NYPL Labs is proud to bring you the Stereogranimator, a tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library’s vast collections into shareable 3D web formats.
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Hampton Hirscham, Cornellius Joseph Keevil, William Thomas O’Brien and James O’Brien – July 20, 1921.
Mugshots from the 1920s courtesy of the Sydney Justice & Police Museum. Quite fashionable, these criminals. Click through to see more.
- via JG.
Vija Celmins, Night Sky #6, 1993.
Random notes from a trip to the NYPL last weekend include this name, this work.
Years, by Bartholomäus Traubeck.
A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011.
Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm.
-via Quipsologies.
Nick DeWolf spent much of his life documenting the places he’d been and things he’d seen on his travels. His son-in-law has slowly been digitizing and uploading these images to Flickr. They are quite special. The trip begins in May of 1959 on an SAS flight from Idlewild Airport (now called John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Stockholm, Sweden. From there the adventures continue on through France, Switzerland and Italy. - via A Continuous Lean.
Georges Méliès, The Merry Frolics of Satan, 1906.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
Chicago’s Anti-Superstition Society, 1940.
On December 13, 1940 — a Friday, no less — LIFE magazine attended a gathering spread across 13 tables in Room 13 of the Merchants & Manufacturers Club of Chicago. (Yes, each table sat 13 people). The result? The odd and endearing article, “Life Goes to a Friday-the-13th Party,” published a few weeks later in the magazine. Now, in light of January 2012’s very own Friday the 13th, LIFE.com resurrects that feature, and celebrates some old-school businessmen unafraid to step on a crack.
-via Life
Click through for the whole set (i.e., some mirror smashing, black cat holding, salt pouring).
The Ultimate David Lee Roth Karate Kick Compilation.
Keep the volume up for this one.
My heart’s all aflutter after watching this.
-via the Awl.
Molly Rausch’s stamp paintings incorporate several things I am fond of: vintage stamps, miniature paintings, and cleverness.
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