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The Internet Archive Part 3 - The Prelinger Archive

Continuing our Internet Archive series, today we'll look at the Prelinger Archive, part of which lives on the Internet Archive among its many collections. The Archive was founded by Rick Prelinger in 1983, dedicated to collecting "ephemeral films" (defined as advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films -- things that are not often collected and cataloged by scholars). In 2002, the Prelinger Archive (then consisting of over 60,000 films) was acquired by the Library of Congress. Some of those... READ ON

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Graffiti Art

A couple of weeks ago, cleaners painted over this Banksy mural worth an estimated... READ ON

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Image Macros: Oddballs and Advanced Forms

Throughout the week, I've looked at Image Macros: Intro to LOL Cats, "Invisible" LOL Cats, "I Can Has Cheezburger?" LOL Cats, and I'm in Your X, Y'ing Your Z. Today the series wraps up with some unusual Image Macros that have caught my eye. "Bucket" Image Macros are based on this deeply evocative two-panel... READ ON

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Image Macros: I'm in Your X, Y'ing Your Z

Okay, now that I've spent the first three days of this week talking about LOL Cats, it's time to move on to something marginally more advanced: the "I'm in Your X, Y'ing Your Z" Image Macros. According to several web sources (which are so not-work-safe I won't link them), this genre of Image Macros started with the statement, "I'm in your base killing your d00ds" (that last word being a Leet spelling of "dudes"), from a classic video game. Non-gamer translation: "You lose." This Image Macro genre... READ ON

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LOL Cats: I Can Has Cheezburger

Over the past few days, we've shown you several flavors of LOL Cats. Today's focus, the famous "I Can Has Cheezburger?" LOL Cats (the premiere LOL Cats blog is named for this image). The cheezburger cats appear to have started with this... READ ON

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Image Macros: "Invisible" LOL Cats

Yesterday we introduced you to LOL Cats, today it's time to dig deeper. It's hard to create a firm timeline of how these images evolved, but it appears that one of these two images created a subgenre of LOL Cats, which I refer to as "Invisible" LOL... READ ON

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Image Macros: Intro to LOL Cats

I've long been interested in Image Macros, which are best described as web based images with text superimposed on them. Okay, that's a poor description. Here's an... READ ON

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The Human Clock

On the heels of yesterday's Yugo Nakamura Appreciation Day featuring interesting online clocks, I thought I'd share my favorite online timepiece: The Human Clockâ„¢ (view the clock here). The Human Clock features photos for every minute of the day containing (sometimes obscure) references to the current time. The photos are sent in by clock viewers, and there are many photos available for each minute of the day -- below the main photo, you can click on other photos from around the world. But... READ ON

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Signs of Life

The Signs of Life blog is a community art project documenting unusual signs from around the world. Most of the signs are wacky or contradictory (one of my favorites: On this spot in 1765 nothing happened), but others are touching (I want to hold your hand). Often the signs show cultural divides, or provide evidence of unexpected problems that necessitated signs (see: caution: frogs may be HOT!). The best part of the blog is that you can submit your own signs. Maybe it's time to submit Stop Hammer... READ ON

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The entropy of household objects...

Always leads so ineluctably to the junk drawer. Growing up, we had several, each packed beyond capacity with thankless ephemera--twine, half a suit of clubs, sporks, legal pads perfectly good but for some reason maligned, twin-less batteries, everything. When my kindergarten teacher wanted us to come to class with a time capsule, I should have merely lifted one of those babies off its hinges. Here, finally, is a series of photos by Richard Jenkins, paying tribute to still life with life's shabby chorus of... READ ON