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1927: Death to the Machines!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

     This program for the London premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927 includes a comparison, in parallel columns, of the novel and the screenplay, both of which were written by by Lang’s collaborator (and wife) Thea von Harbou. The … Continue reading →

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1914: The Workers Produce Everything!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The workers produce Everything! If you walk through the streets of a town or a city, and look around, Everything that you can see—Factories, Machinery, Houses, Railways, Tramways, Canals, Furniture, Clothing, Food and the very road or pavement you stand … Continue reading →

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1793: In Saddam Hussein’s Basement

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Title page of a volume from a multi-volume Talmud set published in Vienna in 1793 by Yozef Hroshontsḳi and recovered from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, in 2003. Tens of thousands of Jewish documents were … Continue reading →

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1920: Thomas Shields Clarke Leaves his Autochromes

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

    The Autochrome Lumière—patented in 1903 by the brothers Lumière in France and first marketed in 1907—was the first method of making color photographs, and quickly become popular among amateur photographers like Thomas Shields Clarke, an American painter and … Continue reading →

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1896: Stand True

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

TRADE-UNIONS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A TRADE-UNIONIST by John F. Sheehan I have been asked to defend trade-unionism. It is unnec­essary; trade-unions are their own defense: by the added comforts they bring into thousands of homes, through increased wages and … Continue reading →

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2012: Nefertiti in the Streets

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Graffiti in Cairo by El Zeft

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1819: Kahikona arrives in Hawai’i

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Beginning in the early part of the last millennium, Polynesians explored 16 million square miles of ocean by canoe, navigating by the stars, sun, clouds, ocean swells, and currents; they settled on every habitable island in the Pacific and likely … Continue reading →

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1965: Struggling from Darkness

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

If we approach the novel with one eye on the natural sciences today, we may say that it assembles its structure from…models of existence or reality in a manner that will hopefully be more true and more real than the … Continue reading →

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2012: Dipped

Posted on July 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Oliver Jeffers: Dipped Painting (2012) More: Also: Tragedy at Dawn (2012) (source)

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2011: The Black Square

Posted on July 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jakub Woynarowski: from the cycle Wunderkamera (2011)

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