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N.F. Burnham’s Water Wheel, patented on 7/16/1872. Handprint, date unknown. 

Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

Image description: Exterior and interior views of a short, cylindrical device which has a number of moveable flaps around the circumference. 

Image description: The reverse of Page 1, with a Patent Office stamp, burns from the acidic ink on Page 3, and a large handprint, as though someone used a sticky or dirty hand to pick up the page.

Foster Island, Seattle, 1984

I remember Toonami. And Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at 3am. Anime reruns on the screen.

bolting upright with a drawing idea as if i have the energy to do anything but sneeze

You are either committed to science, technology, engineering, and math—venturing deep into the intersection of numbers and philosophy—or you get swallowed by one of the lesser ideologies like communism, makeup, or video game addiction

have you considered that it's you who is old, and not the email draft?

While I was typing up some documents this afternoon, I needed a throwaway email address to receive some information.

So I logged into an older account I have, then clicked the drafts folder. I found a draft of an email from 2017.

The body read, "This email will have to wait." I guess I must have been hyperliteral at the time, since it's now been waiting for eight years.

641 025 in Leipzig-Liebertwolkwitz am 23.04.2025

Art is like religion in that it represents something that is beyond the reach of empiricism. The element of fantasy is inextinguishable. Spinoza made the chief distinction that religion, unlike superstition, was founded on knowledge rather than ignorance. But what if, in stark contrast to things forged from knowledge, art is, at times, profoundly further from knowledge than it appears? And there, we might see that art isn't necessarily deep; it's just a mirror, and the mind is an abyss. Yes, I say this as someone who both appreciates and creates art. Criticizing art; classic artist move.

Reddgio

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn