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Sunday, January 16th, 2011 10:56 pmI'm sure those of my readers with actual Employment will not be at all interested in the Ptak Science Books blog (syndicated on LJ as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
ptak_science). Others, especially those curious individuals who are unable to resist the urge to click an intriguing link, will be drawn into a fully-illustrated seething maelstrom of SHEER FASCINATION.
I know I was.
I think I happened upon the site about four hours ago. In those four hours I have read about WWII infographics; Beethoven's last and weirdest composition; the use of blank space in early woodcuts; manuals for how to be a well-behaved Girl; salvage rates for bullets in Europe, 1944; how rare it is to see a non-symbolic view beyond a window in Renaissance art; plaques designed to convey information to whoever's reading them 10,000 years from now; future hair trends as shown on classic pulp SF covers ...
The illustrations (mostly scanned, many of them available via the blog's shop) are truly inspirational. So are the commentaries.
Here's Mr Ptak's overview of W. Clarissa Christeen’s The Universal Color Keyboard for Body Building
Go! read!
ptak_science). Others, especially those curious individuals who are unable to resist the urge to click an intriguing link, will be drawn into a fully-illustrated seething maelstrom of SHEER FASCINATION.I know I was.
I think I happened upon the site about four hours ago. In those four hours I have read about WWII infographics; Beethoven's last and weirdest composition; the use of blank space in early woodcuts; manuals for how to be a well-behaved Girl; salvage rates for bullets in Europe, 1944; how rare it is to see a non-symbolic view beyond a window in Renaissance art; plaques designed to convey information to whoever's reading them 10,000 years from now; future hair trends as shown on classic pulp SF covers ...
The illustrations (mostly scanned, many of them available via the blog's shop) are truly inspirational. So are the commentaries.
Here's Mr Ptak's overview of W. Clarissa Christeen’s The Universal Color Keyboard for Body Building
...what Ms. Christeen absolutely does have going for her is her artwork, which is, in its own special way, quite sensational...Her philosophy is at the very least odd, though it may spring from a synestheisa. Or not.
Go! read!
