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'What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.'----- Virginia Woolf

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Chris Marker's workbook for the creation of La Jetée (1962).

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Milena Bonilla, Noises, 2007

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That the earth is round has been proved (1878).

A useful reminder in Alonzo Reed’s and Brainerd Kellogg’s Higher lessons in English. A work on English grammar and composition, in which the science of the language is made tributary to the art of expression. A course of practical lessons carefully graded, and adapted to every day use in the school-room (New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers, 1878).

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pronunciation | quAn-‘trel

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Untitled, 2009 by Pedro Cappeletti

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valie export - glasplatte mit schuss (1972)

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Entr’acte, 1924

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Jozef Sedlák - Kurz Sebapoznania, 1980

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World’s oldest animation

You are looking at a GIF of a phenakistiscope, a 19th-century revolving paper disk imprinted with a series of drawings, which was spun so as to produce a moving image. The device was invented around 1840 by Joseph Plateau and it is the world’s oldest animation. The disk above is one of the oldest to survive and it shows the remarkable resemblance to our modern GIF: they both create motion where there is none. It is simply mesmerizing.

Gif: this is the source of the 21st-century gif (of a 19th-century phenakistiscope).

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Norma Shearer (Montréal 1902 – Los Angeles 1983)  in Pretty Ladies, 1925

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Debbie Harry and Ramones art director Arturo Vega at the Punk Magazine Christmas party in 1976.