On my Twitter stream this morning was this from kjell_: “The disappearance of age-old pleasures and privileges is the first unmistakable sign of progress.” -Bernard Rudofsky followed by this from Vaguery: scanning an 1850 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, just ’cause. And for the Agassiz Of course it’s convenient that Vaguery’s Twitter things have a very high … Continue reading "Cool juxtapositions"]]>
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On my Twitter stream this morning was this from kjell_:
“The disappearance of age-old pleasures and privileges is the first unmistakable sign of progress.” -Bernard Rudofsky
followed by this from Vaguery:
scanning an 1850 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, just ’cause. And for the Agassiz
Of course it’s convenient that Vaguery’s Twitter things have a very high proportion of “scanning some cool old document to save it for the world”. Still, I thought it was cool :-).
And I don’t know what the rest of you are doing this evening, but we’re going to the British Museum to see the Chinese terra cotta army (or the bit of it that’s on display there at the moment)! You never know, I might take a photo (or 200).
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