Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Agitprop Through Time
A bit more artistic than modern-day supreme court or academic agitation-propaganda...
Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas. Secretariado de Propaganda. de Valencia. Secretariado de Propaganda ?Donsentir?s tu esto? Ayuda a la evacuaci?n.
Rough Translation: "Unified Socialist Youths. Secretaryship of Propaganda of Valencia. Secretaryship of Propaganda. Aid the evacuation."
[C.N.T.] Comite de Defensa. Secci?n de Propaganda CNT AIT FAI campesionos; a las armas para conquistaria la libertad. y abrir los surcos de la sociedad futura.
Rough Translation: "To the arms for the conquest the freedom and to open the furrows of the future society."
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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Tampered Voynich Manuscript and Other Strange Scripts
"Evidence of text retouching on f1r," by Jorge Stolfi, stolfi, last updated 22 July 2004, http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/04-07-15-retouching/.
Was the Voynich Manuscript been tampered with centuries ago? Dr. Stolfi thinks so
It has long ben suspected that the Voynich Manuscript was modified in some way after it was first written.
That conjecture was often made about accessory items: the colored paints that were applied to the drawings, the page numbers, the bits of European script (such as the "michiton" text and the Zodiac section month names), and the various "key sequences".
In the new high-resolution color scans made available by the Beinecke Library, one can now see clear evidence that the main text of the VMS was itself touched-up or corrected at a later time.
Evidence of Tampering
A page from the mysterious Voynich Manuscript itself...
For those interested in unreadable works (besides tdaxp, heh :) ), there's also
Roch Script
Old European Script
Easter Island Script
And, of course, the one and only Codex Seraphinianus
tdaxp flickr tags: scripts, seraphinianvs
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
The Art of Jia Lu
Accidentally obtained a copy of the June 2005 edition of Art World News. Along with Mary Taglieri, the work of Jia Lu caught my eye.
Halo, Oil Painting, 1996
Streaming Wind, Oil Painting, 2001
Lamplight, Oil Painting, 1998
Resting, Oil Painting, 1996
The artist was daughter of a political prisoner, accused "sprouting revolutionist," and veteran of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
Huh.
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Soviet Realist Homeland Security
"I Thought We Won the Cold War," by Edward, Obsidian Wings, 7 June 2005, http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/06/i_thought_we_wo.html (from Daily Kos).
"Compare and Contrast," by Armchair Generalist, Liberals Against Terrorism, 8 June 2005, http://www.liberalsagainstterrorism.com/drupal/?q=node/1361 (from Caerdroia).
No, "Zoviyyet Realizt Homeland Zequritee" is not a Muslimgauze song.... nor is it a splinter group from Zoviet France it's the latest attempt to drive liberals insane
Yup, insane
What the hell is going through people's minds? Have they no sense of history? Sorry, forgot I was talking about the United States education system..
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