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Moyers is back baby!

When Moyers’ show, The Journal, stopped a year or so ago, it was a very sad day. He is like a Grandfather that has all the answers. And when he doesn’t, he knows where to go and who to ask to find them. He makes all the issues understandable, and boils them down with common sense questions. Like Jon Stewart, but without the tongue and cheek. Together, you get a double dose of reality in today’s crazy media circus.

Here is a great discussion with Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality.

Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Amazingly detailed colour photos of Russia circa 1910…

I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time…

My house is 100 years old exactly, which would put it the same age as this collection.

See the whole collection via The Boston Globe online, bostom.com. 

Stamp semaphore as early emoticons via Poemas del río Wang…

The secrets of the language of stamps. For all those who are in the situation of Hero and Leander, and similarly to them can only exchange secret signs about the feelings of their hearts, here we publish the secrets of the language of stamps. If the stamp stands upright in the upper right corner of the card or envelope, it means: I wish your friendship. Top right, across: Do you love me? Top right, upside down: Don’t write me any more. Top right, thwart: Write me immediately. Top right, upright [once more again???]: Your love makes me happy. Top left, across: My heart belongs to someone else. Top left, upright: I love you. Bottom left, across: Leave me alone in my grief. In line with the name: Accept my love. Same place, across: I wish to see you. Same place, upside down: I love someone else. – We hope that besides the inventor of the “new language” there would be other persons too who would eventually use it.

Poemas del río Wang: The language of stamps.

The Sword Maker

Here is another craftsman at work. Just brilliant. It truly makes me happy that people still possess these type of skills. No machine or robot could ever reproduce this type of quality.

Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker from Etsy on Vimeo.

The prequels, sadly summed up…

While this is only a snippet of the entire review, it pretty much sums up why the Star Wars prequels completely and utterly fail. Continue Reading →

National Film Board of Canada Vignettes

Now these bring back some serious memories. After seeing the The Log Driver’s Waltz I had to look for this one in particular because I remember it so vividly.


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The Log Driver’s Waltz

It’s amazing how remembering an old song brings back memories. This one bring me back 20+ years. I couldn’t believe how much I was smiling!
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Late for work…

Goerge Lucas Strikes Back

Return to Sender website is up…

First off, let me start by saying that I do work for all sorts of clients. As a designer, I feel anyone has a right to decent design and the access to it. As a freelancer/owner, I enjoy having control over who I work with. It feels good having this freedom.

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