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Hinman Collator and Blink Comparator

The Hinman Collator, an early optical collator, was an opto-mechanical device for comparing pairs of documents for differences in the text. Documents that appeared similar were said to “collate”. The collator resulted in rapid advances in the study of literary works.
Invented by Charlton Hinman in the late 1940s, the device used lights and mirrors to superimpose images of the two documents so that differences in text alignment or wording stood out. This resulted in huge improvements in speed and efficiency compared to the traditional cross-referencing of texts by eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_Collator
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/images/public/sb53pl03.jpg
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9706/fieldnotes.html
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/images/public/sb53pl07.jpg

A blink comparator was a viewing apparatus used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky shot using optical telescopes such as astrographs. It permitted rapidly switching from viewing one photograph to viewing the other, "blinking" back and forth between the two taken of the same area of the sky at different times. This allowed the user to more easily spot objects in the night sky that changed position. It was also sometimes known as a blink microscope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator

Sarmoung Brotherhood

In the account, the motto of the Sarmouni is said to be "Work produces a Sweet Essence" (Amal misazad yak zaati shirin), work being not only work for God and for others but also self-work. In relation to this, it is maintained that just as the bee accumulates honey, so the Sarmouni accumulate, store and preserve what they term "true knowledge" (which is equally seen as existing as a positive commodity and associated with the spiritual gift or energy of Baraka). In times of need this is released once more into the world through specially trained emissaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmoung_Brotherhood

http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/search.php#Sarmoung

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/sarman.html

Clayton Cubitt

Momentos and Long Portraits:
http://vimeo.com/3479810

Donnie Darko

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/d/images/donnie-darko-8.jpg

http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/donniedarko_wideweb__470x2990.jpg

http://thehostess.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/donnie_darko-frank.jpg

Hiroshi Sugimoto

http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/seascape.html

http://www.mitterrand-cramer.com/Artists/Sugimoto/index.php

http://www.alexlockwood.net/2008/06/04/imagining-our-environment-hiroshi-sugimoto/

Attila Csörgő

http://www.c3.hu/~acsorgo/angol/projektek_terkep2.html

http://www.manystuff.org/?p=1744

http://vernissage.tv/blog/tag/attila-csorgo/

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/6017

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/index.html

http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/weegee/weegee.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee

Werner Nekes

Film before film - What really happens between images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO27DVdlg5M&feature=PlayList&p=4D0751D81B4121BA&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.vasulka.org/archive/4-30c/AfterImageNov77(3002).pdf

Johnny Flash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-6dVlbbfY

http://wernernekes.de/00_cms/cms/front_content.php?changelang=2

http://wernernekes.de/00_cms/cms/front_content.php?idcat=73

http://www.c3.hu/perspektiva/nekesen.html

Shinichi Tsuchiya

http://www.mapmag.net/works.html

http://www.artnet.com/artist/425630414/shinichi-tsuchiya.html

http://www.obrist-gingold.com/shop/artist-12.html

Bannerman's Island

http://www.oboylephoto.com/bannermans/index.htm

http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/bannerman/bannerman.html

http://www.hudsonriver.com/bannerman.htm

Bernd and Hilla Becher

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=2179&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04spring/stimson_paper.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/03/bernd-and-hilla-becher-cataloguing-the-ominous-sculptural-forms-of-industrial-architecture

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1777/bernd-and-hilla-becher-german-partnership-1959-2007/

Thomas Ruff

http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2079953/k.8CFB/Thomas_Ruff.htm

http://www.re-title.com/artists/Thomas-Ruff.asp

http://pontdesarts.pixnet.net/blog/post/22255428

http://www.foammagazine.nl/index.php?pageId=9&foto=31

http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/18/selected_works_1.htm

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2008/03/a_conversation_with_thomas_ruf.html

http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/164

Only one is known to have hit a person

"Only one is known to have hit a person. Around 1 p.m. on November 30, 1954, a meteorite tore through the roof of a house near Sylacauga, Alabama, across the street from the Comet Drive-in Theatre. The rock, about the size of a softball, caromed off a console radio and clipped Ann Hodges as she snoozed on her couch, bruising her left hip and wrist. She was hospitalized to recover from the shock."

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/08/earth-scars/stone-text/3

William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
W. Blake, from "Auguries of Innocence"
http://suzanavaz.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/live-district-line-south-kensingtonvictoria-5pm/

(...)
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
(...)
http://dps.holtof.com/blake/collected/chap-09.html

(...)
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire
At the end of 6,000 years is true as I have heard from Hell
The whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy
Where as it now appears finite and corrupt
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment
But the first notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged
This I shall do by printing in the infernal method
By corrosives which in Hell are salutary and medicinal
Melting apparent surfaces away and displaying with infinite which is hid」
If the doors of perception were cleansed
Everything would appear to man as it is ...infinite
(...)
http://pixeledena.free.fr/dead/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/427146/The-Marriage-of-Heaven-and-Hell-William-Blake

http://dps.holtof.com/blake/

An Inquiry into Blake's Method of Color Printing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/jsviscom/inquiry/enhanced/index.html

Harold Pinter

American Football

Hallelullah!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.

We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.

It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!

Hallelullah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.

Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.

We did it.

Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.

http://www.haroldpinter.org/poetry/poetry_football.shtml

http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12847331

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter

László Moholy Nagy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNt39WJQqjg

http://drawingrooms.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html#1743710629232661433

Rupert White

http://drawingrooms.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html#4181213695528049175

http://www.rupertwhite.co.uk/videos.htm

http://www.rupertwhite.co.uk

Louise Bourgeois

http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/throbbing-pulse

http://paperdolldancers.blogspot.com/2008/09/guggenheim-visit.html

Interview:
http://voidmanufacturing.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/louise-bourgeois-interview/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

Walton Ford

http://theingoing.blogspot.com/2009/01/walton-ford-burton-meets-audobon.html

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Walton_Ford.html

http://therig.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/walton-ford/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Ford

Crossing the North Sea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwhJIhSVc

Encyclopedia Mythica

Cassiopeia:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cassiopeia.html

Image Gallery:
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/gallery/

Bestiary:
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/articles.html

Greek People:
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek_people/articles.html

http://www.pantheon.org/

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William Shakespeare

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/407600.html

Giordano Bruno

"Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam
(Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brunostatue.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

"A confession has to be part of your new life."

"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."

"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wittgenstein1930.jpg

Pierre Hébert

Between Science and Garbage (Pierre Hébert/Bob Ostertag):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVk0QqY9A6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdviUBSlH-I

Pierre Hebert/Bob Ostertag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GycDrv9aqlU

The Statue of Giordano Bruno:
http://www.pierrehebert.com/index.php/2008/07/09/80-the-statue-of-giordano-b

http://www.pierrehebert.com