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Pre-Code
In 1878 there was a debate on whether a horse galloped with all four hooves off the ground. The photographer Eadweard Muybridge produced The Horse In Motion, a series of photos taken in sequence of a horse galloping, proving that centuries of art depicting horses with outstretched legs, none touching the ground, were inaccurate. A horse does have a moment when no hooves are on the ground, but it’s when the hooves are underneath them, not outstretched. Thus the a new form of art was born.As a brand new technology and art form, early film was incredibly experimental and the…
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Felicia
On May 18th of 1972, about 40 miles outside of Chicago, The Village Crier published an obituary for a ferret. Her name was Felicia, and the paper even included a photograph, her little head and paws emerging from a tube. She’s largely forgotten today, but in 1971 she was a solution to a problem in the construction of the particle accelerator they were developing at Fermilab. The researchers were encountering many issues, one of which was metal shavings and other potential obstructions in the vacuum tubes blocking the particles they were trying to accelerate. A British researcher by the name…
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Cher Ami progress report! What I had sketched is done, but the background is a bit too empty, so I’m taking a step back for a couple days to reset my problem solving brain
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Complete sketch for my current piece. I’m apparently making a series of poster for historical animals that deserve recognition 😤 1
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I’ve been wanting to make stickers that show my love for uranium glass, so I made glow in the dark stickers showing a few of the patterns found on depression and vaseline glass. This is the Cameo pattern by Hocking Glass (also called Ballerina), Georgian Lovebirds by Federal Glass, and Mermaid Royale Fan by Pukeberg Glass.