Visual Scrap #10

🧥 Coat sale in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1936. More of this kind of unhinged (yet it makes sense) advertising, please.

Bits deliver information, but costliness carries meaning.
From Alchemy by Rory Sutherland, "Why Signalling Has To Be Costly" p. 117

👯 Graphic sidenote: This book seems to have two different covers/subtitles. I'm pretty sure they're the same book. Seems to be a tamer and a saltier version. I have the saltier version with the gnome flipping you off on the cover.

🌷 Researching floral motifs for a project. Thinking about reverse engineering Novisto's Fiore (center image) which both displays flowers in an unusual way and amplifies their scent.

🤷 Possibly a Serious Possibility – cool article on how even when we think we mean the same thing, sometimes we do not. If someone says that somethings is a "serious possibility," how likely do you think it is to happen? That and other "lurking weasel" phrases.

Documentaries of my childhood:

🧞‍♂️ Pee-wee as Himself is what's going to get me to sign up for HBO. It just came out May 23 on @StreamOnMax, trailer here. Grab your tissues.

🔳 I watched Mr. Polaroid on Edwin Land and the creation of Polaroid film and the SX-70 camera. I knew a good bit about this story, but what I didn't know was that he employed a lot of women in R&D roles. And while Land had the idea, they figured out how to do it. It's a PBS American Experience episode, and you can watch in full here.

👩‍🚀 Sally, NatGeo's documentary about Sally Ride, trailer here, is out June 16 at 9/8c on National Geographic and will stream globally the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

🛞 "They are loud. They are dangerous. They are illegal. But sideshows also leave behind something beautiful — at least when seen from above. In his project “Intersect,” photographer @winniwintermeyer catalogues the after-effects of this staple in Bay Area culture.

🔴🪵⚫️ The only interior aesthetic I care about right now.