Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Around the Blogs in Eighty Days

(Not necessarily eighty consecutive days)

I found a terrific blog selling prints of mid-century illustrations, or artwork based on such: It's called Plan59 and the prices are reasonable.


I found my way there via Shorpy: "Always Something Interesting", where you can find more vintage photographs.

On another note, yesterday I watched "The Last Enemy", a BBC Masterpiece Theater miniseries from 2008. Benedict Cumberbatch (aha, whom I just recognized as the scoundrel Paul Marshall in Atonement) plays a young man who returns to Britain after his brother's death to find it's become a surveillance society. After his late brother's widow disappears along with a gravely ill individual he finds in his brother's apartment, Stephen slowly realizes there is a complex and devious conspiracy involving surveillance technology in which he becomes a pawn. A bit ragged at the very beginning, I was soon engrossed and completely chilled by this believable and frighteningly plausible series.

"In the eyes of the state, the last enemy is the individual." Read writer Peter Berry's interview about the series here.

Sunrise at Tybee Island - Two Views:


Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Around the Blogs in Eighty Days

Listen to podcasts about forgotten historical tales at The Memory Place. (via Freakonomics, HT Althouse).

On that same theme, News From 1930 "summarizes the WSJ from the corresponding day in 1930." )The similarities are frightening.)
(again, via Freakonomics, HT Althouse).