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Restoring the Lost Sense – January 29, 2017

Evolution of a leap year bell. The handwriting reads, "This is just my state, but I hope not for alway[s]. —Belle." From 1908.

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[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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#transformation #bell #vintage postcard #leap year #1908 #postcard

Do-Re-Midi – December 30, 2016

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Here's how fiddling can lead to "violin(t) convulsions" and "spasmotic uncertainty," twisting away one's identity forever. From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #violin #treble clef #musician #illustration

Precursors – November 1, 2016

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Here's a precursor to Wendy Walker's sublime novel The Secret Service, in which spies discover a Tibetan technique to transform themselves into inanimate objects. From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1874.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration

Yearbook Weirdness – July 8, 2016

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Here's the transformation of a Freshman student into a dyspepsia tablet [and a precursor to the "This is your brain on drugs" ad campaign], from Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1917. Many such transformations are covered in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – June 22, 2016

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From The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects, 1870.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – April 8, 2016

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From the Collection of Tried Receipts Contributed by Various Charlestown House-keepers and Published in Behalf of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Charlestown ( Mass.) Branch of the Boston Y.M.C.A, 1893.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #dog #goose #shape shifting #illustration #art

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – February 25, 2016

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"All transformations occur without the least expediture of energy. This is fundamental. If effort were required, even the most minimal amount—and given that in a transformation the point of departure and arrival are identical, i.e. the 'transformed'—energy would be left over and would, in turn, inflate one end or the other of the universe, creating a bulge and returning us to the realm of the monstrous." —César Aira (as translated by Katherine Silver), The Literary Conference

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