No Granny Square Afghans Here

knottedneon, the Instagram account of Toronto artist Aynsley Grealis, shows that crochet is no longer just a hobby for the oldsters. The Pizza Rat bag above, modelled on the NYC rodent who took the internet by storm a few years ago, is available as a pattern.

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A Walk Along The Berlin Wall Before It Was Demolished

When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, opening the passage between East and West Berlin to all citizens of both countries, it came as a complete surprise. This footage was shot by a traveler in Berlin during the summer of 1989.

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Toddlers Protest

A very specific sub-genre of the early Soviet educational posters dedicated to the health of mothers and children: a baby rally. It’s literally a picture of babies and toddlers rallying with demands for better childcare and parenting practices written on their placards.

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US Wealth Imagined As a Pizza Party

This is what US wealth looks like when  a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza is used as a stand-in for the United States. (You’d probably go home hungry.)

• 1 person gets 30 slices
• 9 people get 3.7 slices each
• 40 people get 0.75 slices each
• 50 people get 0.05 slices each

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Frontier Psychiatrist

 

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Everybody To Kenmuir Street - Trailer

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rushed to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.

The End Of The Golden Age Of Jazz?

I first posted this story in 2014 and am reposting it because Sonny Rollins has died and he was the last surviving member of this iconic photograph by Gordon Parks.

One morning in August 1958 fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians gathered together on the steps of a Harlem brownstone to sit for one of the most celebrated ensemble jazz portraits ever taken. Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire magazine, took the picture for the magazine's 50th anniversary issue. Jean Bach, a radio producer of New York, recounted the story behind it in her 1994 documentary film, A Great Day in Harlem. The film was nominated in 1995 for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

  

Forty years after the historic shoot Life magazine hired photographer Gordon Parks to recreate Kane's picture, and invited the surviving musicians to gather once again on the same brownstone steps on 126th Street. Just eleven musicians had survived: Gerry Mulligan, Marian McPartland, Milt Hinton, Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Hank Jones, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Chubby Jackson, Eddie Locke and Johnny Griffin—as well as Taft Jordan Jr., the small child who had sat beside Count Basie on the curb nearly forty years previously. All but Sonny Rollins turned up.

These are the artists who appeared in the original photo:

Red Allen Buster Bailey Count Basie Emmett Berry Art Blakey Lawrence Brown Scoville Browne Buck Clayton Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge Art Farmer Bud Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn Benny Golson Sonny Greer Johnny Griffin Gigi Gryce

Coleman Hawkins J.C. Heard Jay C. Higginbotham Milt Hinton Chubby Jackson Hilton Jefferson Osie Johnson Hank Jones Jo Jones Jimmy Jones Taft Jordan Max Kaminsky Gene Krupa Eddie Locke Marian McPartland Charles Mingus Miff Mole Thelonious Monk Gerry Mulligan

Oscar Pettiford Rudy Powell Luckey Roberts Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing Pee Wee Russell Sahib Shihab Horace Silver Zutty Singleton Stuff Smith Rex Stewart Maxine Sullivan Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dickie Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins Mary Lou Williams Lester Young

Sweet Little Octopus

It looks like a cartoon character.

 

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Birdie

 This bird dies when it’s time to air out your home.

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Twilightof the Velocipede

Before Linotype revolutionized typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand. Typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity.

Women learning typesetting at Berlin’s Lette-Verein, 1902 — Source.

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