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WEBThe knives are available for sale from John Neeman (for $650), along with axes, chef’s knives, longbows, and other handmade items.. Damascus steel was a legendarily tough and resilient steel used to make Middle Eastern swords. The original process for making Damascus steel was lost, but many modern bladesmiths claim to have rediscovered the process or gotten close enough to call their steel ...
Database of old book illustrations - kottke.org
WEBFeb 7, 2020 · Database of old book illustrations. Here’s an enormous library of thousands of old book illustrations, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was in, etc. There are also a number of collections to browse through, and each are tagged with multiple keywords so you can also get lost in there in that manner. Though the team ...
The most beautiful suicide - kottke.org
WEBJul 16, 2008 · The most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
About Kottke.org
WEBAbout Kottke.org. Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food ...
The Kottke.org Archives
WEBA growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these. Some recommended starting points. Recently popular topics. All-time popular subjects.
Human wormholes and the Great Span - kottke.org
WEBJan 30, 2012 · He called it “the Great Span,” a sort of bucket brigade or relay race across time, a way for adjacent generations to let ideas and goals move intact from one mind to another across a couple of hundred years or more. Hiss cites a pair of stories involving Alger (who died in 1996) and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who Alger clerked for and also ...
Silkscreen font - kottke.org
WEBSilkscreen is a typeface for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen works on the Mac, Linux, and Windows and is free for personal and corporate use.There is more information about Silkscreen in the FAQ below.
Behold Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with ...
WEBOct 21, 2019 · Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) will collide about 4 billion years from now. As part of the announcement from 2012, they produced a video of what the collision would look like and a series of illustrations of what our sky will look ...
The Making of an Iconic Photograph: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant …
WEBJan 31, 2019 · As Puschak notes, the photo we are all familiar with was retouched three years after its initial publication to remove what Lange saw as a detriment to the balance of the scene: the thumb of the woman’s hand holding the tent post in the lower right-hand corner.. It is easy to tell whether a print of “Migrant Mother” was made before 1939, because that year Ms. Lange had an assistant ...
The NBA Court Database - kottke.org
WEBApr 13, 2018 · The NBA Court Database. Flickr user kodrinsky has compiled a massive collection of more than 1100 illustrations of NBA courts dating back to the 50s, an online museum of basketball hardwood. The collection contains floors for every NBA team with additions documenting even small changes in arena names, team logos, free-throw lane layouts, paint schemes, sponsors, and even wood patterns.
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