Posts tagged history

"Back To The Future" - Irina Werning, Photographer

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

Before and later. Brilliant. (Via)

“Lucia in 1956 & 2010, Buenos Aires” (Image © Irina Werning)

Gene Roddenberry's Original Pitch For 'Star Trek'

What we now know and love as Trek is recognizable even in this, its earliest incarnation on the page. If anything, this document gives us an indirect peek into exactly what becomes of a TV series project once it enters the creative and budgetary grist mill that is the network programming development process. (Via)

To boldly rewrite… like so many have done before.

Wired: Death Of Film – Last Roll Of Kodachrome Processed

They gave us those nice bright colors…

Chicago Magazine: Top 40 Chicago Words — Our Contributions To The English Language

It’s not all about “Da Bears.” Just a taste from the article:

• 1. jazz: The American Dialect Society’s “word of the 20th century.” The first instance of “jazz” in print referring to America’s native music appeared in the Tribune on July 11, 1915. The most recent lexicographic research says “jazz” meant “energy” or “pep” before that, and it probably traveled from California minor-league baseball to a banjo player named Bert Kelly, who started up a band in 1914 in Chicago, where the word caught on.


• 2. skyscraper: “The ‘sky-scrapers’ of Chicago outrival anything of their kind in the world,” said the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper in 1888—the first print usage of “skyscraper” to refer to buildings at a time when tall Chicago edifices included the 130-foot Montauk.


• 14. southpaw: A left-handed person, especially a pitcher in baseball. Popularized by Finley Peter Dunne. Chicago sportswriters at the turn of the 20th century also provided the first recorded uses of “hit-and-run,” “pinch-hitting,” “home plate,” and “slugger.”
  


• 29. asswipe: First print appearance in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March (1953).
  


• 37. dagnabbit: “Darn it!” First print usage in the Tribune on August 21, 1933.
  

We Choose The Moon (dot org)

For the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, you can re-experience the entire mission online in real time.

Space nerd porn.


(Photo: NASA)