twelve literary maps based on American and British classics produced by the Harris-Seybold Company of Cleveland, Ohio between 1953 and 1964. The Map of Moby Dick was created … Continue reading
NYC: The Water Tank Project
An impressive roster of New York City artists have signed-on to participate in a consciousness-raising project dubbed The Water Tank Project. Designed to draw public attention to the urgent need for water conservation and the myriad threats to the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, USA
Tagged Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Rio de Janeiro
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Found Libraries
Even though there are still more than 13,000 public payphones on New York City sidewalks, they are seen by most residents as dead technology, if they are noticed at all. But NY architect and civil society activist John Locke, the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Libraries, USA
Tagged New York, New York City, Payphone
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Lincoln in Books
The brand new Center for Education and Leadership at Washington DC’s Ford’s Theater Museum sports a ten meter-tall tower of 6,800 books all about President Abraham Lincoln. The books are all histories or biographies about the 16th President, along with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
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What’s a Rare Bookman
The exhibition “Ray Safford, Rare Bookman,” which opened yesterday at the Grolier Club, New York City, offers a look into the famed New York firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons and the literary, publishing, and rare book worlds in turn-of-the-century New York. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Edward W. Bok, Grolier Club, Lewis Carroll, New York City, Rudyard Kipling, Uncle Remus
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Photographers: Know Your Rights
Actor/activist Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the Gregory Brothers and the ACLU have produced an entertaining and informative little video , with the assistance of the animated ghost of Benjamin Franklin, to inform photographers about their legal rights. This timely film applies to … Continue reading
