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Nº 032 · See

Snow, 1970

View the original at Saul Leiter Foundation ↗

Snow, 1970
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Cube twist

View the original at Bees & Bombs ↗

Cube twist

Nº 020 · Read

Looking Closely Is Everything

Craig Mod on learning to notice the world close at hand. A useful companion to a collection built around paying attention.

Craig Mod

Looking Closely Is Everything
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Fresh Guacamole

View the original at PES ↗

Fresh Guacamole

Nº 001 · Read

The Orange

A small poem about an ordinary pleasure. Read it at the foundation, where the full text and its publication credit live.

Wendy Cope; published by Faber & Faber; presented by The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

The Orange

Nº 060 · Hear

Slow Focus

A continuous selection of ambient music, drone, and ragas. Open the NTS player and let the collection acquire a soundtrack.

NTS Radio; individual artists credited by the broadcaster

Slow Focus
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Kodachrome

View the original at Fondazione Luigi Ghirri ↗

Kodachrome
A circular nineteenth-century optical toy printed with repeated figures, animals and coloured rings around a central hole.

Nº 360 · See

Loops before the GIF

The Public Domain Review / Library of Congress ↗

Loops before the GIF

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Fruit Walls

An account of walled gardens that used stored solar heat to grow fruit in colder places. An old design idea worth revisiting.

Kris De Decker / LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

Fruit Walls

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Twelve faces, no answer

Twelve pierced faces, twenty small knobs, and no agreed explanation. These hollow copper-alloy objects survive from the Roman world, but their purpose remains uncertain. Ideas range from practical tools to ritual objects; none should be mistaken for a solved mystery.

Wikipedia contributors; archaeological context from the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group

Twelve faces, no answer
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A painting with no end

View the original at Zoomquilt ↗

A painting with no end