Whilst boffins in England were building concrete behemoths for their ‘Sound Mirrors’ to collect and amplify sounds to detect incoming enemy planes and Zeppelins across the Channel, it seems the Dutch were looking at amplification on more personal format.. I’m not sure if they preserved with these explosions of ear trumpet oddities but the English […]
Available from MagCloud (and taking just 31.5 hours from idea to publication), Derek Powazek has compiled a forty page record of the dust storm that recently blew through Australia. Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales and Queensland, turning everything an eerie shade of amber. At […]
Spanning Cro-Magnon cave art to Modernism and The Computer this guide to the history of visual communication whilst still very much a overview rather than a detailed study does contain an excellent source and range of images to support the text.