2023-06-02
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The building under construction c1968. Precast concrete elements ready to be lifted into place.
Preston Bus Station. One day I’ll visit.
The link is to the set- this is the specific image.
2023-04-28
The Whitlock Dozaloda brochure cover. From tractors.fandom.com (I know!!):
Whitlock Dozaloda: An original 1960s Fordson engined that was fitted with a large Dozerblade and Backhoe
This image is from the cache of a now-sold listing of the manual from Gibbard Tractors, “Specialists in Original Tractor Sales Brochures & Manuals”.
2023-04-05
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Large video screens showing - and a crowd watching - the funeral of Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland, by Mark Power / Magnum Photo (via How to study photography online in i-D by Vice)
(Source: Vice Magazine)
2023-01-30
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Illustrations from the patent granted to Seymour Cray and Maurice Roush for the cabinet design for the Cray 1 supercomputer, 1976, via Mini Museum, who will sell you a board from one of the machines for about $30.
See also: Cray-1 Computer System Brochure, 1977, as a PDF.
(Source: patents.google.com)
Once again, adding context to a post, this time from Vault Of The Atomic Space Age.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in a Throwback Thursday post, captions this:
A Cray-1 supercomputer arrives at the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center in May 1978
Oddly, this is a scan of a (slightly wonky) page, which does make the photo easier to track as it makes its way around the internet. That said, I’m not so interested that I care to track down the book (especially as the chances are it’s a LBL internal pamphlet).
2023-01-27
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“The Rank Empire”, a diagram of the parts of J Arthur Rank’s UK film conglomerate post WW2, from the BFI’s National Archive, via Robin Baker on Twitter.
(Source: twitter.com)
2023-01-19
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From A Failed Entertainment by Alessandro Calabrese:
Taking 21 images from the (original, non-copy) author’s archive and feeding it into Google Reverse Image Search, then subsequently reprinting those “similar” finds on transparency and then finally layering them atop the original image, Calabrese has created what he deems a failure on several levels- failure at authorship, failure of the original image’s right to status-from personally rejected images, failure of narrative…, and lastly… failure of image-language to communicate representation outside of black noise and its latent potentiality.
Perhaps inevitably, I found this image buried in a Tumblr post with other work and use Google Image Search to find a larger version to post on its own.
(Source: americansuburbx.com)
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Der Kluge Reist Im Zuge (The wise travel in the train), 1958. Hans Thoni, 1906-1980. Poster.
This looks enough like a doodle on newspaper that I wonder how well it would have worked as an advert, although on the other hand I don’t think colour printing was common enough at the time for it.