A long article illustrating the process of sound recording and record manufacturing from Wonders of the Modern World, a children’s … More
Month: September 2011
Sep 29 2011: An Ink And Wash Sketch On The Theme Of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ (Date Unknown)
The image above happened to be in a frame I bought to re-use a few years ago, but having removed … More
Sep 28 2011: A Signed Photograph of Uma Thurman as Emma Peel in The Avengers (1998)
Rummaging around the Cattle Market turns up some unexpected things: if it’s not an Ethiopian vellum painting of a Madonna … More
Sep 27 2011: Twelve BBC Sound Effect Library Archive Discs (BBC Aberdeen, 1940s/50s)
Earlier this year, in the Jack Goldstein exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, a series of coloured vinyl records containing the sounds … More
Sep 26 2011: Pakistan Modernism from The Pakistan Yearbook, 1969 (National Publishing House, 1969)
After two posts of advertising reflecting the aspirations towards modernity of Pakistan’s rulers during the 1960s, here are a whole … More
Sep 25 2011: More Advertising from Pakistan Year Book 1969 (National Publishing House, 1969)
As promised, a follow up to yesterday’s gallery of advertising from The Pakistan Year Book (1969) featuring a further 26 … More
Sep 24 2011: Advertising from Pakistan Year Book 1969 (National Publishing House, 1969)
This gallery of adverts is taken from the pages at the beginning and end of the Pakistan Year Book (1969), … More
Sep 23 2011: How to Regulate the Sex of Your Child Before Birth (from Virtue’s Household Physician, c.1924)
I’m not sure there’s much that can be usefully added to the advice given below, in which some curious assumptions … More
Sep 22 2011: The Anatomy of the Head, or Opening the Mind (from Virtue’s Household Physician, c.1924)
Earlier posts here have featured anatomical plates and models from various volumes of this 1920s American home medical reference series, … More
Sep 21 2011: The Blacks by Jean Genet (Translated by Bernard Frechtman, Grove Press, 1960)
In case anyone were thinking about coming along to the Reading Genet session this evening (I think places are still available … More