Best Tool Chest Ever

This creator of this tool box is an example to all those who leave their tools where they fall. Mr. Nag Take note.

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Dark Side Of The Loom

Seen at Reddit

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Animated Anatomies

Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as anatomical flap books. These publications invite the viewer to participate in virtual autopsies, through the process of unfolding their movable leaves, simulating the act of human dissection. This exhibit traces the flap book genre beginning with early examples from the sixteenth century, to the colorful “golden age” of complex flaps of the nineteenth century, and finally to the common children’s pop-up anatomy books of today.

Animated Anatomies was curated by Valeria Finucci and Maurizio Rippa-Bonati with the assistance of Rachel Ingold and Meg Brown.


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Spitalfields Nippers

The nippers were photographed by Horace Warner in 1912.

Little is known of Horace Warner and nothing is known of his relationship to the nippers. Only thirty of these pictures survive, out of two hundred and forty that he took, tantalising the viewer today as rare visions of the lost tribe of Spitalfields Nippers. They make look like paupers, and the original usage of them to accompany the annual reports of the charitable Bedford Institute, Quaker St, Spitalfields, may have been as illustrations of poverty – but that is not the sum total of these beguiling photographs, because they exist as spirited images of something much more subtle and compelling, the elusive drama of childhood itself.

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Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson

GONZO – a graphic novel biography of Hunter S Thompson from SelfMadeHero on Vimeo.

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Judy Gelles Photographs: 4th Grade

Fourth graders from an inner city school tell their stories….who they live with, what they wish for, what they worry about, and their dreams for the future.
Each child is standing in front of the school door.

So young to have so many worries.

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Radiation Dosage Chart

Learned lots from this I didn't know before.

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Riding on a Tramcar Through Belfast

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The Architecture of 13,000,000 Pounds of Opium Production

Here are some iconic images of the opium receiving/production/distribution center in Patna, India, which claimed to produce some 13,000,000 pounds of opium juice annually. They were taken by the Bengal Commissioner Lt. Col. Walter S. Sherwill. Much of the product was exported to China where there was heavy demand for it.

The Examining Room

The Mixing Room

The Drying Room

It’s also interesting to consider these grand, temple-like opium factories alongside contemporary spaces of drug production: the foreclosed tract homes that house America’s meth labs, or the tunnels carved out as part of the U.S.-Mexico border smuggling wars. 

Link Via Edible Geography
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