Sunday, November 3, 2013

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Women in Iran playing frame drums



Image from Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's film Half Moon shot in Iran.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Saturday, September 15, 2012

best short film done by a seagull - ever



French tourist Nathalie Rollandin came across a camera-happy seagull recently. She was visiting the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, when she set her GoPro camera down while its was recording. Before she knew it, the camera was being carried away in the mouth of an artsy gull. Once the bird was a safe distance away, it set the camera down and recorded some beautiful footage of itself flying away into the sunset.

via PetaPixel

Friday, September 14, 2012

Questioning Authority: Christopher Benfey on Dickinson Photo



Christopher Benfey, interim dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College and an Emily Dickinson scholar, provides some insight into the recent discovery of a 19th-century daguerrotype that experts believe portrays the reclusive poet as a mature woman. The only other known image of the poet was taken when she was about 17 years old and a student at MHC.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Saturday, August 25, 2012

A New Dickinson Daguerreotype?

Dickinson scholar Martha Nell Smith unveiled this image at a conference in Cleveland recently.



The new daguerreotype was purchased in 1995 (by a collector who chooses to remain anonymous) from among items of an “estate cleanout” offered for sale by a Springfield, MA, junk dealer. The buyer said he had a hunch at the time he acquired it that the woman who appears left-most to the viewer might be Emily Dickinson, and pursued several lines of inquiry to prove his theory. He began his odyssey by trying to determine who the other woman might be....much more at the Emily Dickinson Museum

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012