Own Label

Own Label

Sainsbury’s Own Label biscuit assortment, 1967. Lovely.

From Fuel’s history of Sainsbury’s design studio, Own Label. More at Creative Review.

Mastergram

Mastergram

Tenement Penthouse, 1941 by Weegee, filtered through Instagram. From Mastergram, a site devoted to ‘remarkable photos made better (or worse) using Instagram’. Horrifying.

Forty Year Old 3D Computer Graphics

More info here.

Sean Young

Sean Young

Taken while making Blade Runner.

Via blech. More here.

Birkenhead Shopping Precinct, 1986

Birkenhead Shopping Precinct, 1986

From [D-block GB-328000-387000][1] of the [Domesday Project][2], now available online, after years languishing on LV-ROM discs that could only be read by a [BBC Master][3] and a bespoke laserdisc player.

Update: For the next few days, you can listen to Radio 4’s [history of the Domesday Project][4], and the digital archeology required to rescue it. [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-328000-387000 [2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/ [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master [4]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112913

Full Moon

Via MeFi. Album available at the Death Grips website.

Not From The Internet

One thing I will be doing from time to time this week is pulling down random books from my shelves and writing about them, under the belief that the internet is better when not all of it comes from the internet.

Tim Carmody