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Jellygraph
I’m a contributor to The Atlantic and a senior at Northwestern University.
On Twitter, I’m @yayitsrob.
The hectograph — or jellygraph — was a near-print process used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It could make cheap copies of original documents, usually for business or professional purposes, by transferring the image of the original to a gelatin bed with colored dye. Copies could then be made from the bed as long as the dye lasted.
Says Wikipedia: “At least eight different colors of hectographic ink were available at one time, but purple was the most popular because of its density and contrast.”
I use my Tumblr like a combination of a hectograph, a commonplace book, and a wunderkammer.
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2013-06-18
Source: twitter.com
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2013-06-15
End-of-college camping. #hdr #latergram (at Starved Rock State Park)
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2013-06-12
Once, when [Stefan] Wolpe pointed out the window of his Greenwich Village studio and exclaimed one must write for the man in the street, [Morton] Feldman looked down and saw, to his ironic delight, Jackson Pollock walking by.
— The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross. Returning to this 20th-Century New York Anecdote to End All Anecdotes for a research paper.
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2013-06-06
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2013-06-05
“Airships Are Getting So Dreadfully Commonplace.”
From the collection of the Library of Congress, via Charlie Loyd.
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2013-05-24
I, too, occasionally visit buildings in a postmodern architectural style. (at Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center)
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2013-05-15
Peak Chicago. (at Wrigley Field)
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2013-05-14
‘This unique, patented technology captures, accelerates, and concentrates wind energy, delivering superior power output at reduced costs. It also solves the major problems that have so far undermined the wind industry, such as low turbine reliability, intermittency issues, and adverse environmental impact.’ (SheerWind)(via justinpickard)
Source: sheerwind.com
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2013-05-03
All that said, it would be too easy and too neat to simply condemn the trend—to screw up one’s face and say “look at all those silly authenticity seekers, craving some mythical thing that doesn’t exist.” Rather, what the phenomenon needs is the doubled vision of a sympathetic heart and sharp-edged critical faculty. We have always sought a mythical purity, have always imagined that just over the horizon is the utter erasure of the very building blocks of modernity itself: the city; technology; the screen; the present. What texture and tenor that imagining now takes on is itself a collective utopian dream to be parsed and analyzed, a set of desires that say something profound about the day-to-day feeling of being alienated from something we have never experienced—and cannot, because it does not exist. Some weight needs to be given to a general feeling that something is missing.
— Navneet Alang, The Offline is the New Pastoral | Hazlitt
Source: randomhouse.ca
