Paul Greer

brightwalldarkroom: “Police Squad! and Top Secret! are what I clued into. We tried hard to imitate or rip off the Zucker brothers’ style of gags so the film can feel like the book feels: just packed with stuff. And fun.” —Paul Thomas Anderson, on his new film, Inherent Vice - Paul Greer

theremina: Dusk, prow of houseboat Ishallah. (at Waldo Point Harbor) - Paul Greer

drakontomalloi: Félix Vallotton - La Paresse. 1896 - Paul Greer

claytoncubitt: "The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five." –Carl Sagan (via Clayton Cubitt on Instagram http://ift.tt/1qKoyGM) - Paul Greer

Notebook Zebulon is close to the end. But there are a few corners not filled with indecipherable tiny writing. - Paul Greer

erikkwakkel: Bookmarks before browsers These four medieval bookmarks are 500-700 years old, yet they are smarter than what we use for our modern books - or even in our web browsers. Some just help you find your way back to a certain page, but others do so much more: they mark text column and line, in addition to the page. The lower one, for example, is like a computer that you program. Sliding it up and down, and turning its disk, means you will find your way back to a very specific place: the very line where you left off the day before. More information on these rare devices and how they work in this blog I wrote about them. Pics: Leiden, University Library, BPL 2001 (top); Utrecht, UB, MS 146 (bookmark labeled “B”); Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MSS I G 56-57 (heart-shaped bookmarks); and Harvard, Houghton Library, MS 277 (bottom). - Paul Greer

publicdomainreview: The maps of Piri Reis, a 16th-century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1513 he produced his first world map, based on some 20 older maps and charts which he had collected, including charts personally designed by Christopher Columbus which his uncle Kemal Reis obtained in 1501 after capturing seven Spanish ships off the coast of Valencia in Spain with several of Columbus’ crewmen on board. See more here: http://bit.ly/11fEUeb - Paul Greer

dezzoster: "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."—Vladimir Nabokov - Paul Greer

unexplained-events: Revolver Camera (1938) A colt 38 with a camera, that took a picture everytime you pulled the trigger. - Paul Greer

misstrismelee: "Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood." - Paul Greer

magictransistor: Das Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracles) Augsburg, ca. 1552. - Paul Greer

littlehorrorshop: Frankenstein, 1931 - Paul Greer

nearlya: Anouk Griffioen - Paul Greer

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Drones (HBO) “The United States has launched a huge number of drone strikes under President Obama. It’s widely accepted and extremely terrifying. Connect with Last Week Tonight online… Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: http://bit.ly/1DQzTiY Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: http://on.fb.me/YEUIwY Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: http://bit.ly/1DQzVHB Visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: http://itsh.bo/YEUHcs “ - Paul Greer

kateoplis: Diego Uchitel: Polaroids - Paul Greer

asylum-art: Street Art byDavid Zinn - Paul Greer

viridi-luscus-monstrum: ‘Genka’ illustrations by Tadanori Yokoo In 1975, graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo produced hundreds of pen and ink drawings for Genka (“Illusory Flowers”), a historical novel by Harumi Setouchi that recounts the struggles of Tomiko Hino, the wife of shogun Yoshimasa Ashikaga (1435-1490). The fanciful illustrations, which do not appear to directly reflect the content of the story, were published along with the novel in a long series of instalments in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper. - Paul Greer

West to East and Back Again, or How to Draw from the Window of a Train. - Paul Greer

tmills: I love this song and I love this recording of it. - Paul Greer

warrenellis: Two Black Holes Dancing in 3C 75 via NASA http://ift.tt/1no1WBy - Paul Greer

humanoidhistory: Astronomical illustrations from Astronomy, 1875, by J. Rambosson - Paul Greer

proteesiukkonen: I Am a Bride A short comic inspired by Finnish werewolf folklore in which it is many times the wedding couple and/or the entire wedding party that is bewitched to turn into wolves by a resentful guest or family member. - Paul Greer

Whoops. Autopost overload. Sorry. - Paul Greer

“*blank*blank*blank*, what’s all this then?” There’s nothing like the arrival of a new interesting social media thing to get people talking about talking. - Paul Greer