I need a full-size version of this poster, too. I’ve got my “LBJ FOR THE USA” 1964 campaign poster hanging in my living room, but this Senate poster is badass.
I love that “Roosevelt” was a succinct political position back in the 40s.
We love illustrator Benoît François’s new animated project, Stories of Philosophies. As he describes it, each episode is composed of two parts, each of which presents a philosopher reacting to the presence of an object in the manner of his well-known philosophical vision. The following features René Descartes and Nietzsche. (And follow animator Damien Florébert Cuypers on Tumblr)
Oh man. I’ve been waiting for something like this for so long. I’m just mad someone with more talent got to it before I could.
The Soup Sophie Scholl
(I made this for Ali.)
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
While the new strategy, known as “Look Back Before You Act,” has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won’t be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything.
Instead, citizens have been told they can just find a large-print, illustrated timeline of historical events, place their finger on an important moment, and then look to the right of that point to see what happened afterward, paying especially close attention to whether things got worse or better.
“You know how the economy is not doing so well right now?” Professor Elizabeth Schuller of the University of North Carolina said. “Well, in the 1930s, financial markets—no, wait, I’m sorry. Here: A long, long time ago, way far in the past, certain things happened that were a lot like things now, and they made people hungry and sad.”
“How do you feel when you’re hungry? Doesn’t feel good, does it?” Schuller added. “So, maybe we should avoid doing those things that caused people to feel that way, don’t you think?”
31% of the men who graduated from Oxford in 1913 were killed in World War I.
The prime minister of England and the German chancellor both lost a son, as well.
I’m not sure if this should be classified as fun…but it certainly is astounding.
Faces at the Civil Rights March on Washington
In 1963, when civil rights leaders announced plans for a March on Washington, President Kennedy initially opposed the idea, fearing a large demonstration in the capital could turn violent and jeopardize the civil rights bill. After a meeting with the leaders, he was persuaded that the march was “in the great tradition” of American protest.
Among the crowd of over 200,000 who gathered on August 28 for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom were:
-Sidney Poitier, Harry Belefonte, and Charlton Heston on the Lincoln Memorial
-Children, including the young girl above with a banner
-Musicians Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
-Author James Baldwin and actor Marlon Brando
-Former National Basketball Association player, Bill Russell
-Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Actor Lena Horne
-Former National Baseball League player, Jackie Robinson with his son
More striking images from the crowd can be found here.
The myth of pop culture — Adorno’s myth — is that it is not dialectical. The truth is that it is. Like high art, pop, too — contra Adorno — has a conversation both with its sources, which it revises and transforms, and with cultural authority as a whole, which it also revises and transforms.
In the excellent new book The Myth of Popular Culture: From Dante to Dylan, cultural critic Perry Meisel makes a powerful case for the blurring of the line between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” culture. (via curiositycounts)
Above: Ernest Hemingway and wife #3 Martha Gellhorn.
