Maintaining Its Modesty
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From the category archives:
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I was working on a post at my desk this morning, but the fresh snow, and the chance to see it before it was trampled or melted, proved too great a temptation:
Morning Walk
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ReadWriteWeb used wordle.net to create a ‘word cloud’ of President Obama’s inaugural address:
They’ve applied the same technique to past inaugural speeches, too.
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The NY Times reviews a retrospective of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, and includes a slideshow of some of them.
No rush: they will be on display at Mass MoCA for the next twenty-five years.
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BBC news has a narrated slideshow of Eamonn McCabe’s series of photographs of writers’ rooms.
(Click the ‘Show captions’ link below the slideshow to see the names of the writers — though it’s kind of fun to guess.)
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From Google’s announcement:
Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos.
The archive index page explains how to search through the photos by adding “source:life:” to image searches. For example, searching for “World’s Fair Brussels source:life” find photos from the 1958 World’s Fair, such as this night shot of the Atomium:
Atomium under construction, Brusells, 1958
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Geoffrey Raymond paints the faces of public figures involved in the financial crisis, and asks pedestrians on Wall Street to frame the images with their thoughts:
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In the lifeboat - and it was not a drill.
From Andy White’s photos and personal account of the last voyage of the Antarctic cruise ship that sank in November 2007. View the full set on Flickr to see all the photos and read his comprehensive notes.
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I’m re-reading Alain de Botton’s “The Art of Travel” which connected me with Edward Hopper for the first time.
Early, and unpeopled:
Road in Maine (1914)
Blackhead, Monhegan (1916-1919)
Later, with solitary figures:
Hotel Room (1931)
Automat (1927)
Monochrome and solitary:
Solitary Figure in a Theatre (1902-1904)
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Marty Coleman shares the “series of drawings & quotes on napkins” he put in his daughters’ lunches:
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