TechToxic – Vintage Disk Drive Factory

A (carcinogenic?) San Jose, California disk drive factory, circa 1956.

It’s turtles all the way down

A game of Rashomon, anyone? – – – – – – – – – - In A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988), Stephen Hawking tells the story of an elderly woman who confronted Bertrand Russell at the end of a lecture on orbital mechanics, claiming she had a theory superior to his. “We [...]

Hello, I Must Be Going

Groucho Marx, as Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, in Animal Crackers (1930): Spalding (speaks): Well I’m certainly grateful for this magnificent washout, eh, turnout, and, eh, now I’d like to say a few words… (sings) Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just [...]

Jason Salavon – Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades

“The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.”