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When I tell you that the arrangement of sweetly colored textural shapes above is not art I sincerely hope you believe it. Admittedly, you have little reason to. You’ve been here before. You’ve seen that week after week I populate this space with images that are in fact art, or… |
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08/17/08 |
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Accountants hover over the earth like helicopters, Dropping bits of paper engraved with Hegel’s name. Badgers carry the papers on their fur To their den, where the entire family dies in the night. -From A Dream of Suffocation by Robert Bly. |
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08/15/08 |
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Quote: The Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest piece of literature known, but it has lost nothing of its original freshness. Gilgamesh for Apes is an attempt to translate it into the pictorial language used by American and Japanese primate centres teaching language to great apes. Its creator (Wilfried… |
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08/14/08 |
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Though I am an avid science fiction reader, and fond of my dear girl poetry, the bastard child of the two remained unknown to me (as bastard children, and ultra sub-genres, seem prone to do) until I stumbled across some sci-fi poetry, or speculative poetry as it’s also called, by… |
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08/13/08 |
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Quote: ‘Depression’ was not a particularly common term in the eighteenth century, at least not in the modern psychological sense. Samuel Johnson in his famous Dictionary of the English Language (1755) has three definitions for the word, none of which is to do with mental dejection. Only with the verb… |
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08/12/08 |
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In Russia, following a string of embarrassing defeats in the Russo-Japanese War and the infamous Bloody Sunday incident, during the period of the so called Failed Revolution, no less than 480 underground magazines sprung-up to voice the outrage of the many disparate groups and factions and movements—nihilists, anarchists, socialists, Mensheviks,… |
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08/12/08 |
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A good 20 years before the original cocaine-infused Coca-Cola taught the world to grind its teeth and give ineffectual bathroom-stall handjobs in per•fect har•mo•ny, there was another drink of choice among those wishing to feel invigorated and overconfident for no good reason. It was called “coca wine” and it was… |
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08/09/08 |
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Recently New York officials announced a project that would allow citizens to view “live traffic conditions” via a slew cameras set up along roadways all throughout the city. The announcements on all the local news channels were so “gee-whiz! aren’t we all so lucky?!” in tone that I couldn’t help… |
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08/08/08 |
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UK rag the Daily Mail has put up an expose purporting to “unmask” graffiti phenom Banksy. On the one hand it makes me cringe, it’s just so damned silly. But then, I suppose since Banksy’s chosen graffiti as has mode of expression, the whole “law breaker” aspect would warrant, in… |
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08/07/08 |
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Here we have a detail of the Bagdad Metro, work on which evidently began in 1983 but was stopped not long afterward when hostilities between Iraq and Iran heated-up. This is the same Bagdad subway which was famously cited by both Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, during the run up… |
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08/07/08 |
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The openly atheistic Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers, who filed suit in 2007 against “God” evidently had his day in court on Tuesday. He filed this suit to “make a point” obviously. Unfortunately that point was not “Since this God character can’t even be bothered to show up for his own… |
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08/07/08 |
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The kids could be cruel. He could see them, groaning at the sight of him, as he rolled up in the volvo. They were embarrassed they’d say. They’d call him weird and look away. His wife always seemed tired. She didn’t laugh at his jokes anymore. She often slept on… |
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08/06/08 |
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Here we see reader, and fellow “neoyorquino,” Evan wearing the first Nonist T-Shirt ever sold, seated in front of a spanish-language version of the poster which inspired it. Cheers Evan, you are a scholar and a gentleman. As soon as I receive the $3 profit I made I will tape… |
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08/06/08 |
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“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” -André Breton. “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” -Charles Dickens Hence: Nature gives to every time and season some convulsions of its own. (Image is titled Eve Gets a Gene Altered Tomato by Davis… |
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08/05/08 |
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“I have named her Augustine.” “Named a lunatic after a saint! Well, perhaps they are much the same. The idiot, the mystic…” “She is not an idiot.” She listens at the door, biting her fingernails. She needs to know what they want from her so that she can perform when… |
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08/05/08 |
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Live Loathe laugh . No wordy highfalutin’ explanations needed for this tee yall. Here we have good ol’ fashioned proverbial words to live by. Passed down through generations of unsatisfied, pissed-off, cynics and stoics and realists and sarcastic nay-sayers its folksy wisdom is as relevant today as the day it… |
