via flickr.comCheck out the flickr stream – there are a whole bunch of WW3 Propaganda posters.
Filed under: Art and Stuff, Vintage Stuff , modified, posters, propaganda, WW3
May 23, 2009 • 8:50 pm 2
Learn how to TYPE again!
I was a little sceptical in the beginning, but after playing around with this app for an extended period of time I have to admit that it is a great little app. Remember typewriters? Well, I do. And one thing I remember was: if you make a mistake, tough luck, my friend, it’s RE-TYPE TIME!. So, moving on to word editors on the computer was a blessing. Everything could be erased, the bliss of the DELETE button!
However, the grass is always greener on the other side. This is where Typewriter comes in, which is just that — the terror of the linear line! No deleting, no moving around, just writing. Which is horrible, because it rubbed my bad typing right in. But after you get over this, there is actually a benefit: totally unconfined stream-of-consciousness, which is incredibly freeing. Give it a whirl, it’s great!
Filed under: Blogging, Technology, Vintage Stuff , software, typewriter, writing
April 28, 2009 • 10:58 am 0
Brass and Ivory Pocket Notebook BP-966 at Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc.
April 27, 2009 • 5:11 pm 0
Today it’s all about death death death
It’s a blistering 75ºF outside and today we talk about death. Isn’t it funny sometimes how all of a sudden one topic comes to the forefront of your day? The first thing I found was this blog that had been started in conjuction with an exhibition of the Justice and Police Department Archives and the Historic Houses Trust. Sadly, it’s not very well maintained, but there are some haunting, surreal vintage crime scene photos on it {NSFW & not for the squeamish). You could take one picture and write an entire book about what happened.
The really amazing thing, however, are the vintage mugshots. They are intense! There are some more pictures and background info on TrAcEy’s blog. Apparently, those mugshots were taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. There are approximately 2500 of them and you can see a handful of them on the Historic Houses Trust’s searchable website. What strikes me about those portraits is how sharp and clear they are.
To round this up, we have Slate reviewing a book called Dissection, which is essentially a collection of, well, vintage photographs from the dissection room. Here’s a snip from the review:
This lost genre of photographs, Edmonson explains, dates roughly from 1880 to 1930. The images, which were taken at medical schools across the country, generally display groups of student dissectors posing with their cadavers. At times, the students—who are mostly male but occasionally female—are actively dissecting. Not surprisingly, many of the cadavers look less like human beings than pieces of meat. But in other images, especially those involving the skeletons that students used to help identify the bones and other landmarks in their cadavers, the dead are in unnatural positions, either by themselves or with students. A cadaver smokes a pipe; skeletons play cards; skeletons hug their dissectors; skeletons are even propped up to appear as though they are dissecting sleeping students.
Posted via web from Bearded Dave
UPDATE: Jessica Palmer wrote a great post on this topic on :bioephemera:, which is a blog I can only highly recommend for all you science aficionados out there. Great writing on art, anatomy, and science.
Filed under: Bizarre-O-Rama, Books, Documentary, History, Photography, Vintage Stuff , book, crime, death, dissection, intense, mugshots, Photography, vintage
April 26, 2009 • 5:26 pm 0
Nettle & Dandelion Beers [22.4.39. « THE ORWELL PRIZE]
[NEWSPAPER CUTTING]
IN THE KITCHEN
NETTLES HAVE THEIR USES
NETTLE, unwanted in the orchard or yard, can with great benefit be transferred to the kitchen, where they provide nature’s remedy for removing winter spots and blemishes from the skin.
AS A VEGETABLE
Choose only young nettles; these should be thoroughly washed, then boiled, strained and chopped like spinach. They are a good vegetable and excellent blood purifier.
NETTLE BEER
Thoroughly wash a peck of nettle tops and boil them with one ounce of bruised ginger in a gallon of water for half an hour. Cut up a lemon in slices and put in a big bowl with 1lb. Of brown sugar, and strain over them the gallon of water from the nettles. Stir well, and when the sugar is dissolved and the mixture of lukewarm add a cupful of barm and let it work for eight hours. Then skim and bottle.
DANDELION AND NETTLE BEER
Boil fresh nettle tops, 1oz. crushed ginger, 1oz. dandelion root, 2 sliced lemons and 1lb. of sugar in 1 gallon of water for 20 minutes. Strain into an earthenware bowl and when it is lukewarm add 1oz. of yeast on a square of toast and let it work for a few hours. Skim and bottle. It is ready to drink next day.
I have been subscribed to this blog for a while now and really like the idea. Essentially it posts each diary entry of George Orwell on the corresponding day. It’s kinda fun. Plus, he added a newspaper clipping on how to make nettle beer to this entry – this recipe *will* be tested!
Filed under: Feed Me Food, Vintage Stuff , beer, dandelion beer, George Orwell, recipe
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