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Archives for 2011

Polo Grounds, 1916

February 7, 2011

Army-Navy football game 1916

Army-Navy game, Polo Grounds, New York, 1916. (via)

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: football

What to Write

February 7, 2011

“Write about the thing that frightens you most.”

— Marsha Norman

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: quotes for writers

Book Cover of the Day

February 5, 2011

Brilliant cover art for Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Designed by David Pearson for Penguin’s Great Ideas series, vol. 3 (2008). (Via Flickr.) Perfect.

Filed Under: Books, Design Tagged With: book covers, David Pearson

JFK, 1960

February 5, 2011

Kennedy

New York City. October 19, 1960. (via)

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: JFK, journalism, politics

1937 All-Stars

February 5, 2011

All-Star Game, July 7, 1937, Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg. (Via. Colorized version here.)

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: baseball

Hemingway in Paris, 1923

February 4, 2011

Photo by Man Ray. (Centre Pompidou.)

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: Hemingway, portraits of writers

A painter’s card

February 3, 2011

Painter's business cards

Letterpress business cards for a painter. Designed by the painter’s brother, James Prunean. Great design. (via)

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: business cards

Quote of the Day

January 31, 2011

Sargent in his studio

“Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend.” Sargent in his Paris studio, 1885. (Source. Via Exit Lines.)

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: John Singer Sargent, painting, quotes

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