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08/05/08 |
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In 6th century BCE the concept that matter is composed of discrete and not infinitely reducible units developed in India. Around 460 B.C. the Greek Democritus named these fundamental and irreducible bits of matter átomos , meaning “uncuttable.” Notions of this kind were at this point in history, more than… |
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08/04/08 |
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08/16/08 |
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Above we see a control image (a) and the same image drawn by a patent suffering from hemispacial neglect (b), a condition in which awareness of an entire side of space is lost. Quote: Hemineglect, also known as unilateral neglect, hemispatial neglect or spatial neglect, is is a common and… |
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08/03/08 |
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Quote: One summer’s day in the mid-1860’s, a young French boy named Joseph Pujol had a frightening experience at the seashore. Swimming out alone, he held his breath and dove underwater. Suddenly an icy cold feeling penetrated his gut. Frightened, he ran ashore, but then received a second shock when… |
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08/03/08 |
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To the reader who recently wrote in to ask what “educational gift” I might recommend for his teenage nephew I hereby suggest this beloved classic- The Avenging Unicorn Playset by Accoutrements Outfitters of Popular Culture. Comes complete with 4 magical horns and 3 figures to impale. “Yes, that pleases me.”… |
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08/03/08 |
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Hello all, Just a note to let you know that the lady and I are off to a tropical paradise vacation tomorrow and I’ll be largely incommunicado. Though both my nature and complexion are utterly unsuited for such a trip I plan to do much lazy ocean-side drinking and reading,… |
jmorrison |
07/23/08 |
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Whilst looking over some traffic statistics for thenonist.com I had an interesting realization. It seems that in the time that I’ve been using my current statistical analysis tools, a span of roughly 2 years, The Nonist has welcomed at least 1 visitor from all but 8 countries on planet Earth.… |
jmorrison |
07/22/08 |
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If I accosted you on the street, grabbed you by the shoulders, and blurted, “The Last Supper!” involuntarily (and to spite your fear of being pawed and shouted at by a lunatic) an image would form in your head. We all know what that image is without any need of… |
jmorrison |
07/20/08 |
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Sometimes one might walk down the street, breathing the air, hearing the sounds, looking around, and get the sense that the youth of America are shaking-off their apathy, finding their social conscience, and embracing the idea of active involvement so succinctly summed up by Martin Luther King Jr. when he… |
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You know, no matter how looney and wrong-minded much of religiosity may strike me, no matter how I may cringe and jerk away from it like smelling salts, I can say one thing for certain, it is not for a lack of really nifty charts. A fellow by the name… |
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07/19/08 |
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I think we can all agree the TED talks are pretty terrific, top to bottom. I wanted to point you toward one in particular in case you missed it, namely Arthur Ganson, sculptor and engineer, talking about some of his kinetic art. His work just… makes me happy. Pictured above… |
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07/19/08 |
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Quote: “On stepping out to the terrace, I was very agreeably surprised to see my shadow some 200 feet high, s thrown on the mist by a strong lamp, rise up to the zenith! It was a very curious spectacle indeed. every movement of the hand or head was faithfully… |
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07/19/08 |
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S’more Mallow S’more Problems Quote: Money is a powerful force in human life and affairs. Its very power gives pause to those who look to evolution for full explanations of human behavior, because money has not existed long enough to have influenced evolution. By some estimates, money only goes back… |
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07/19/08 |
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I originally created the image above with plans of making it a t-shirt graphic. I came to my senses, however, when it dawned on me that the segment of my readership which might fall under the “sexually submissive nerd in search of intimacy who happens to also be painfully shy,… |
jmorrison |
07/17/08 |
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Royalty’s all consuming concern for controlled lines of succession and the Church’s all consuming concern for the comings and goings of their flock’s reproductive organs sure did converge to do a number on children born out of wedlock! Poor bastards. Evidently a perusal of Parish registers, especially those prior to… |
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07/17/08 |
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Quote: life on the internet is fleeting, there is a group of history blogs that seem to me to be central to history blogging. I don’t presume to… suggest that they are better than other history blogs that are not on the list. I do mean to say that, without… |
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07/16/08 |
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Moonlighting engineers with help from retirees and space enthusiasts plan alternate rocket and moon mission? No it is not the pitch for the newest Joss Whedon series. Quote: By day, the engineers work on NASA’s new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design… |
