Beatles fans debate who carried the band's torch in the '70s - GOOD
How do you define "Beatle"?| GOOD
Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows turned into a prolific career. He gets paid now, but to begin he worked “in exchange for tickets to the shows, and for beers”. King has worked on posters … Continue reading "REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King" The post REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King appeared first...| Flashbak
“Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello… Welcome to the Nirvana form letter.” – Nirvana’s first newsletter, 10 October 1991 In 1991, Nirvana band members Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic signed the band’s first fan newsletter in black ballpoint pen, green felt tip marker and red felt tip marker. … Continue reading "‘NIRVANA ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS, NOT ROLE MODELS’: Nirvana’s first fan newsletter, 1991" The post ‘NIRVANA ARE TRAI...| Flashbak
Beginning in 1979, Camilo José Vergara has been returning year after year to take photographs of Fern Street in Camden, New Jersey. We’ve shared more from his project to create a visual archaeology of the USA with his pictures of Vyse Street in New York City’s South Bronx and 65 East 125th Street in Harlem. Now … Continue reading "The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019" The post The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019 appeared first o...| Flashbak
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror is a 1994 British/American feature-length documentary film written and directed by Ted Newsom (The Naked Monster; 100 Years of Horror series; Ed Wood: Look … The post FLESH AND BLOOD: THE HAMMER HERITAGE OF HORROR Review and free on Tubi and YouTube appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
How do you define "Beatle"?| GOOD
Filmmaker Richard Baylor talks about the counterculture and distribution network of the 1990s, death row, Ipswich, and the ‘video nasties’.| Headpress
RICHARD BAYLOR is a British underground filmmaker of the 1990s. DAVID KEREKES looks at a new collection of the films and the DIY era that shaped them.| Headpress
I wanted to join in Women in Translation month, so was looking around my shelves for possible candidates – and chose Follow Your Heart (1994) by Susanna Tamaro, translated from Italian by Avril Bardoni. I picked it up in a nearby| Stuck in a Book
There is something very reassuring about Calvin Trillin’s non-fiction. In the UK I think he is best known, if at all, as the author of Tepper Isn’t Going Out. That was my first encounter with his work, after Thomas/Hogglestock correctly thought| Stuck in a Book
My second (and final?) contribution to this year’s #ReadIndies is an autobiography that was sent to me by CB Editions – Flickerbook (1997) by Leila Berg. It was a very canny choice of reiew book to send, given my recent| Stuck in a Book
My final slot on A Century of Books turned out to be 1990, and I decided to read The Inn at the Edge of the World by Alice Thomas Ellis, which I bought last year in the Lake District. When I| Stuck in a Book
Among Dr. Seymour Papert’s vast contributions to knowledge, his framing of educational decision making through the lens of instructionism vs. constructionism may be the most profound, useful, and enduring. Any discussion, debate, controversy, or concern about education policy or decision about pedagogical approach is based on the personal stance of how you believe learning occurs. […] The post Instructionism versus Constructionism appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
Perestroika and Epistemological Politics Keynote address at the World Conference on Computers in Education at Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia July 1990 By Seymour Papert[*] MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, E15-313 Cambridge, MA 02139 During the week of the conference you have been immersed in exciting and focused discussions about actual uses of computers in real educational settings. […] The post Seymour Papert Would Like a Word with Ron DeSantis 33 years ago appeared first on The...| The Daily Papert
The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and ch...| The Daily Papert
Documents and recollections from the early days of 1:1 computing in schools. The post Laptops appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
Photo of Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke’s Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025) Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on sci…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
"Primarily a mystery, but it turned out to be so much more ..."| Writers Review
(continuation of a previous post) If you ever have a hit on your hands, my advice is to take notes. Living in the whirlwind of blinding success is a little like experiencing your own wedding –…| John Battelle's Search Blog
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest is a 1995 American supernatural slasher film directed by James D. R. Hickox... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
Creative duo and club stalwarts Martin Green and James Lawler take a utopian yet realistic look at 90s Queer nights in Britain, at Open Eye Gallery| 1854 Photography
From November 2011 through July 2012 I wrote the “Past Pieces of Toronto” column for OpenFile, which explored elements of the city which no longer exist. The following was originally posted on December 2, 2011. Albert Britnell Book Shop taken between 1966 and 1972 by Ellis Wiley, City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 124, File 2, … Continue reading "Past Pieces of Toronto: Albert Britnell Book Shop"| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of The Darling Buds of May - the books by H.E Bates and the original TV Series - so, when planning a holiday to France this year, there was really only one place I wanted to go: Brittany, to find the filming locations of 'A Breath of French Air'...| My Thrifty Life by Cassie Fairy
Small portables: Libretto and PSION 5MX These tiny machines were something I dreamed of during my childhood. I got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto much later. It was maybe 10 years ago when I needed to read diagnostic data from my old car (a Skoda Octavia I 1.6MPI with an automatic transmission – not having a manual transmission was considered heresy even back then in Czech Republic and I always enjoyed being weird). A friend of mine lent me the original diagnostic device together with this ...| 80-90s Computing
How to Make a 1990s House Look More Modern Have you been hankerin' for floral window valances stuffed with plastic grocery bags for extra volume? Or maybe| www.kylieminteriors.ca
by Betty Rose Dudley, Common Lives / Lesbian Lives 51, 1994 The post Getting Down at the Fat Girl’s Ball (1994) appeared first on Fat Liberation Archive.| Fat Liberation Archive
Marilyn Manson’s biggest crime was being boring, at least musically, and nothing encapsulates the emptiness of the band and the eponymous figure’s music better than 1996’s “controversial” second al…| DVS Press
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