Ready for this one?In the 1970's there was a gentleman named Eric Weber who was better known as the Pick-Up guru who produced a record based on his "best selling" books.Here's the shtick:PICKING UP GIRLS MADE EASY will teach you a whole new system for picking up girls -- a system that is so complete and so absolutely foolproof you'll soon be picking up girls automatically!!! Absolutely everything is spelled out for you... Picking up girls can be as easy as opening a beer! And the more you listen to the album, the better you'll get. It's INCREDIBLE!"The album features...
Words then and now
http://melange.ian-williamson.com/http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/23/a-fashionable-melange-of-english-words-1887/
Animated Pop-Up Books
Welcome to the world of animated pop-up books, a healthy new genre which combines the art of paper engineering with animation.Above is an entertaining trailer for Il étais une fois [Once upon a time] by Benjamin Lacombe, where a white rabbit guides us through a sampling of childhood classics.Below is one of the wildest things I have seen - a pop-up book of papercuts transformed into a stage for a projected animation.Of course the big boys are getting involved as well. Here is one for JP Morgan Chase, titled ‘Change’ by Psyop and the folks at Google Sandbox have created this beauty:Screenshot from an animated...
The History of Education and Textbooks
The History of Education and Textbooks Infographic by Classroom Aidh/t Stephen's Lighthouse
Search Lights
Filament Mind is the brilliant installation that graces the new Teton County Library in Wyoming.It is a real-time visual rendering of the "collective curiosities and questions of Wyoming library patrons". It is composed of over 5 miles of fiber optic cables and has 44 LED illuminators that connect the visual data to 904 text labels with each fiber optic cable corresponding to a Dewey Decimal call number! The 1,000 categories represented by the Dewey Decimal call numbers are displayed on the north and south walls.Here's how it works:When a search is performed by a library patron, the Dewey Decimal call numbers of...