A letter from Kurt to his father – transcript follows below. Transcript FROM: Pfo. K. Vonnegut, Jr., 12102964 U. S. Army. TO: Kurt Vonnegut, Williams Creek, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dear people: I’m told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than “missing in action.” Chances are that you also failed to receive [...]
Archives for November, 2009
A Graphic History of Magazine Income Over the Last Decade
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Trace the Steps of the Origin of Species
Above is a screenshot of a great website from Ben Fry, which traces the changes of text between the six editions of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species from 1859 to 1872. It’s a great starting point for visualizing the scope of Darwin’s work, and an excellent reference to further reading. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options [...]
The Four Horsemen
Performance by The Four Horsemen (bp Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, and Rafael Barreto-Rivera). You’ll like this, I hope: …and as long as we’re all getting inspired, here’s a link to another Four Horsemen piece that I first heard on CBC radio many years ago: Allegro 108. Link and Audio via PennSound. var addthis_language = [...]
Goldman Sachs’ Mascot
Goldmanicus Sachus Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Douchus Bagus) Suggested reading: Rolling Stone Magazine article “The Great American Bubble Machine” from this past July by Matt Taibbi HERE. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;
The Taj Mahal
A stray dog pauses on a sand bank of the Yamuna River as the sun is seen rising over the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The white-marble monument to love was built by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan between 1632 and 1654 for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The monument, a [...]
Ed Burtynsky on TED
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine — and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. Burtynsky’s photo Nickel Tailings #37, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996 Above: a video of a short talk by the artist introducing his work and ideas. var addthis_language [...]
Theatre of War & After the Fall
Above: a frame from the video THEATRE OF WAR, by Richard Mosse. Shot from the columned poolside terraces and French windows of Uday Hussein’s palace in the Jebel Makhoul mountain range in central Iraq. Mosse continues this vein of epic documentary photography in the exhibition The Fall (November 19 – December 23, 2009, at Jack [...]
John F. Kennedy & Other Presidents
John F. Kennedy is an accountant who lives in the Long Island town of Merrick with his wife and two children. He is 45 — born nine months after the assassination of the 35th President. The photo is by Patrick Witty, who is working on a portrait series featuring people with Presidential names, from George [...]
Urs Fischer at The New Museum
Top: A view from the New Museum on Sunday. Above: A detail of the third floor installation by Mr. Fischer. Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty is now up at the New Museum. The show has lots of dramatic moments, plays of scale and materials, but I was particularly drawn to the fantastically subtle work encompassing [...]
Grand Central Station, NYC
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New York City Marathon
I’ve been in New York for five years and have seen the marathon as many times. It’s a tremendous event, at different moments humorous, intense, heartening, and always vibrant with the spirit of determination. This year, I brought my camera along, and below are a handful of the photographs I took in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [...]
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