Faëry Font Friday
Ok, so this is a total cheat. Today’s Font Friday is “font” as in “fountain”: in this case, a font created and guarded by faeries. I came across the poem when I was looking for font-related words that start with “f,” and I thought it was interesting.
Peddlers, jackhammers, whistles: Historian Emily Thompson lets you hear the sounds of life in 1920s New York City
By Brett Tomlinson from the December 4, 2013, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly Peter Murphy In her freshman seminar, Emily Thompson (Princeton Graduate School ’92) plays records on old phonographs to provide an authentic sound. The streets of New York City in the late 1920s featured a cacophony of sounds — some old, many new. […]
Vintage Crime Scene Photos Superimposed on Modern NY Streets (Warning: Graphic)
By Chris Knight from fstoppers.com: Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has done a beautiful job pulling historic crime scene photos from the New York Daily News archive to blend them with photographs of the same locations today. For those who live in New York now, it may be easy to forget just how rough the […]
Bigger and brighter ‘super moon’ lights up night sky – in pictures
By Jonny Weeks from guardian.co.uk: We round up some of the best images of the ‘super moon’ – an annual event when the moon’s elliptical orbit brings it closer to Earth. A so-called super moon, caused when a perigee moon coincides with a full moon, is visible over Mexico City. NASA scientists say it appears about […]
“See America with the WPA” Posters
From formerdays.com: WPA posters from the Library of Congress, this time telling us to get out and see America! Source Source Source Source [Silly note– the day after I posted this a Jeopardy question had a picture of this fountain and you had to identify the city! You see, this is good for […]