Ben Samuel
Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia
Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering work on locomotion
Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Artwork by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Interview with Titanic survivor Frank Prentice
Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Philip K Dick's bizarre delusions and paranoid fantasies
While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.
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Mar 1, 20221 min read
Philip K. Dick discussing science fiction
Philip K. Dick interview (1977). Here he discusses how science fiction is viewed on a bottom rung of genres.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Imaginary Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Le Carceri d'Invenzione)
An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Walking cities - collages by Ron Herron
In the 1960s architect Ron Herron (1930 - 1994) designed collages of his concept of Walking Cities.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
An Impossible Balancing Feat (1902) Dir Georges Méliès
Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Eadweard Muybridge photography
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Motopia "a utopia for motorists" (1959)
Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1
Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.
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Mar 1, 20221 min read
Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Harry Clarke's stained glass windows
Incredibly beautiful stained glass windows by Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Etienne-Jules Marey inventor of chronophotography
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Infernal Dictionary (1818) Jacques Collin de Plancy
Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
The Snowflake Man - First pictures of snow crystals
Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.
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JG Ballard returns to Shanghai
In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.
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Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)
Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Nudes by Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.
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Ben Samuel
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Atomic bomb explosions (1946–52) taken with Rapatronic Camera
Pictures of atomic bomb explosions taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away.
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Architect Oscar Newman’s 'Plan for an underground nuclear shelter'
Architect Oscar Newman’s tongue in cheek 'Plan for an underground nuclear shelter' (1969)
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Eadweard Muybridge 'The Horse in Motion'
In June 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created a sequential series of photographs with a battery of 12 cameras along the race track
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