tingilinde

on the creation of the modern santa

Nast's pro-Union drawings during the Civil War...

 

 

jean shepherd fans take note

The history of the  leg lamp Shepherd make famous in  In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.  It made it into The Christmas Story and more recently into Ted Lasso. 

 

looking for a miracle

This piece on the fall of democracy in the US by Mike Peterson

a tip of the hat to Anne

 

curious art

from spilled liquids

 

 

 

what do you do with a huge supply of lego bricks?

And it's your job to build..

 

on mazes

One of those curious New Yorker pieces.

snip

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Fisher didn’t yet have official stationery, or even a typewriter, so he submitted his proposal as a handwritten letter. His design was circular: a brick path, set in a lawn, that formed seven concentric rings winding toward a sundial in the center. At first glance, it seemed to replicate the traditional Christian pavement labyrinth, the most famous example of which is found in the nave of Chartres Cathedral. Medieval labyrinths of this kind aren’t puzzles; there is only a single path, arranged in a snaking pattern of concentric folds, and to process along it to the center is to participate in a physical allegory of the soul’s progress through life and toward salvation. But at Greys Court a maze walker—or aspirant, to use the technical term—encounters a junction within seconds and has to make a choice. Fisher cunningly combined the appearance of the old Christian labyrinth with the function of the puzzle maze, whose solution, taking its cue from Runcie’s metaphor, involves turning away from the center initially, to journey around the entire periphery.

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street art

a nice piece of work

 

underground architecture

Metro stations built during the Soviet era.

 

winning halloween pumpkin decorating yesterday

 

a jwst pumpkin

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