CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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Found 263 posts tagged ‘constellation’


Restoring the Lost Sense – June 10, 2017 (permalink)

How to Identify the Stars by Willis Isbister Milham, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book cover #constellation #book cover #vintage book #stars #book #starry night #astronomy #illustration
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Forgotten Wisdom – September 7, 2016 (permalink)


The text reads, "Everything found on land is found in the sea." —Ithell Colquhoun, Goose of Hermogenes 
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#constellation #goat #Ithell Colquhoun #sea goat
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The Right Word – August 15, 2016 (permalink)

A whole constellation of asterisks from "The Land of the Whopper" by Elizabeth Frazer, in The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.
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#constellation #asterisks
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Restoring the Lost Sense – June 12, 2016 (permalink)

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#eagle #heaven #constellation #night sky #celestial #stars #dante #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense – June 8, 2016 (permalink)

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heaven #serpent #constellation #lion #dante
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Yearbook Weirdness – May 29, 2016 (permalink)

From Smith College's 1917 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#night sky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night #constellations #telescoping
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Restoring the Lost Sense – April 16, 2016 (permalink)

"Star maps," from Scientific American, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #stars #star map #1890s #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense – March 27, 2016 (permalink)

The North Star and the Southern Cross by Margaretha Weppner, 1875.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage book cover #book design #book cover #night sky #stars #astronomy #north star #southern cross #constellations
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Restoring the Lost Sense – February 26, 2016 (permalink)

From Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith and illustrated by Fred Jane, 1897.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #constellation #stars #starry night #night #lights in the sky #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense – December 8, 2015 (permalink)

From Les Etoiles; Derniere Feerie by Joseph Mery and illustrated by Grandville, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #starry night #star goddess #grandville #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense – August 31, 2015 (permalink)

Talk about cycling under the stars.  From The Adventures of Six Young Men in the Wilds of Maine and Canada by Charles Asbury Stephens, 1884.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #constellation #night sky #cosmos #penny-farthing #cycling #stars #illustration
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This May Surprise You – August 20, 2015 (permalink)

Did you know that the night sky features both a chair and the Platonic ideal of a chair?  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.


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#constellation #night sky #stars #cassiopeia #chair #platonic ideal
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Restoring the Lost Sense – March 27, 2015 (permalink)

From Songs of the Immortals, illustrated by Haldane Macfall, c. 1920.  (In honor of "Floating Head Friday.")

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #celestial #stars #star goddess #deity #illustration
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Forgotten Wisdom – December 25, 2014 (permalink)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
"Christmas tree" is an anagram of "Hermetic stars."
This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

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#christmas #hermetic #constellation #big dipper #pine tree
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – August 28, 2013 (permalink)

From our former outpost at Twitter:

Sagan said if we designed constellations today they'd be refrigerators & microwaves. Clearly no amount of weed can turn a left brain right.

To whatever extent Carl Sagan may have understood the cosmos, he was embarrassingly clueless about the artistic mind.  If you can hear us, Mr. Sagan, you were profoundly incorrect on two counts: people are still connecting the dots to form new constellations, and no, they most certainly aren't picturing refrigerators and microwaves.  We almost want to laugh, but this sort of insight into the left-brain universe is just so chilling.
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Forgotten Wisdom – June 12, 2013 (permalink)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.

The text reads: "The fruit fly is stardust, too. —Jeff Hawkins"
Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon.  Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.
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#constellation #insect #fruit fly #flyswatter
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Forgotten Wisdom – January 31, 2013 (permalink)

"We're like handshadows illuminated by stars, and the shadow on the wall, lit by a star, is really a shadow of what isn't us." —Gary Barwin
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#constellation #gary barwin #shadow
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Forgotten Wisdom – January 3, 2013 (permalink)

Did you know that potatoes have stars in their eyes?  Here's a piece from Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, inspired by Jeff Hawkins' unlikely pairing of vegetables to astronomy.

The text reads, "The so-called eyes of nightshade tubers always connect to form the constellation Cassiopeia, the original 'couch potato.'"
Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon.  Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #cassiopeia #potato #potato eyes #illustration #couch potato #nightshade tuber #stars in their eyes
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The Right Word – December 27, 2011 (permalink)

"O" is a star.  See our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.

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#constellation #shakespeare #stars
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Forgotten Wisdom – September 6, 2011 (permalink)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:


Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon.  Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.
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#constellation #dream
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