Links Ahoy! (8)

Here is another Links Ahoy! So soon, but due to my boredom, it was inevitable...

The Burns Archive

In my previous Links Ahoy! post, I linked to the Newsweek selection from the Burns Archive. Dr. Stanley B. Burns was an ophthalmologist who made an incredible collection of photographs during his lifetime. His collection includes pictures of freed slaves, a Nazi fighter pilot, Japanese geisha, and victims of the infamous Tuskegee experiments. Thus, we can see a very rich collection of certain moments in history, perfectly captured in photographic form.

This link is to the entire Burn's collection, containing over 700,000 photographs. Being the macabre-loving bastard child that I am, I am particularly enchanted by the Death & Dying collection. 

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Twaggies

Wonderfully funny illustrations of random tweets from Twitter. Some are just downright surreal - I wonder if I sound that hostile sometimes on my Twitter. 

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Dafont

I don't know if you have come across this site before, but I have found a ton of lovely free fonts here. Especially love my find of the Kremlin font, which I used (with great effect) to creep out my class, by presenting a research poster as a Soviet propaganda poster. 

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Space Invaders

Official website of the famous French graffiti artist Invader (places the 8-bit characters from Space Invaders all around the world [using mosaic tiles] - a wonderful effect, almost like a real invasion).  

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Wilfred Owen poems

I am sure most of you have heard of the great war poet Wilfred Owen. This Project Gutenberg link contains most of his most well-known and revered poems.

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Women in Art: Kathe Kollwitz

I have featured some of her stark artwork in my January 'Air Quotes' series. I am definitely going to an individual blog post about her artwork, because - god - I have never been confronted so directly by art before.

Here is a link to a nice article about her artwork, and some featured work [alas - the pictures are not great quality, but they are the best I can find right now). 

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Epic Rap Battles of History

To finish off on a light note - this YouTube channel features some ridiculously hilarious rap battles between random famous opponents. There is Justin Beiber vs Beethoven, Hitler vs Darth Vader, etc...

But my favourite has to be this one - Einstein vs Stephen Hawking:



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