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A sip of water | more surreal posts

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geared up

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Stay in your lane

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Reels of data tape at Los Angeles County’s computer center in Downey, California, 1976. Photo by Cal Montney.

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What an odd sign to have on-hand

Wonderful!

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PANTHEON, Canaletto, 1742

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

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#fountain pen #travel #old time #old world #Photo of the Day #style #vintage #beautiful images #images #fashon20’ #fashion30' #fashion40' #things with character #mood #color day #elegance #men outfits #elegant #fashion #look sharp #elegant notes #Gallery Inspiration #nice little things #accessories

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#Good morning #razor #shaving #straight razor #accessories #important detail #style #charm #gentleman #elegant notes #look sharp #Gallery Inspiration

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“Douglas Bader Bailing Out” — art by Frank Wooten.

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Douglas Bader, lost both legs, kept flying, was a POW, kept escaping, and got the most undisciplined RAF squadron, cynical Canadians, into fine order

Squadron Leader Douglas Bader (center) and fellow pilots of No. 242 Canadian Squadron admire the nose art on Bader’s Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, October 1940.