Stellen Sie sich mal Handkontrollen vor, die 80 Gramm Sprengstoff in einer Unterhose aufspüren sollen. Das würde Ihr Befinden vor einer Flugreise gewiss erheblich beeinträchtigen.
Volker Zintel, Sicherheitschef des Frankfurter Flughafens, über die Vorzüge des Nacktscanners [via taz]
Two Rivers. Wisconsin.
13.000 Einwohner, geringe Kriminalitätsrate mit Planübererfüllung der Ordnungshüter (… with 30 violent crimes in 2008, our police solved 31 – a clearance rate of 103% …) und verbürgter wahrer Geburtsort des Ice Cream Sundae.
Aber weitaus interessanter: Dort findet man das Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Einhundertunddreißig Jahre amerikanische Holzlettern- und Druckgeschichte.
Operated by volunteers of the Two Rivers Historical Society, the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world.
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Hamilton volunteers host educational demonstrations, field trips, workshops and offer opportunities for artists, printers, historians and other scholars to experiment with this vast wood type collection. “We have benefited from the life experiences of the many people who actually made the exquisitely detailed wood type and who still reside in Two Rivers,” says Van Lanen. “These people are in their 70s and 80s. They showed us, from memory, how the type workshop really operated – the old secrets that make these extraordinarily beautiful and distinctively American alphabets.”
Und es gibt einen schönen Film, enstanden zum 10-jährigen Bestehen des Museums in 2009, der nostalgisch stimmt und das Typoherz erfreut – drüber gestolpert bei Ralf Herrmannsopentype.info.
Imagery and symbolism are important facets of alchemy. There are the little graphic signs for alchemical substances and processes, the images of alchemical apparatus and laboratory equipment, and the beautiful and enigmatic emblems and series of emblems that adorn many alchemical books and manuscripts. There are also a number of paintings on alchemical themes, and some artists were influenced, however peripherally, by alchemy.