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Is Heinrich Kieber a modern-day robin hood? No. A new folk-hero trying to awaken the sleepy / sheepy masses to the realities of a ceasless class war? No. An idealistic do-gooder taking a stand in a world sucked-dry by vampiric corporate greed? Nope. Truth be told he’s not even a… |
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07/16/08 |
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Hello: Just a note to let you know my Mac died after 5-plus years of tireless service and I am in the process right now of setting up a new system, recovering data, etc. I may be MIA for a few days. Will return to you soon. -J |
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07/13/08 |
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Serif’s Lament. The Serif, as elegant and sophisticated a workhorse as you’re likely to see. Unsung hero of the printed word since presses first began their clacking. But older than that; much older. Old enough to be chiseled into worn-down Roman stone, with origins (both physical and etymological) at least… |
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07/10/08 |
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Quote: Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse to have sex with it. The court waded into the grisly case after lower court judges ruled nothing in state law banned necrophilia. (Link)… |
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07/10/08 |
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For your entertainment and personal pleasure I now pass on some eminantly useful occult knowledge, long forgotten by such as we. Taken from a 1913 publication titled The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite, this spell is sure to liven-up a dull evening at home. (As always, please… |
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07/10/08 |
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Today I punched someone in the face. Sounds crazy I know, but it’s a fact. I was returning to the office with a co-worker, after lunch, when I was asked by a squatter/punk-type guy whether I “had any money for blah blah blah.” I responded with a simple and brusque… |
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07/09/08 |
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SciAm has an interesting article up about a saucer-shaped IFO called the wingless electromagnetic air vehicle (WEAV) that will (read might) “propel itself using electrodes that cover its surface to ionize the surrounding air into plasma.” Professor Subrata Roy says, “All of the materials needed to make this aircraft currently… |
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07/08/08 |
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A notorious tease, he may pretend not to be aware of you. Just wait. He must speak first. Then you may begin to praise him. Remember: sincerity and naturalness count for more than wit. His jokes may strike you as abstruse. Only laugh if he does. Gifts? They say he’s… |
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07/08/08 |
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One of the supreme pleasures of that giddy delirium called human consciousness is an unsuppressable proclivity for filtering each extant instant and event, all objects, and every possible thing through the highly sensitive prism of emotion. The result is, put simply, poetry. We look at things around us, purposeful things,… |
jmorrison |
07/07/08 |
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Ape Resistance . Imagine, if you will an already backward-leaning country, by some strange cast of the die, sliding full-tilt into dogmatic lunacy. Imagine the ascendance of a bona-fide Theocratic state which, above all, ruthlessly “discourages” any mention of evolution or natural selection. Imagine a scientific and non-believer community driven… |
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07/06/08 |
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Some Geo. Mather’s Sons Inks: (left to right, top to bottom) Jacqueminot Red. Photo Brown. Old Gold. Fine Chocolate. Blue Black—Deep. Magenta. Peacock Blue. Permanent Purple—Bluish. Persian Orange. Carminated Red. Gloss Black. Light Green. Slightly adapted from the handsome Price List of Type, Printing Machinery and Material. Manufactured and for… |
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07/06/08 |
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If you’ve never seen E. Elias Merhige’s hallucinatory and gorgeous film Begotten , well, here it is. Admittedly this is a film not best watched on a computer screen on a lazy summer Sunday afternoon. This is a film meant to be watched alone, in February, at 2 am, on… |
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07/06/08 |
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Came across a terrific bit of primate related reading today which I wanted to pass on. It’s a pdf titled PrimatePoetics hosted over at SocialFiction. The pamphlet posits that non-human primates have long been observed to use their own type of language in the wild, and that in captivity, those… |
jmorrison |
07/05/08 |
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The image you see above is evidently a cabalistic (or qabalistic) symbol of the infinite. It contains within itself all the lines and curves necessary to represent the numbers 1 through 10, as is clearly visible by the added indicators in black. In Hermetic Qabalistic tradition the numbers themselves are… |
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07/05/08 |
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In case you missed it cover art for the third series of radically redesigned Penguin Classics have seen the light of day over at We Made This. You can see them in all their monochromatic glory here. (Thanks Pierce) Pictured above are two of my faves. On the left Orwell’s… |
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07/05/08 |
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The following is a hodgepodge of images and text, taken from The Library of Congress’ American Memory site and the New York Public Library’s Digital Collection, which represent, without much comment on my part, some isolated moments and issues and attitudes from Independence Days past. They span the years between… |
