Forget Netflix, YouTube has some incredible vintage documentaries about art and history. Made during the days of analogue, these docos may seem pixellated and blurry by today’s standards. Yet if you persevere, you’ll be rewarded with terrific storytelling, great production values and enigmatic and fascinating subject matter. Here for you are some great documentaries about materialContinue reading “The lost art and history documentaries of YouTube”
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Every Picture Tells A Story: Young Stanley Kubrik’s mysterious showgirl
As a young and upcoming photographer, Stanley Kubrik landed a job for Look Magazine in 1949. This meant he got paid to trail in the wake of stunningly beautiful showgirl Rosemary Williams through the rainy Gothic streets of NYC and to capture her in her intimate surroundings of home along walking the film noir streetsContinue reading “Every Picture Tells A Story: Young Stanley Kubrik’s mysterious showgirl”
The Vintage Restart Page
Are you lonely and nostalgic for all of the crappy, interminably slow and dull-as-dishwater computers that you have possessed in the past. If you answered yes then enter into the timewarp that is the Vintage Restart Page. This features all of the crappy clip art graphics and quaintly exaggerated shadowing on buttons that you haveContinue reading “The Vintage Restart Page”
Every Picture Tells A Story: Caribou herd in Wyoming, 1954
A herd of caribou seen in vicinity of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Shot by Helmut Buechner during some field work in 1954. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution on Flickr.
Decode ancient manuscripts in this online course about Medieval Spanish Burgos
A new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) aims to involve people are volunteer historians who are needed to decrypt and decode 1,500 pages of medieval manuscripts from the Cathedral of Burgos (Spain). Even better, there is a Massive Open Online Course that accompanies the process. Read more about it here. To Won’s Father: An AncientContinue reading “Decode ancient manuscripts in this online course about Medieval Spanish Burgos”
Every Picture Tells A Story: Eerie and empty Yeşilköy Airport, Istanbul 1975
An Interior View of Yeşilköy Airport – İstanbul Atatürk Aiport. Courtesy of Salt Online via Flickr.
Every Picture Tells A Story: Lion Tamer for a touring circus at Ascot, 1936
A fearless lion tamer goads and encourages her intimidating charges during the Bertram Mills Touring Circus at Ascot. Shot by Edward G Malindine in 1936. Courtesy of the National Media Museum on Flickr
Every Picture Tells A Story: Kosciusko Public Swimming Pool, Brooklyn 1974.
Four cool guys scope the vibrant and lively scene at Kosciusko Public Swimming Pool, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant District of Brooklyn (New York City). Taken during a hot summer in June, 1974. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives on Flickr.
Every Picture Tells A Story: Shamrock Hurling Club in Waterford, 1915
This photograph of the Shamrock Hurling Club, Waterford Co. Champions, 1915-16: was commissioned by Mr. Murph of, Ferrybank. The 1916 Waterford County Senior Hurling Championship was played in October and resulted in a draw, so Ferrybank Shamrocks (as they were known) played the Young Irelands again on Sunday, 26 November 1916. The Shamrocks won byContinue reading “Every Picture Tells A Story: Shamrock Hurling Club in Waterford, 1915”
Wild Imaginings Part 4: Trees
You may not be aware, but there’s a plethora of sub-reddit pages that await your discovery. They feature the collective output of the wild imaginations of creative Reddit users. These people are both professional and amateur artists who contribute the most stunning and mind-bending illustrations and bring into this world the wild imaginings of fantasy,Continue reading “Wild Imaginings Part 4: Trees”
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