The Sibiu Pharmacy Museum
The Sibiu Pharmacy Museum in Romania. It is housed in a 1569 Gothic townhouse where the oldest pharmacy in Romania operated for over 150 years.
Tadanori Yokoo
Tadanori Yokoo is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. His early work shows the influence of the New York-based Push Pin Studio(Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences.
Light Years Away
Light Years Away is a film in which a young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.
The Grammar of Ornament
This classic book is considered the definitive guide to ornamental design. Containing over 2,000 original engravings complete with informative and insightful descriptions, this book is a must-have for enthusiasts of ethnographic art.
Jacques Tati
Though he made only a handful of films, director, writer, and actor Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever-more-ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art.
Terra Australis
Terra Australis was a hypothetical continent appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Arguably the most psychologically compelling painting by John Singer Sargent.
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
In 1953, the fledgling CIA hired professional magician John Mulholland to adapt his techniques of stealth and misdirection to the craft of espionage. Mulholland produced two illustrated manuals featuring a range of tricks from placing pills into drinks to stealing documents and avoiding detection. The classified manuals were believed to have been destroyed in 1973, but the authors discovered a copy in 2007 among recently declassified CIA archives.
The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony. After having won gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the 200-meter running event, they turned on the podium to face their flags. Each athlete raised a black-gloved fist, and kept them raised until the anthem had finished.
Telharmonium
Often recognized as the world’s first electronic musical instrument, the Telharmonium was a large organ-like device that used tonewheels to creative synthetic musical notes that were then transmitted by wires to a series of loudspeakers. The Telharmonium was developed by the inventor Thaddeus Cahill in 1897, and at the time it was one of the biggest instruments ever built.