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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Our November Lookbook
It's here! Our November Lookbook! Filled with heaps (over 50 pages) of talent and holiday gift and decorating ideas from our holiday-themed market at Poppytalk Handmade. Click on the image (above) to enlarge or visit our page at issuu.com to view. (All items are clickable to each vendor's virtual table). Happy browsing!
An Awesome Book of Thanks!
An Awesome Book of Thanks! from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.
Remember that Awesome Book that Andrea introduced us to last year? Well author, Dallas Clayton has now written a new book called, An Awesome Book of Thanks! It comes out November 11th but you can pre-order it now, or read it for free if you’d like.
veryawesomeworld.com
New Covet Garden Issue
The latest issue of Covet Garden is out featuring some wonderful terrariums, which I can never get enough of. How about you? Click here to see more.
Hindsvik: Vintage View-masters
Contributor post by Daniel and Valeria of Hindsvik
A few weeks ago we did a post on our blog of vintage view-masters and reel scans and wanted to share some more scans and some history with you! Using a slide scanner, we captured some of these images and although the whole 3-D effect is lost, they are still some captivating stills!
The view-master has stemmed from two photographers who had invented devices for viewing stereo images. Together they had the idea of updating the old-fashioned stereoscope by using new Kodachrome 16-mm color film which had recently been available.
While a view-master disk holds 14 film slides, there are really only 7 pairs as two film slides are being viewed simultaneously. One for each eye, thus simulating binocular depth perception.
In the 1940's, the US military recognized the potential for using View-Master products for personnel training and purchased 100,000 viewers and nearly 6 million disks from 1942-1945.
View-master had merged and signed with many companies and now belongs to Fisher-Price. Despite it's long history and many changes in model and material, the same basic design of the disks and internal mechanism has persisted throughout ensuring that every desk ever made will work in every model
produced!
- Daniel and Valeria
A few weeks ago we did a post on our blog of vintage view-masters and reel scans and wanted to share some more scans and some history with you! Using a slide scanner, we captured some of these images and although the whole 3-D effect is lost, they are still some captivating stills!
Alice in Wonderland, 1952
View-masters have been around since 1939, and although is now considered a children's toy, it was originally marketed as a way for viewers to enjoy stereograms of colorful and picturesque tourist attractions.
The view-master has stemmed from two photographers who had invented devices for viewing stereo images. Together they had the idea of updating the old-fashioned stereoscope by using new Kodachrome 16-mm color film which had recently been available.
While a view-master disk holds 14 film slides, there are really only 7 pairs as two film slides are being viewed simultaneously. One for each eye, thus simulating binocular depth perception.
In the 1940's, the US military recognized the potential for using View-Master products for personnel training and purchased 100,000 viewers and nearly 6 million disks from 1942-1945.
View-master also eventually signed with Disney, and began it's Personal Line, which included a 35-mm camera for it's users to make their own View-Master disks. Although at first they were successful, the line would be discontinued within 10 years.
produced!
- Daniel and Valeria
Fresh From the Oven: Chris Burnett
Chris Burnett is a design student at CalArts where he's been working hard, making rad stuff, and skateboarding. His style is all over the place and well executed. Chris is also displaying experience with typography, which is often hard to come by in student work.
He's often collaborating with previously posted student, Bijan Berahimi. Together these two worked with another CalArts buddy, Pierre Nguyen, to create this surreal, rearrangeable, and magnetic environment for the Antione+Manuel workshop.
More from Chris:
- Portfolio
- Blog
“ALL DRESSED" — T-Shirt/Art Show & Store Grand Opening
Vancouver's own illustration collective, "the Jupiter Project", has just announced their latest art show: “ALL DRESSED”; it features original designs and illustrations created by the artists, and locally screen-printed onto T-shirts for men, women and children. The show is happening this Friday in Gastown (Vancouver). See below for details.
Location: "TEES.ca" at 227 Abbott Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 2010, from 7PM - 10PM
Admission: FREE
Website: jupiterproject.ca
Monday, November 1, 2010
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