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1987: A Book Comes from the Sky
Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky (1987) is a 604-page volume in the style of the Song and Ming dynasties—but it contains no actual Chinese characters; instead, the symbols—4,000 of them—are “meaningless glyphs designed to resemble traditional Chinese characters.” … Continue reading
1970: A Crow Builds a Nest
I liked these descriptions of nests from Richard Headstrom’s Complete Field Guide to Nests in the United States (1970). The book contains a few photographs, but largely depends on written descriptions of nests for identification. The description of the crow’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Architecture, Birds, Crows, USA
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1907: It Rains in Ireland
Irish rain of the summer and autumn is a kind of damp poem. It is humid fragrance, and it has a way of stealing into your life which disarms anger. It is a soft, apologetic, modest kind of rain, as … Continue reading
2014: A Train Goes Somewhere
Animated gif by Julien Douvier; more here. This one isn’t dated; 2014 is my best guess.
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, Julien Douvier, Photography, Trains
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2016: Mind of My Mind
John Jude Palencar: Mind of My Mind (2016) (source)
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Tagged 21st Century, Afrofuturism, Art, John Jude Palencar, Painting, Science Fiction, Women
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2001: 300 Love Letters
“So I’m telling this boy, one of the boys that lots of these love letters are to, about this project. ‘I’m writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the … Continue reading
1862: Cotopaxi Erupts
Frederic Edwin Church: Cotopaxi (1862) Cotopaxi is one of the world’s highest volcanoes, located in the Andes Mountains about thirty miles south of Quito. It has erupted more then 50 times since 1738, the resulting lahars (mudflows) forming numerous valleys … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, American Civil War, Art, Cotopaxi, Edwin Church, Equador, Painting, Volcanoes
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1895: Melancholy
Magnus Enkell: Melancholie (1895) (source)
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, Finland, LGBTQ, Magnus Enkell, Melancholy, Mental Health, Mothers, Painting, Women
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1550: A Book Is a Heart
“The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III. Shown above is the … Continue reading
1845: Frederick Douglass Visits Ireland
Shortly after the 1845 publication of his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass left the US for a two-year tour of Ireland and Britain. During his time in Ireland, he befriended and appeared on … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Activism, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Daniel O'Connell, Frederick Douglass, Ireland, Slavery, USA
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