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hansnostdahl: crete, 2012 Notes: 26
frodesignco: The Iron ThronePart of Frodesignco’s Saul Bass TributeWhich goes live tomorrow 5/9 at 8:00 am Pacific. More info here.Reblog for a chance to win a free set! Notes: 24
burnedshoes: Unknown photographer / Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1905, ‘Buzzard Pete’, Charlottesville Charlottesville, Virginia, circa 1905. “Buzzard Pete.” Evidently a celebrated figure on the University of Virginia campus, fondly recalled decades later in various alumni publications. 8×10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. Who was Buzzard Pete? There’s an interesting story about this topic on blog.encyclopediavirginia.org, here’s a short excerpt: A quick Google search turns up some of those alumni publications. For instance, in the 1914 alumni bulletin, the president of the class of 1909 writes of his last-minute decision to attend Finals: “so I persuaded a poor old negro woman to get sick and let me take her to the University Hospital, for which kindness of my part she was to pay my expenses to and from Charlottesville and a pretty good fee on the side. Well, sir, she “bit,” and after leaving her to the tender mercies of Johnny Neff, I made for that “Big Tent,” and I never had such a good time in my life! I didn’t have to go anywhere else to meet my old friends, for under the shade of that “Big Tent” I met faculty, alumni, students, and even “Uncle Henry.” In fact, everybody but poor old “Buzzard Pete” and the “Co-eds” were there.” (read more) Notes: 52
everyday-cutlery: LOL by C. Bruesch Notes: 55
aconeyisland: Bruce Davidson, USA. NY. Central Park. 1991. Cherry blossoms, reservoir near jogging track. Notes: 11
nevver: From Space Notes: 700
k-a-t-i-e-: Isle of Wight Festival, 1969 David Hurn Notes: 696
unexplained-events: This Man States He Is A Time Traveler and Is In The Picture Of The Gettysburg Address “Andrew D. Basiago, 10, at Gettysburg, PA, on November 19, 1863, after being sent there from 1972 by DARPA’s Project Pegasus via a “plasma confinement chamber” in East Hanover, NJ. Andy is the boy standing to the left in the foreground of the image. He is wearing the large shoes that were given to him by Gettysburg cobbler John Burns after he walked into Gettysburg barefoot and shivering in the brisk autumn air after arriving from the future. Andy says that this image was taken shortly after President Lincoln arrived on the dais to deliver the Gettysburg Address.” He said that he was a part of a group of kids from the 60’s and 70’s that participated in this time travel. It was a DARPA project called Project Pegasus. Some form of teleportation project. Basiago stated that the knowledge of the future was used to alert future US presidents including both of the Bush’s and Barack Obama.  Basiago said that met future President Barack Obama in 1982 when he was attending UCLA and Obama, then a student at Columbia University, was visiting former classmates at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Basiago claimed that Obama, then age 20, already knew that he would one day be president. Basiago also said that in 1972 he was rewarded for his good work at DARPA by being sent back in time via a wormhole to 1863 to witness Lincoln’s historic Gettysburg Address speech. Notes: 1710
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nevver: How to bend light Notes: 1627
mpdrolet: Warsaw William Hüber Notes: 253
kaching: Inspired by the dramatic improvements in New Yorkers’ health and well-being after he banned smoking and junk food, as well as large sodas, salt, trans fats, Styrofoam food containers, and loud earbuds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that the NYPD is organizing a Food Felonies Unit (FFU) to further combat the proliferation of food crimes. (via NYPD Food Felonies Unit to Help Make Better Food Choices) Notes: 3
mpdrolet: Neighborhood residents in front of Tony’s, looking west from Knickerbocker Avenue & Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, 2010 from A Product Of Our Environment Will Steacy Notes: 166