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America’s foodways have helped shape this nation. What we eat and how we eat it reflects this country’s diverse cultures, needs, technologies and economies. The goal of The American Table is to rediscover and reenergize American food traditions. This is an invitation to delve into our past, play around a bit, and learn something about how we got to be where we are today.

http://www.americantable.org/

e.g.

Civil War Recipe: Republican Pudding (1863)

Ham Banana Rolls (1947)

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Enter the Day-Glo world of The Peculiar Manicule and explore an awe-inspiring archive of 1960s and 70s graphics. Witness mind-blowing displays of ink on paper by designers and illustrators, both known and unknown

https://www.peculiarmanicule.com

For any map fans.

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"George III may never have left the south of England or fought on a battlefield, but he explored the world through a vast collection of military maps that are now being made available online, offering extraordinary insight into the art of warfare and mapping.

Highlights include two-metre-wide maps of the American War of Independence. Known as the king who lost America, George followed the steady erosion of his hold on American colonies from the comfort of his library at Buckingham House, now Buckingham Palace."

"George III's collection of military maps comprises some 3,000 maps, views and prints ranging from the disposition of Charles V's armies at Vienna in 1532 to the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

Most notable among these are the military maps, prints and drawings collected by his uncle, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–65), particularly during his period as Captain General of the British army during the War of the Austrian Succession (1743–8) and the Seven Years War (1756–63).

The second major collection, bought by George III in 1763, was that of the military prints collected by the Italian art patron, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657). In addition to these, George III acquired hundreds of maps of contemporary conflicts, such as the American War of Independence (1775–83), and the French and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815)."

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https://militarymaps.rct.uk/introduction

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=15.321379625239835%2C16.923020850000057&z=3&mid=1D6sQZg4bjQwLmhBoeU1P-7DzeYunJrBT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst

Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favourite Movies

http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/akira-kurosawas-100-favorite-movies-2.html

http://cyberspaceandtime.com/

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Henry O. Studley (1838-1925) built this magnificent wall-hung chest while employed by the Poole Piano Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. He probably obtained materials for the chest from the firm's scrap mahogany, walnut, ebony, ivory, and mother-of-pearl. The elegant but efficient design protects the tools from damage and permits them to be identified and selected quickly.

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/tool_chest_made_by_studley.htm

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The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle is an early, key, mimeograph publication which was not only a flashpoint for freedom of speech and poetics but was also a radical example of collage and underground publishing.

http://ubu.com/vp/Oracle.html

  On 2/1/2020 at 12:25 PM, iococoi said:

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/tool_chest_made_by_studley.htm

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I wonder what tools he used for making this tool chest...

i could swear that there was a cool stuff thread, wtf, anyway...
https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints

  On 1/31/2020 at 12:35 PM, darreichungsform said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst

I never understood the hate for movie 43, I love that movie I thought it was stupid as shit n funny

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales read in Middle English

http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/

Cool and therefore interesting: an archive of old book illustrations.

This site will give you a random illustration from the collection:

https://perchance.org/old-book-illustration

Here's some background info and a link to the complete collection: http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/old-book-illustrations-download.html

recommended with BOC

http://120years.net

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120 Years of Electronic Music* is a project that outlines and analyses the history and development of electronic musical instruments from around 1880 onwards. This project defines ‘Electronic Musical Instrument’ as an instruments that generate sounds from a purely electronic source rather than electro-mechanically or electro-acoustically (However the boundaries of this definition do become blurred with, say, Tone Wheel Generators and tape manipulation of the Musique Concrète era).

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https://flashbak.com

Temporal circuit of macroscale dynamic brain activity supports human consciousness

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INTRODUCTION
Evidence from noninvasive functional neuroimaging studies has pointed to two distinct cortical systems that support consciousness. The default mode network (DMN) is an internally directed system that correlates with consciousness of self, and the dorsal attention network (DAT) is an externally directed system that correlates with consciousness of the environment (1–7). The DMN engages in a variety of internally directed processes such as autobiographical memory, imagination, and self-referencing (6–8). The DAT, on the other hand, mediates externally directed cognitive processes such as goal-driven attention, inhibition, and top-down guided voluntary control (2, 6, 9). Moreover, the DMN and DAT appear to be in a reciprocal relationship with each other such that they are not simultaneously active, i.e., they are “anticorrelated.” This anticorrelation is presumed to be vital for maintaining an ongoing interaction between self and environment that contributes to consciousness (5). Conversely, diminished anticorrelation between DMN and DAT activity has been reported in humans when consciousness was suppressed by general anesthesia (10, 11) and in neuropathological patients with disorders of consciousness (4, 12), supporting the hypothesis that a balance of the internally and externally directed systems is important for waking consciousness.

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https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/11/eaaz0087

f.i. http://onestarpress.com/book/ryoji-ikeda-test-pattern

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/28/meaningful/

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GLITCH IT GOOD: UNDERSTANDING THE
GLITCH ART MOVEMENT

http://www.theperipherymag.com/on-the-arts-glitch-it-good

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FROM XENAKIS’S UPIC TO GRAPHIC NOTATION TODAY

https://www.zkm.de/de/system/files/field_r17_file_private/2020/04/17/153822/pdf_from_xenakiss_upic_to_graphic_notation_today_zkm.pdf

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I never felt personally connected to abstraction until I happened to attend a golf equipment trade show and saw a bisected golf ball. For the first time, abstraction resonated with me as I discovered elegant formal qualities and surprising metaphorical possibilities in the unlikeliest of places, a 1.68” golf ball

http://www.jamesfriedmanphotographer.com/index.php?/projects/thumbnails/4

^they would make good techno album artworks

I've been studying Schlitze out of boredom. Some funny bits in his recent activities. But check this post, it hilariously breaks ranks with his other posts. Almost cute that he thinks this is acceptable cooking, lol

  On 7/9/2019 at 8:43 PM, Schlitze said:

Seeing the burgers in this thread directly inspires burger consumption. I had my mind set on scotch eggs before seeing the burgers in here at about about 4 o'clock.  I set to work....from the purchase of the raw materials, the creation process, all the way through to the finished article

Just please promise me you remember to toast those buns

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