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Dieter Rams Radios for Braun

Dieter Rams Radios for Braun radios home history electronics

Three radios designed by Dieter Rams for Braun between 1959-1963. While you’re at it, why not brush up on Rams ten principles for good design. (via annelinnting)

The Prague astronomical clock turned 600 this week, and why not celebrate one of the worlds most complex clocks with a craaaazy projected animation. I walked past this clock almost every day in 2004, wish I could have seen this first-hand. Projection work by Macula. (via kottke)

By Christopher on October 15, 2010 • animation astronomy clocks history Prague projection

High-end playing cards, then and now

Stop by Christie’s on October 19 for your chance to bid on a complete set of Renaissance silver playing cards made in 1616 by Michael Frömmer in Augsburg, Germany. It is the only known complete set in the world and is estimated to sell for $150,000-250,000.

High end playing cards, then and now home history games cards

Out of your range? Check out the new Sentinels playing cards by theory11. Only $6.00/deck.

High end playing cards, then and now home history games cards

(via history blog and ffffound respectively)

By Christopher on October 13, 2010 • cards games history home

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1938

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1949

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1958

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1967

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1973

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1978

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1987

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

1998

Once a year since 1936 Ria Van Dijk shoots herself serial Holland history guns documentary automatic

2006

The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize.

And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins. This series documents almost every year of the woman’s life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times. At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery.

(via lens culture)

By Christopher on October 10, 2010 • automatic documentary guns history Holland serial

Visualizing One Million

Visualizing One Million infographics history books

One Million by Hendrik Hertzberg is a new edition of a 1970s book that helps the average joe comprehend just how large one million is. Each of its 200 pages has 5,000 dots and occasionally individual dots are highlighted for their statistical significance. (via fastco)

By Christopher on October 5, 2010 • books history infographics

Twenty million pixels of the Birth of Venus

Twenty million pixels of the Birth of Venus website technology history art history

For four months only HaltaDefinizione is offering an interactive gallery of 10 masterpieces photographed with their high-definition technology. Up to 1,000 photos are stitched together to create each work, allowing you to zoom in and examine centuries old paintings millimeter by millimeter. Ooh Paul Biro can use it to hunt for some latent Boiticelli thumbprints!

By Christopher on October 3, 2010 • art history history technology website

The first digital camera

Kodak’s first digital camera designed in 1975.

It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device. This playback device incorporated a cassette reader and a specially built frame store. This custom frame store received the data from the tape, interpolated the 100 captured lines to 400 lines, and generated a standard NTSC video signal, which was then sent to a television set.

(via today and tomorrow)

By Christopher on September 14, 2010 • cameras digital electronics history technology

Photos from Vietnam

A collection of stunning and tragic photos from the Vietnam War by photographers Horst Faas, Henri Huet, Sal Veder, Rick Merron, Bill Ingraham, John Nance, and Nick Ut. Be forewarned there are a handful of pretty difficult images.