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The Depression in color  I absolutely love this collection of photos, taken by the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information between 1939 and 1943. The shots taken prior to 1941, especially, are incredibly jarring—familiar images of poverty stricken farm families straight from your high school history textbook, suddenly rendered "real" and emotionally resonant by the addition of color film. I'm very [..] |
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Psychedelics to treat depression  Maybe LSD in the water supply would be a good thing! New research published this week in the scientific journals Nature Reviews Neuroscience and Science suggest (once again) that psychedelic drugs have potential as a treatment for depression. Neuroscientists from the Yale University School of Medicine conducted a study where they gave rats small amounts of the powerful dissociative anesthetic keta [..] |
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| American origami from the early Depression This December 1929 Modern Mechanix article on paper folding fun must have really enlivened the early months of the Great Depression; I imagine average people sitting on upturned apple crates, doing this religion-tinted American origami with worthless stock-shares. Among paper conjuring tricks, perhaps the most amusing is the "Passport" effect. Briefly, the thing is this: The performer takes an obl [..] |
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| Lynd Ward's wordless, Depression-era woodcut novels Library of America has announced a slipcased two-volume set collecting Lynd Ward's gorgeous, Depression-era woodcut "novels" -- wordless, book-length stories told in stark imagery. The set is edited by Art Spiegelman, and LoA has a short interview (PDF) with Spiegelman on Ward's work. See LoA's Lynd Ward page for more info on the books (with visuals) or pre-order a copy at Amazon. Lynd Ward: Six N [..] |
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| Weird Signs, Part 6 "QUANTUM SHOT" #249linkREAD PREVIOUS PARTS HEREFollow these signs and become monumentally los [..] |
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| Alto, Read All Signs Copyright © 2008 Rudy A. Girón. Visit the original article at http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2008/10/25/alto-read-all-signs/.
Some businesses just feel the need to have a sign hanging for every one of their services.
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| Weird Signs, Part 9 "QUANTUM SHOT" #368linkSee previous parts here.(Most Ineffective) Warning S [..] |
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| Weird Signs, Part 5 "QUANTUM SHOT" #198Where do you want to go today? With signs like these, you might not get there.Thanks to your contributions, here is another installment in this highly popular series. Some definitely confusing, some plain weird, others highly suspicious signs, found fr [..] |
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| King Philip IV signs autographs at The Met The merry pranksters at Improv Everywhere brought King Philip IV to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art to sign autographs beside his portrait, painted by Velázquez circa 1624. Improv Everywhere: King Philip IV...
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| Collecting beggars' handmade signs Michael Zinman collects signs he buys from beggars, and writes about what he discovers from his interactions with their designers and the designs themselves. Clearly there's a lot of sharing of ideas going on: I did engage with all the individuals I purchased signs from, and quite often, my offer of purchase was declined. I would guess at least two out of every five people on the street turned me [..] |
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The New York Times has a slideshow of 176 funny "Chinglish" signs. (Thanks, Lew!)...
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