Japanese Anatomy Scrolls
This is comparatively old webernet news, but I finally saw these Japanese anatomy scrolls, and as a fan of macabre medical illustrations (I loves me my Mütter Museum), they’re quite compelling. (The blog post in turn links to the original files on a Japanese website.)
An Amazing Album of Historic San Francisco Photographs
I just stumbled across an amazing album of historic San Francisco Photographs on Calisphere. I’ve been digging through online collections of old SF photos, and most are muddy, brittle, damaged. These are in amazing shape and startling clear. Some favorites: Market, Post, and Montgomery (this is where the Montgomery BART station is now): Market, Kearney [...]
Smith and Foulkes – Cinema Told Through Bunny Rabbits
Just found out about these folks in a review of the upcoming Animation Show 4. In America, they’re best-known product was the Coca-Cola ad “Videogame,” which I unabashedly love. In clicking around their filmography (requires a little digging), I found “Grand Classics” an engaging retelling of the history of cinema with a rabbit as a [...]
Steven Heller Angries Up The Blood
In catching up with various media after my vacation, I got around to listening to a BusinessWeek Innovation Podcast with graphic design luminary Steven Heller on The Business of Web Design. Given the podcast’s title, I wasn’t at all ready for the conversation that occurs, wherein Mr. Heller blathers a misguided, outdated, outmoded, and mostly [...]
BULLITT Chase Scene Geocoded
Considered by many to still be the best car chase ever filmed, the classic scene from Bullitt has long amused San Franciscans as automobiles seemingly leap through wormholes to get to totally different parts of the city. Now a fan has provided a real-time-map to go along with the chase, so you can see just [...]
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