Pints in 1844
Tumblr tells me this is the earliest known photograph of men drinking beer. (Edinburgh Ale, 1844, by Hill & Adamson).
Photos
Haus of Maus
Dead mouse seen last night on Ossington north of Dundas.
Credits to Ms. Styler for the spotlight (a bicycle l.e.d.)
RT’ing JJJound
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The world needs more Alfalfa
Alien vs. Predator
(via ? be careful!! this site is generallyand wonderfully NSFW)
Limbaugh’s NY Condo
Slide show on Business Insider
Also on Gawker (the headline this morning read 'tasteless' rather than 'gaudy'):
Rush Limbaugh's Gaudy Fifth Avenue Penthouse Is Now For Sale
It looks like Rush Limbaugh is moving ahead with his threat to leave New York City. He's (finally!) put his tacky Fifth Avenue apartment up for sale. The cost of ridding NYC of Rush once and for all? $13.95 million.
Limbaugh promised that he'd sell his Manhattan apartment last March after the Paterson administration proposed raising taxes on New York residents who make more than $500,000 a year. (That wasn't the first time he'd made the threat. On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Limbaugh said he was "seriously considering selling it," since "it may now become stupid to own any property there.")
Limbaugh was lying at the time, unfortunately. Months after making the "threat," he'd yet to actually put the Fifth Avenue apartment on the market.
But now he has! The 20th-floor penthouse at 1049 Fifth Avenue, which Limbaugh purchased in 1994 under the name RH Trust (Rush's middle name is Hudson) wasofficially listed two weeks ago for $13.95 million. And although he's described the place on his radio show as "fashionable," it's doubtful that will be the word that comes to mind when you look at the photos below, which show off moldings of "hand painted gold leaf" and his "hand painted ceilings and walls" by "renowned artist" Richard Smith.
Godwin’s Law 2.0
Street Cred
Queen Anne Chair
RT’ing JJJound
Vacation
I’d rather visit here:
(From, Via)
then here:
(From)
For one, I imagine the first would have a fantastic library.
Although the second is my desktop at work,
The first is my desktop at home.
Fuck Shanghai.
15 April 1998
Used for my NSCAD Photoshop class.
Macintosh pre-formated.
Also on Flickr
Contrail Vanishing Point
Contrail Vanishing Point, Campbellton New Brunswick, Saturday 5 January 2008 12pm Ontaratime/1pm Maritime
King Tut Then and Now
THEN
A slight young man who was considered a god king 3329 years ago when he died. With a long narrow skull which some people make out to be part of an ancient alien-worship cult, but that’s another story. He lies in his box for those thirty centuries while the world slowly turns into airplanes, nuclear weapons and the idiocies of television. Three thousand two hundred and forty-four years after his death, English colonials raid the tomb and use hot knives to remove the famous golden mask, glued to his face. Media frenzy ensues. A boy-king legend in born. King Tut enters the vernacular.
NOW
A shriveled leather prop for Egyptian tourist revenue.
Caesar and Cicero
The Deaths of Caesar
Vincenzo Camuccini, Cesar Sa Mort (1798)
Jean-Leon Gerome, Death of Caesar (1867)
Death of Caesar, from video series Empire, (2005)
Death of Caesar, from video series Rome, (2005)
The interior of the Curia Julia today (from Flickr)
I congratulate you. I am wild with delight. I love you and am watching over your interests. I want you to send me in return your love and an account of what you are doing and of all that is going on.
This was a note sent in excitement to Basilus, who would be killed by one of his slaves the following year, who he had punished with mutilation. Basilus had been a solider under Caesar in Gaul, and expected a province to be given him by the dictator. Caesar instead paid him what must have been a large sum of money, and this soured him against the Tyrant and so he joined the conspiracy.
Two days later (on the 17th) Cicero writes to Brutus and Cassius
I learned yesterday evening from Hirtius that Antony is disposed to play us false, pretending that the hostility of the soldiers and of the mob makes it unsafe for us to stay in Rome. So I have applied for liberae legationes for us, but do not expect to get them and fear the worst. So I think we should retire into exile, as we cannot well resort to force, having no rallying point. Let me know your views and where to meet you.
PS After a second talk with Hirtius I determined to ask leave for us to live in Rome with a guard.
The Roman Mob, which made it unsafe for the Conspirators, had burned the site of the deed, although it is not clear when exactly this took place. The transformation of the Hostilla into the Julia wouldn’t be complete for another fifteen years.
The Addresses of Cicero
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, (1882-1888)
Cicero announces Octavian, from video series Rome (2007)
Audrey Kawasaki’s Workspace
This second image is very William Gibson novel; the lone poor artist working away at their craft. Young, beautiful and pragmatic. Eventually, this picture will be updated with timestamps from the 2030s; she’ll be gray-haired, standing in an industrial studio, white walls and everything so clean. The studio will look like a Japanese car factory, and the art will be so big, so expensive.(source)
www.audrey-kawasaki.com
Sylvia Ji’s Studio
source
Work Spaces
Update
William Gibson in his office (detail)
William Gibson (full view)
(one suspects it’s usually less tidy; a clean up job for the video cameras)
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Aug 19
Al Gore in his office
Noam Chomsky in his office
Bill Gates in his office
Robert Hughes in his condo
Pope B at a desk
Haruo Suekichi’s work space
Fricot Thursday
Vermeer’s Camera Obscura
Phantom of the Opera
World Cup in Goethe Land
an historical event witnessed on television
Tues. 28 January 1986
Goethe Photograph
During the summer I’ve been reading up on Johann von Goethe. Somewhere someone noted that when Goethe died the first photographs had been taken, but this having happened in 1832, he never had a chance to sit for a portrait. Nevertheless, I tried to imagine his features (known from drawings and paintings and widely available via the web) in the grayscale of a 19th Century photograph.
Given that with a computer one can do almost anything, last night I sat down to see if I could make something. Imagine then that photography had been invented 20 years earlier, and that the famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had sat for a portrait in 1828. Of the two images I worked on last night, this one is the most successful.
Starchitecture
San Fransisco’s Bay Stadium, 2154
Starfleet Headquarters, San Fransisco, 2154
The signing of the Federation Charter, 2161
The capital city of ShiKhar, planet Vulcan
The buildings of ShiKahr
The capital city of Romulus
The capital city of Romulus, showing the Senate chamber
The Romulan Senate Chamber
The Millenium Gate, from Voyager episode, 11:59
Paolo Soleri’s Hyperbuilding
Le Corbusier’s proposed revision of Paris
(images mostly from Enterprise Screencaps; others via Google and my archives)
Vulcan Sculpture
Vulcan Monumentalism
Vulcan Monumentalism, The Fire Plains
Vulcan Monumentalism, The Fire Plains (scale)
(images mostly from Enterprise Screencaps; episode: Home, 2004)