by Eric Franklin on March 13, 2009
Don’t you love it when somebody takes a solved problem and re-solves it in a much more intensely satisfying and laborious way? Witness the “Corkscrew Designed by Rob Higgs,” a steampunkish mechanical marvel for opening and pouring wine.
[via American Winery]
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by Eric Franklin on September 24, 2008
The American Society of Magazine Editors has published their Cover of the Year Finalists. I love the Eliot Spitzer cover for New York Magazine.
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by Eric Franklin on August 12, 2008
Literature: The image of Franz Kafka as a saint and a recluse is turning out not to be true. A new book explores Kafka’s porn collection and how it may change academic readings.
Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
Architecture: I absolutely love the way that light and color interplay on the Planar [...]
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by Eric Franklin on June 2, 2008
Brandon Keim recounts the essence of a talk by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran given at the World Science Festival.
The essence of art is, arguably, metaphor, and its practitioners are especially prolific — and metaphor is just a convenient shorthand for the connection of unlinked cognitive phenomena. That’s exactly what appears to happen in the minds [...]
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