jmorrison |
07/04/08 |
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I love the way news stories on hallucinogenic drug research always have this sort of willful ignorance to them. Headline: Magic Mushrooms: Study Says They Help Some See Their Spiritual Side . Whenever I see a headline along these lines I can’t help but blurt out, like a annoyed pre-teen,… |
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07/02/08 |
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On July 1st 1858 a theory, jointly arrived at by one Charles Darwin and one Alfred Russel Wallace, was presented to The Linnean Society of London in the form of two papers. The theory, of course, was Natural Selection, and it was revealed to the world 150 years ago today.… |
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07/01/08 |
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Keywords: Japanese, slutty maid, zombies, chainsaw, gore, claymation, sweet! Via. |
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07/01/08 |
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Gosh Tees. Here we have two handsome new tees being made available at the Nonist Shop, both variations on a theme. Whether you are an atheist seeking to snuff-out superstitious hokum one sentence at a time, an enthusiastic follower of commandments desiring to mince every oath, a situationist, a cultural… |
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07/01/08 |
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I’ve noticed, in my long years of toiling wage slavery, that certain products created exclusively for corporate consumption, specifically those products meant to be used in office kitchens and bathrooms, are, shall we say, “different” from their consumer level counterparts. These are purely functional items whose exteriors fall somewhere between… |
jmorrison |
06/30/08 |
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Have you ever wondered when it was exactly that clowns became terrifying to people? I mean, sure, there must have always been little bed-wetting children here and there who were put-off by clowns, all the way back to Scaramouche’s day and beyond. But at what point did clowns transform, in… |
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06/29/08 |
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In 1929 a travelogue was released that would, through the chain reaction it set off, have a profound effect on American popular culture and by extension the American collective consciousness. It was written by a fellow with a questionable resume of personal traits said to include alcoholism, occultism, sensory deprivation,… |
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06/29/08 |
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Got that? They’ll be a quiz. Originally from Little Pet’s Picture Alphabet , 1850’s. |
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06/28/08 |
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Shot recently on the Brooklyn back-streets. Quote: To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to… |
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06/28/08 |
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Today IO9 linked to a page re-telling the story of Sergei Brukhonenko and the severed dog’s head he reportedly managed to keep alive with his autojector . It’s a fascinating historical tidbit. Anyhoo, I’d completely forgotten about it until today, and IO9’s gentle reminder was all the excuse I needed… |
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06/26/08 |
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In conjunction with my post over at the Nonist proper about the poster art of Tomi Ungerer I would like to offer some related content here, namely some pieces Mr. Ungerer created for an exhibition at IBM’s New York City headquarters. The exhibition, held in 1966, was called Some Computer… |
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06/26/08 |
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Quote: Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world: nothing, or as good as nothing, to men that sit idly caucusing and ballot-boxing on the graves of their heroic ancestors, saying, “It is… |
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06/25/08 |
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Tomi Ungerer’s work, along with that of a handful of others, might rightly be considered to not only embody the design style of the 60’s and 70’s, but to have played a central part in that style’s ascendence. Throughout those decades Mr. Ungerer’s work was everywhere, encompassing everything from politics… |
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06/25/08 |
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Came across an interesting item tucked within hamletworks.org, titled: Visual Representations of Hamlet, 1709-1900 . Check it out. Meanwhile, by way of augmentation, a quick search reveals: Hamlet on the Ramparts’ Art and Production Stills, Hamlet lantern slides, Delacroix’s Lithographs of Hamlet, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet page, NYPL Hamlet,… |
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06/23/08 |
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Came across the site Branded in the 80’s which has among its offerings a pretty dynamite collection of nostalgic stickers for your viewing pleasure. And no, they don’t all depict monsters, despite the two I decided to feature above. |
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06/23/08 |
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In honor of Mr. Carlin, whose work I enjoyed. And a larger version for genral use. |
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06/23/08 |
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Quote: The monkey is the only animal, except man, that practices this science; hence he is our brother; there is a bond of sympathy and relationship between us. Give this ingenious animal an audience of the proper kind, and he will straightway put aside his other affairs and take a… |
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06/21/08 |
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Dearest Fingers. The typewriter, after centuries of dedicated service, is fading fast from the memory of men. These noble machines, once the trusted friend of novelist, philosopher, poet, lover, spy, and bureaucrat alike, have fallen on hard times. Today they sit in attics and shadowy back-rooms, confused and lonely. They… |
