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1 — In February 1980, acclaimed street photographer Patrick D. Pagnano went on assignment to document the Empire Roller Disco and its legendary cast of partygoers. The resulting photographs, gathered for the first time in this delicious looking new book, capture the vibrant spirits, extraordinary styles, and sheer joys of Brooklyn
And other post-its.
And other noble games.
And other astonishing adventures in precognition
The sun is shining, birds are chirping, ice cream vans are jingling, and here I am cutting and pasting hyperlinks into my computer so that you can be entertained for a few minutes.
Hello, hello. Here’s this week’s link salad, featuring all the martians, lighthouses and typewriters necessary for a healthy diet. 1 — I’ve spent every spare moment of the last week exploring public domain aggregator Artvee, which draws incredible high resolution scans from multiple university and museum collections. Slightly
Yes that’s right, OutHorsed.
Hello, hello. Writing this week’s Meanwhile is an essential act, as for a few minutes it prevents me from obsessively tweaking my website. I’ve finally upgraded to Squarespace 7.1. It’s a brilliant tool for putting together a portfolio, but the lure of all those styling options
Hello, hello. Here are seven things I found – or put – on the internet in the past week. Try not to enjoy them so much you tumble down some glorious internet rabbit hole; remember you’ve still got that important thing you need to do today. 1 — I’ve updated my
Hello all! This week, I’m reverting back to a good old fashioned numbered link dump format for Meanwhile, because why the heck not? There be gold in them thar hyperlinks. So here you go, seven things I found on the internet this week: 1 — Posteritati in conversation with Akiko
I found Tanzanian artist Sungi Mlengeya’s paintings … okay so I forget where. She’s been living in my browser for six months, a monochromatic oasis of calm I’ll occasionally linger on while coasting from tab to tab. Her positive-as-negative use of space, as with Rozenn Le Gall’s
I first discovered Rozenn Le Gall’s work on the cover of Rebeka Elizegi’s excellent collection Collage by Women; a simple but striking juxtaposition of face and feet. Immediate and distinctive, her pieces are particularly well-suited to book design; just one or two carefully selected and composed elements against