The Shapes of Time
A blog of memory, change, time, space and wondrous stuff.
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Where time stood still...
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Penguin books...
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Polaroid no more: February 2008.
Polaroid has stopped production of it's films. The instant, photo systems launched by Edwin Land in 1947 have passed into collective memory sixty-one years later. With no negatives, each image was quite unique.
:: Full story, images and links
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The Beats and A Coney Island of the Mind: 1962 and 2006
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In Belfast City Library, 1963
Amongst the other scholars he was there - an old man, wrapped in an ancient raincoat, with unkempt hair - bent over his work. The books he borrowed remained unread. His notebook was made of pages torn from here and there and held together by elastic bands round a piece of strawboard. He wrote in pencil - line upon line - a lilting slant like the best Vere Foster. But this was his own language...no A or B or C or any other letterform imposed itself...no full stop or comma interrupted the flow. These were lines complete from beginning to end tracing life like the pulse of a cardiograph. In that old library I like to think he wrote his story - while keeping warm. c. Marshall Mateer, 2006
:: Belfast City Library ... and ... :: Vere Foster
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Goodbye little yellow boxes.
Those familiar litle yellow boxes are disappearing from the shelves of photography stores and chemists. After years of falling sales Kodak is changing....... So it's goodbye little yellow boxes; goodbye the yellow box road.
:: Full story and Little History of Kodak slide show...
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Astrophysicist records the stars: 2006.
Astrophysicist Don Kurtz says: "The stars have sounds in them...they ring like giant bells or musical instruments." The sounds are caused by vibrations .....Pythagoras in the 6th Century BC. suggested the idea of 'the music of the spheres' and now we can hear it...
:: Full story and listen to the stars...
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Longplayer: a piece of music 1,000 years long...
Jem Finer - banjo player and songwriter with 'The Pogues' - is creating time/music:
:: Listen to Longplayer which began on 1st January 2000 and will play until 3000 without repeating itself and finally returning to the starting position....from where it can run for another 1000 years...and so on adinfinitum. You can hear 'Longplayer' "live" at several points round the globe, including Trinity Bouy, on the Thames in London.
:: Listen to score for a hole in the ground
:: Further info at the elrino website and in the Finer article on Wikipedia.
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"...'twas wonderful to see...": spirogyra, 1674
"I found floating therein divers earthy particles and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise and orderly arranged..... 'twas wonderful to see; and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen..."
Anton van Leeuwenhoek. writing to the Royal Academy in 1674, describing what he saw through his lenses in a drop of lake water.
:: Read full story and more
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About and feedback
:: This material about the Shapes fo Time is written and collated by Marshall Mateer.
First published on May 2008. Last updated February 2009
:: If you have any feedback please contact info@shapesoftime.net
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