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06/21/08 |
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Thunder… Thunder… Thundereggs! Quote: According to ancient Native American legend, when the Thunder Spirits living in the highest recesses of snowcapped Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson became angry with one another, amid violent thunder and lightning storms they would hurl masses of these spherical rocks at each other. The hostile… |
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06/20/08 |
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AHHHH Quote: Heads were preserved in Greece and supposed to have prophetic knowledge. A sneeze would naturally be traced to something inside the head, and be regarded as a spontaneous expression of that something, independent of the body and the conscious will. It was regarded as prophetic, a sign from… |
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06/20/08 |
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Well, I see a slightly deformed pelvis, soaked in pomegranate juice and then smeared with wasabi. Whatever that means. |
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Quote: “Several years ago, at a sumptuous Chinese dinner in Geneva, my hosts asked whether I would do them a favor, or, rather, a favor for their cook, who had prepared the banquet. I intended driving through the Alps later that night, to arrive at dawn on the French Riviera… |
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Today at the Nonist proper, I posted a piece on being an atheist in a world of Religious profanity, with special consideration for so-called minced oaths. I was hoping, with your help, to compile a running list of exclamations which eschew the usual “God!” “Christ!” “Holy whatever!” conventions that come… |
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As a bona-fide ⊕ atheist I find myself curiously conscious about the oaths I speak. Every time, in a moment of anger, I inadvertently begin barking “Jesus!” or “Christ!” or “God Damn it!” I feel slightly embarrassed afterward, as if my thoughtless reliance on these oaths, and others like them,… |
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06/18/08 |
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Chinaski reading two of my faves, The Genius of the Crowd (Via headless) and Dinosauria, We , both of which (along with another fave Strongest of the Strange ) can be heard on the audio collection Run With the Hunted . |
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06/17/08 |
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Are you familiar with the Federal Writer’s Folklore and Life Histories project? It was a subsection of the larger FWP (itself a New Deal arts program) undertaken to support writers during the great depression. The Folklore Project, in particular, has fascinated me for years because at bottom it is simply… |
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06/15/08 |
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Check out this Flickr set uploaded by Eric Carl: Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes . Great for inspiration seekers, shameless design thieves, and vintage graphics hounds alike. (Via Plep in NY) Note: the image above was bent to my own purposes… |
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06/14/08 |
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With the news that NASA had awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc., for the design, development, and production of a new spacesuit system, dubbed the constellation spacesuit, for use during our next foray into manned planetoid-hopping I thought it would be an opportune moment to offer you, my most… |
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06/14/08 |
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Quote: Sergeant L. M. Dey, signal officer at the summit of Pike’s Peak, wrote the editor of Scientific American in 1882 about the fascinating effects of electric discharge at high altitudes. The weather station equipment was covered with “brushes” of light. “In placing my hands over the revolving cups of… |
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06/14/08 |
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Are you familiar with the Chinese Olympic mascots? That’s them pictured above. Quote: Like the Five Olympic Rings from which they draw their color and inspiration, Fuwa will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace—and good wishes from China—to children… |
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06/13/08 |
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How to kiss (excepting philologists) Quote: Kissing comes by instinct, and yet it is in art which few understand properly. A lover should not hold his bride by the ears in kissing her, as appears to have been customary at Scotch weddings of the last century. A more graceful way,… |
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06/12/08 |
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Can there be any doubt that of all the words and phrases which have made their way down to us from Old French, that one of its greatest, most prescient, linguistic contribution is a 5 letter word which manages, in spite of its diminutive size, to neatly sum up the… |
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06/12/08 |
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Night Sky #2. 1991, oil on canvas. By Vija Celmins. Quote: With jewellike imagery and a suggestion of vastness, Night Sky #2 is at once romantic and unsettling. Without the anchor of a horizon or a humanly scaled reference point, viewers may find it difficult to determine their relationship to… |
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06/12/08 |
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Can you begin to imagine the amount of time spent by the human race in pursuit of magic? I am not speaking metaphorically here. I mean can you imagine the sum total man-hours devoted to actively invoking, incanting, intoning, beseeching, divining, scrying, summoning, chanting, conjuring, and casting? And though, so… |
