Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Oct 30, 2009, 10:59 pm
It was an experiment in linking grassroots activism with the political machine using new technology, and it is being studied by wonks around the world. Hundreds of artists and designers expressed sup...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Oct 29, 2009, 4:42 pm
Staff of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre let the chimps watch the burial of Dorothy, an elderly chimpanzee, so they could come to terms with her loss. From Times Online.
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Oct 19, 2009, 2:59 am
Michael Leddy coined the wonderful expression 'dowdy world' to describe glimpses of bygone times that occasionally pop up in old movies, television shows, or anywhere at all. His definition: �...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Oct 8, 2009, 1:07 am
Sitting in her little house near Tarbes, in the French Pyrenees, Marie-Pierre Manet-Beauzac is talking about her ancestry. For most people this would be agreeable, perhaps even pleasurable. For the ...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Oct 3, 2009, 11:21 pm
I'm calculating what I would have to sell to get my hands on one of these. This is the Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk, made of "Vintage Cigar Leather", whatever that is. The blurb reads: Craft...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Sep 14, 2009, 1:00 am
I’ve just had a thoroughly good time reading Stella Gibbons’ ‘Cold Comfort Farm’, and marvelling that a satirical novel published in 1932 could still be so much fun, long after the sources of ...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Sep 1, 2009, 5:42 pm
Originally uploaded by finsmal...Low & Slow. A quality I sincerely admire in photographers is something I call "a disciplined eye". I suppose I mean an ability to seek out and find pictures in the...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Aug 22, 2009, 12:39 am
I will shell out an exorbitant amount of money to see a Dali exhibition (there seems to be one every five years or so), based on an assessment of how many pictures it contains of that period before 19...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Aug 13, 2009, 5:23 pm
"If they were alive today, what speakers would Max Beckmann or Edvard Munch buy"? I know I've asked myself this questions thousands of times. Question no longer. The Altec Lansing Expressionist B...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 24, 2009, 2:05 am
A daguerreotype made public last week is believed to be the only known image of Phineas Gage (1823-1860). Gage was a 25-year-old foreman, fit and well-regarded. His crew were digging a railroad bed n...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 13, 2009, 1:28 am
Another glance at Jerry Van Amerongen's Ballard Street. Other Ballard Street posts here.
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 12, 2009, 2:01 am
When we use the adjective 'classical', we mean to suggest certain qualities possessed by the classical Greek and Roman worlds: restraint, symmetry, clarity and seriousness of purpose, harmonio...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 8, 2009, 2:09 am
From Jerry Van Amerongen's Ballard Street.
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 7, 2009, 5:47 pm
It was socialists who saw the dangers of Communism first and most clearly. In 1918, at the dawn of the Soviet era, Karl Kautsky, who had personally known Marx and Engels in his youth, wrote a diatribe...
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 7, 2009, 2:05 am
A piece of urban sculpture or just a heap of pallets left in the street? Whatever. It's lovely nevertheless. Seen outside a factory off Sydney Road, Brunswick.
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jul 1, 2009, 5:35 pm
gibber /jibbr/ • v. speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock. n. such speech or sound. gibberish /jibbrish/ • n. unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense....
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Sean Payne posted an article on Sign Language - Jun 30, 2009, 2:08 am
A real zeitgeist piece in the New York Times: Assembling the “Transformers” creative team took more convincing. Like Bay the screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (“Star Trek”) were re...
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