Ecstasy (Svensk Film, 1933). Swedish movie poster.
Large-format posters are a rare find from Sweden, making this gorgeous Heritage debut piece a fantastic opportunity for collectors. The ethereal image seen on the poster more than hints at the highly controversial nature of the film, which caused a delayed release in America as it did not get distribution approval from the Hays office. Hedy Lamarr makes her first screen appearance in this film.
9 illustrations of deep sea creatures. Department of Tropical Research (DTR) Bermuda expeditions, 1930s. Artist: Else Bostelmann (Else Winkler von Röder).
Shigeru Hatsuyama, 1939, cover for “Rabbit and Snow” (side note I’m pretending I didn’t see flurries in Philly yesterday). Some work by this artist in the archives:
Today we are featuring animal art from Research: Design in Nature, edited
by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field
Museum of Natural History and the School
of the Art Institute Chicago in 1924. The portfolio
features over 200 leaves of plates that were printed in the Field Museum
pressroom. The drawings featured in the plates were created by many different
artists, including some of Wilkins’ students. The plates are photogravures, and
Wilkins notes that “it is possibly the best method of reproducing the soft
pleasing effects of the pencil renderings.”
Research: Design in Nature includes a wide variety of plant and animal
drawings, highlighting the design elements that can be found in nature. Today
we are focusing on mammals, including some animal poster designs advertising
taking the train to the Field Museum!
seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.
Does Firefox not count for anything?
about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.
Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.
Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.
PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.
Look.
Look.
I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just
There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just
I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)
or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and
firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.
reminder that you can import your bookmarks, passwords, browsing history, and even your open tabs from chrome to firefox, and it only takes a few minutes. it’s quick and easy. If you’ve been putting off switching, this is your sign to do it.
