TOUCH

Work and play at the New York Association of the Blind in NYC. via City Museum of New York

WWI.

These bleak images reveal some brazen & necessary design work. Note : long wool scarf, Damn the War signage, winter fur protection, and crude wooden screen – erected to deprive the enemy artillery spotters a longer view along this obviously long stretch of road. images link to source via flickr

N.A. INDIANS.

Phenomenal photographs of North American Indians presented by the Denver Post. In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 to document North American Indians. The benefactor, J.P Morgan, was to receive 25 sets of the completed series of 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs entitled The North American Indian. Curtis set out to photograph [...]

B L A S T

Blast it up! Inspired and insulted by Italian Futurist Marinetti, English artists created their own movement. & their own publication, Blast Magazine 1914-1915. …English artists initially embraced Marinetti but later rejected him to start their own Modernist movement, Vorticism, manifesting elements of both Cubism and Futurism. Two members, painter Wyndham Lewis and writer Ezra Pound, [...]

HORTICULTURE ARTIFACTS.

Ghostly belongings of the gardens. Items pictured : Olden woven iron chair, golden posey holder, sullen star burst chairs & sparkley rhinestone posey holder. via Smithsonian Horiculture Artifact Collection

MN – CHEER LEADER.

Give me an *M* for *MEN* cheer leaders! And another *M* for Minnesota! 1. 7 male students in an M shaped formation as part of a gymnastics exhibition on the lawn in front of Goodsell Observatory.2. 12 male students in an pyramid formation as part of a gymnastics exhibition on the Bald Spot, with Gridley [...]

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