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06/12/08 |
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Quote: “Gary was watching a ‘World’s Strongest Women’ show and saw a woman pick up a motorcycle.?‘Oh I could do that,’ I offered.?‘Could you?’ he responded, breathless.?‘Yes. How much do you weigh?’?‘160.’?‘Oh. I could bench-press two of you.’?‘Oh my god… I’d like to see you lift up my girlfriend’s car.’?‘What… |
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06/10/08 |
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Quote: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I apologise for getting you out of bed so early. At 0500 hours this morning the combined armed forces of mankind across the globe launched a massive and sustained land, sea and air attack on the Kingdom of Heaven. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.… |
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06/10/08 |
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Intentionally employing an “off-register” effect for printed works can be a successful design strategy and can yield a handsomely “hand-done” look. It is a strategy, however, which demands to be employed with a certain care, as a clumsy application can have unexpected results and the design may suffer. I believe… |
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The Adventures of Young Charles Darwin , Episode I, in which an impressionably young Charles is confronted with all the elements necessary to subconsciously foment a vicious strain of erotic fetishism later in life, but which, so far as anyone knows, he heroically resisted. Quote: When I was four years… |
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06/09/08 |
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No less than 43 Chinese torture methods (purportedly used on practitioners of the “cultivation practice” Falun Gong since the official governmental crackdown began in 1999) described and illustrated: Part I & Part II. |
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06/09/08 |
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Selectively taken from the faculty page of a 1978 University catalogue here we see, from left to right, Seymour Chwast , Milton Glaser, and Herb Lubalin. ‘78 must have been a fine year to attend Cooper Union. Shame I was 4 at the time. |
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06/08/08 |
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Hello? Is this the Mayor’s office? Yes, Hi. I was just wondering… can you please stop kicking me in the face? I am a smoker. At my local deli here in Brooklyn the cost of a pack of cigarettes has just hit $9. Be that as it may I’m still… |
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06/08/08 |
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There is something terrifically satisfying about seeing, with your own eyes, the humble genesis of world-changing creations. The image above is a case in point. What we see pictured here, as I’m sure many of you already know, is the world’s first integrated circuit, created by Jack S. Kilby in… |
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06/07/08 |
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You said I didn’t care. I went to her grave with flowers and you shrugged. You were cruel. You mocked me. It was banal and expected, you said. It was “the least one could do and the most most did.” You pushed me. “Where is the towering inferno? Where is… |
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06/05/08 |
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Quote: The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949). A set of neat conclusions, as to the outcome of the conference, was neither expected nor desired. Rather, it was hoped that… |
jmorrison |
06/04/08 |
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This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man , is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance… |
jmorrison |
06/04/08 |
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Came across an online archive of the magazine Cosmic Search which I thought I’d pass along. Cosmic Search has the distinction of being the first magazine devoted to astrobiology and the search for extra terrestrial inteligence (the second being SetiQuest). 13 issues were published between 1979 and 1982 and all… |
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06/04/08 |
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Whatever Happened To Mildred Simmons? Or: Missing Links. Her story is well pretty well known I should think. Conceived in 1946, in the back room of a Marshall Islands military viewing station, just days after the detonation of the 158 megaton nuclear device code named Able , Mildred Simmons was… |
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06/04/08 |
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Well-Known Pleasures. New to the Nonist Shop. The classics never die, they just multiply, until they are available in every possible retail market from Urban Outfitters to the street vendors peppering city sidewalks. Such is the case with the |
jmorrison |
06/01/08 |
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I wonder whether any of you have seen the film Lars and the Real Girl ? It was a sweet, chaste sort of film considering its casting of a Real Doll as the female lead, and though I enjoyed it I couldn’t help but spend its entire length being reminded… |
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06/01/08 |
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Yesterday I took a nice long walk around my corner of Brooklyn. It was a beautiful day. I was walking through the area around the Gowanus Canal, a very “industrial wasteland” type area where you seldom see anyone other than truckers barreling past and the odd cab driver. There’s lots… |
jmorrison |
05/31/08 |
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What do you get when you mix the the cultural archetype of the “sexually avialable” woman, semantic field relationships, charts, 1970’s feminist fervor, metonymic and metaphoric qualifiers, arrows, John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor , an x-y axis of cost vs. length of contact , rounded rectangles, dysphemism and euphemistic evasion of… |
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