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.
This was entitled "2 Women" by the Boston Public Library, but our analysis finds that it's a single ghost that is bilocating. Photo by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.
[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.]
"Architecture doubles as atmosphere" (Interiors magazine, 1968). This accidental double exposure is from C. W. Allen's WWII album, scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.
[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.]
You've heard that a person has a light side and a shadow side. However, "you must remember that you have two light sides instead of just one" (Popular Science, Sept. 1941). Our photographic proof is from a 1939 yearbook scanned by Miami University Libraries.
[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.]
"Do we see ourselves in others? Do we look back from outside and see ourselves? Do we see growth and expansion? Do we see our greater self?" (James Anderson Charleson, Experience Personal Fulfillment, 2013). Our photo of someone seeing her greater self in another is an "overlay of images of Amadeo and Lucie (Portugal, 1915)."