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A new magazine announced by Hugo Gernsback
brucesterling: Amazing Stories, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1926 Another Fiction Magazine! At first thought it does seem impossible that there could be room for another fiction magazine in this country. The reader may well wonder, “Aren’t there enough already, with the several hundreds now being published?” True.1 But this is not “another fiction magazine,”…
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lacma: Before emojis there were… NETSUKE 😡 A netsuke is a small sculptural object which has developed in Japan over a period of more than three hundred years. Netsuke initially served both functional and aesthetic purposes. The traditional form of Japanese dress, the kimono, had no pockets. Women would tuck small personal items into their…
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cinoh: Sam Shepherd
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Days before elections, the official in charge of Kenya’s voting machines has been tortured and murdered
mostlysignssomeportents: Chris Msando is the Kenyan electoral commission IT manager who oversaw the country’s computerized voting systems; now, just days before a hotly contested election, his body has been found in the Kikuyu area in Nairobi’s outskirts, and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission says he was tortured and murdered. Previous Kenyan elections were plagued…
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nevver: “Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.” Sam Shepard, Dead at 73
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How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game
How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game kenyatta: This trend toward I.P.-based movies has been profound. In 1996, of the top 20 grossing films, nine were live-action movies based on wholly original screenplays. In 2016, just one of the top 20 grossing movies, ‘‘La La Land,’’ fit that…
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boweldisruptions: knitpool: blujayonthewing: So it occurred to me that ‘grawlix’ is sort of an obscure and specialized word, but what I didn’t know until I was googling around just now is that it was actually invented by cartoonist Mort Walker in his 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, in which he categorizes (and invents terminology for)…
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iamdanw: via Glen Murphy on Twitter: “Humanizing the noise of overhead planes by listening to their broadcasts and plotting them in realtime on the ceiling with lasers”
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atlasobscura: The Wool Brigades of World War I, When Knitting Was a Patriotic Duty In August 1918, the Comforts Committee of the Navy League of the United States opened a three-day knitting bee in Central Park. It was a massive event, with a sole purpose: to produce warm garments for those fighting in World War…