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H.R. Giger died yesterday.
I’ve always found his work extremely inspiring, and he had a huge impact on the way I think about visual art. RIP. Click here for the full story. Wikipedia on HR Giger from Facebook via IFTTT
The scene at the Greek festival
Taken tonight at about 8:30, at the corner of Halsted and Jackson, in Greektown. Not the friendliest street festival I’ve ever seen, but summer is wrapping up.
The map room
Here we see maps hung in the preview room before our rare books and manuscripts auction. Nice display, eh?
Creative destruction
I recently acquired two small oil paintings in an auction. I paid very little for them. They’re nice enough paintings, and certainly a deal for how little they cost, but they’re not exactly in the style of my home decor. So naturally, I got to thinking, maybe a fun thing to do would be to … Read more
It’s like the Mark Twain story about the cat and the stove, you see.
What separates the mind of a scientist (or, more generally, a rationalist) from the average person? Sent my way by Brother Doug. xkcd – A Webcomic – The Difference.