I am a DFH at heart, so I was ecstatic to fall over scans of both Domebook 2 and How to Build Your Own Living Structures on the new-to-me and awesome Public Collectors site. Thanks, Greg Allen.
Art in the Mail
Yet another good thing about the Internet – finding artists you’d never otherwise encounter, who sell beautiful work at irresistible prices.
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Update – Stephanie has an etsy site/storefront. Go and buy art! (Also added to blogroll.)
One for the Russophiles
Via HH’s blog, the Library of Congress’ Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record collection. I’ll let Hollister tell the tale:
…on the eve of the first world war and the Russian Revolution, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii talked Nicholas into backing his plan to capture the Russian Empire on digichrome glass plates. Between 1909-1912, and again in 1915, he completed surveys of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car provided by the Ministry of Transportation.
Well worth searching/browsing for a while; it makes me want to pull out my copy of Arseniev.
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I wonder what the graffiti says? Also, looks like a Turkman ak öý or gara öý – the Central Asian version of the ger – to me.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
I don’t think I’ve ever posted pictures of this little cutie from my trash treasure collection. It’s 8k of magnetic core memory from a GE-235 (I think) digital info processing unit – warning – 235 link is to a pdf, but a worthwhile one. If you open the pdf, check the disk drive in the upper right of page two. It’s footprint was roughly the size of a chest freezer and it had big@ss pneumatic hoses that actuated the arms carrying the heads. Also check the printer control panel on page four – I have just the panel itself in the basement, waiting for me to get inspired.
This is why core dumps are (or were) so named – little donuts, one per bit.
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They weren’t exactly mass producing these back in 1966.
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The nameplate:
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And click here for a ‘did he really say it’ regarding the post’s title.