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In the spring and summer of 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein took portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). Twenty-one years later, Feldstein went back, and this time he brought along writer Stephen G. Bloom to document people’s stories. The Oxford Project (Welcome Books) is the remarkable portrait of a small town“virtually untouched by both the vitality and vulgarity of urban America.”
Ben Stoker: Both his parents have passed away. |
Hunter Tandy: Ashton Kutcher is his second cousin |
Pat Henkelman: Cleans houses, has lunch and a cup of tea, watches CNN and has a nap. |
The 2,500-square-meter facade is constructed from the firm’s 3D Prosolve 370e (PDF) modules. These modules are coated with a special pigment that, when hit by ambient ultraviolet light, reacts with urban air pollutants, breaking them down into less noxious compounds like carbon dioxide and water. The pigment itself remains unchanged, which means the modules can keep purifying the air for as long as a decade, or until their coating wears off.Via Holy Kaw!
I have fully considered the project of these our modern Daedalists, and am resolved so far to discourage it, as to prevent any person from flying in my time. It would fill the world with innumerable immoralities, and give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them. You should have a couple of lovers make a midnight assignation upon the top of the monument, and see the cupola of St. Paul’s covered with both sexes like the outside of a pigeon-house. Nothing would be more frequent than to see a beau flying in at a garret window, or a gallant giving chaos to his mistress, like a hawk after a lark. There would be no walking in a shady wood without springing a covey of toasts. The poor husband could not dream what was doing over his head. If he were jealous, indeed, he might clip his wife’s wings, but what would this avail when there were flocks of whore-masters perpetually hovering over his house? What concern would the father of a family be in all the time his daughter was upon the wing?– Joseph Addison, Guardian, July 20, 1713
Spectacular rainbow-colored seahorse at Hamburg, Germany. Photo by Zanthia |
Leafy seadragon in the Georgia Aquarium. The leafy seadragon can best manage to hide itself easily among the plants and is therefore rarely eaten. Photo by lecates |
Pipefish are related to seahorses and seadragons, albeit a little like the ugly cousin of the family.Pipefish have longer, straighter bodies with tiny mouths. There are about 200 known pipefish species in the world. Photo by Stephen Childs |
No traffic lights. No traffic signs. No painted lines in the roadway. No curbs. And 26,000 vehicles passing every day through a traditional village center with busy pedestrian traffic.And it seems to be working for both pedestrians and vehicular traffic!
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image © moon hoon |
diagram of the hotel complex image © moon hoon |
Sometimes there are inscriptions on the back (“Susie, 7 years old”) but more often they come to me stripped of all identity. I sit in my studio and speculate about the nature of the photographed people’s lives. I will, of course, never know the truth, so I feel it is my job to give them new lives and rescue them from the obscurity they would be headed for were it not for me, humble servant of the arts. I try to invent an altogether different identity for them but of course, in the final analysis these works are more about me than any of the hundreds of anonymous individuals who appear in my work.
With a deadline to hit and a cell phone running on 8% battery, it quickly became clear that my plan to quietly slip out and return home to fulfill my work obligations would be a near impossible feat. I was trapped.Read the story at Esquire
Ruins of the Ludlow Colony in the direct aftermath of the massacre |
1941 The state introduced its first three-year license for both chauffeurs and standard operators, adding space on the back to list criminal convictions and a change of address. |
2013 The newest licenses, made of polycarbonate materials, are laser engraved, not printed, and feature a pair of black-and-white portraits that help make the licenses more difficult to counterfeit. |
“The recipes are for sauces to accompany mutton, chicken, duck, pork and beef. There’s even a seasonal version of the chicken recipe, charmingly called “hen in winter”. We believe this recipe is simply a seasonal variation, using ingredients available in the colder months and specifying “hen” rather than “chicken”, meaning it was an older bird as it would be by that time of year. The sauces typically feature parsley, sage, pepper, garlic, mustard and coriander which I suspect may give them a middle eastern, Lebanese feel when we recreate them.