Category: Daily Links

A pdf. What you can find in the stomach of a Laysan albatross. via things magazine.

worth a look if only for the turtle: ‘Gottwald commissioned the Polish baroque painter, Daniel Schultz the Younger, to render drawings he made himself of the contents of his wunderkammer into engravings, which was undertaken in about 1665.’

‘What started as a journey to forgotten places of closed down heavy industries in Germany’s former economic heartland, now is a photographic coverage of both closed down and operating sites throughout Europe.’

All about the hornbook. The what now?

Interesting; tends to confirm my impression that Second life is overhyped. It just seems so clear that sooner or later something like Second Life is going to be the future, so everyone wants a part of it, but it probably isn’t going to be SL itself.

Grant Hamilton’s real-life abstract polaroids.

‘…the fabulous Picture Australia archive. Searching on the topic of ‘new south wales police dept,’ I once again wonder why I bother with photography. It seems unfair that an anonymous police photographer can be as good as Avedon and Arbus’

Art made out of books.

“Black ABCs”, a 1970 set of alphabet wall cards for US public schools designed to help build self-esteem and provide role models for African American kids.

Interesting interview and some spectacular photos of the inside of drains.

via Martin Klasch, lots of Soviet cigarette packets.

Surprisingly gorgeous antique microscope slides.

The extraordinary stick charts used by Polynesian islanders to navigate around the vast expanses of the Pacific. Make sure you click the ‘view full text’ link.

via Coudal. Geoffrey Mann’s remarkable sculptures of the forms traced out by birds and insects in flight.