Whitman Recites
Jim Clark provides an aniation of the only known recording of Whitman's voice.…
Letterpress
A story about one publisher's quest to publish beautiful books with letterpress. A lot of the images in the video—type cases, fonts, galleys, a tub of hot metal, platen presses—raised vivid impressions for me. I could almost smell the printer's ink and see my father standing at the…
Tyson recites Whitman
One of my favorite Whitman poems from one of my favorite people. The web site for the Hayden Planetarium charcterizes Tyson as a "science communicator." That may be so, but I think that this clip and so much more of what I've seen of Tyson show that "wonder communicator" comes…
A lovely image from Walt
> "The sidewalks are littered with postcards from God." Walt Whitman — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) June 28, 2014 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/statuses/482864573888749568]…
In my end is my beginning...
> Sometimes I encounter evidence that I've learned something over the years. This confuses me, since I thought I knew everything back then. — Anil Dash (@anildash) April 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/451959849937813504] Yesterday I was surprised to find evidence not necessarily that I've learned something but that my…