Contributed by Florian Hardwig
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The German sleeve for Althea & Donna’s 1978 hit single “Uptown Top Ranking” features four typefaces that were all available from Letraset at the time. None of them was an original creation by the English manufacturer of dry transfer lettering, though: Kabel Black (“Top Ten in England”)…
By the time Jake Rosmarin finally lowered the curtains in his room, most of the satellite trucks outside had disappeared.
“I’m in good spirits,” Rosmarin said during a video interview with __The Advocate__ on Monday from inside quarantine. “I feel good. I have no symptoms.”
A week into his federally mandated six-week isolation at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska…
Lenny Martinez has a lookalike.
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video.
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The sunshine recorder was invented in 1853 for measuring the duration of bright sunshine over a day. The contraption consists of a solid glass ball that acts as a…
Peter Oborne picked up the taiaha. The Māori Green Lantern has been swinging it for years. The dragon they're both fighting has the same face — it just changes its collar depending on whose children it's eating.
Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory. Wow. And Yay!
I’ve been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the month on the 6th February, it was exactly 25 years since first registering my domain name jam-factory.com, which means it’s been a quarter of a century making stuff under the name of “Jamfactory”! I put together a wee video edit, cataloguing 25…
You're dressing wrong, when you're out on your bike. Embrace it. 😅
My latest attempt at storytelling - presenting Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's influence on American Buddhism using a top-down camera, printed photos, and accepting that anything I said would be inadequate.