Early Russian Color Photography
Over on The Twitter @scratchbomb submits this awesome find of early Russian color photography from Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The photos were taken during 1909-1912 and again in 1915 to document the state of the nation before the start of WWI and the Russian Revolution. He developed a three plate photography system that would take three negatives of the same scene yet each was shot through a different filter. Projecting the images through the correct color light could recreate the full color composite. I imagine this was not an easy thing to do.
Unless you are in the digital age. Now they can be brought to life as originally intended. The Library of Congress purchased the collection of nearly 2000 negatives in 1948. Here is a bit about how they were created and then recombined today.
And here is a self portrait of the photographer himself:
Saturday Morning Animation – Cardboard
This is a pretty sweet stop-motion animation by the dutch animator Sjors Vervoort.
(via Boing Boing)
Saturday Morning Animation – Bottom of the River by the Tom Fun Orchestra
Flat Advertising Lighters
Good ‘ol Draplin points us toward this amazing collection of flat advertising lighters over at Flickr.
Saturday Morning Animation – COMBO by Blu and Dave Ellis
Miranda July as Film Extras
Miranda July is petty incredible. She just dd a piece where she poses as movie extras for Vice Magazine (click to see four more).
Boston Public Library Travel Posters
The Boston Public library has posted an amazing collection of old travel posters on Flickr. I have seen other collections of travel posters but each one in this collection is especially top notch. Here are a few I like:
The Enamored Whale by Albert Cerriteno
What a beautiful letterpress print from Albert Cerriteno.
It is a three color 8.5″ by 11″ print in an addition of 250. It is a mere $20 bucks. That is a steal my friends. Check out the detail…
Go get it! Hurry! There are only 70 in stock as of this posting.
(via OMG Posters)
UPDATE: Sold out! If you snoozed, you lose.
Saturday Morning Animation – Muzorama
Gläce Luxury Ice Co.
Ballin‘!! Destined to be the leader in the ‘premium ice market’ – a market that DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST – Gläce Luxury Ice Co. makes ‘perfectly spherical’ 2.5″ spherical ice cubes. Because most ice that the rest of us plebeians are forced to put in our beverages contain ‘minerals, additives, and other pollutants’, the ‘cubes’ are made out of purified water so as not to soil your Appletini or fine chardonnay with an off flavor.
And don’t forget that the spherical shape of Gläce Luxury Ice “…allows differentiation for those consuming a premium drink from those with less discerning tastes.” That means that you can drop one of these babies into your 600 year-old single-malt Glen-named scotch and feel confident enough to look down your nose and scoff at anyone in the bar who has used multiple square ice cubes (*snort*) to cool their beverages. Oh, the underclasses and their shoddy cooling ingredients!
Honestly, I have nothing against spherical ice and have used the homemade variety before but did I mention that five of the Gläce Luxury Ice spheres run $40? That is $8 a piece for those unwilling to do the math. We can’t all have the superior taste that this gentleman (or this gentleman) obviously has but an eight dollar hunk of frozen water in our heavily marketed premium vodka will inform others that you do indeed have a superior palate and that you yourself are “ballin'” above those around you.
Or you can just go buy these for $16 and make all you want…
Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear (SMA)
This is a beautifully created fan-created video for the song ‘Two Weeks’ by the band Grizzly Bear. The song already has an official video but this one by Gabe Askew is just plain great.
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“How it would be, if a house was dreaming”
Just. Plain. Trippy.
Created by urbanscreen
The QLOCKTWO Clock by Biegert & Funk
I dig the QLOCKTWO text-only clock from Biegert & Funk. It comes in six colors and six different languages. It will only set you back about $1,300. Might as well get two, right?
Or you can get the iPhone app for $.99.
(via BoingBoing Gadgets)
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