1 week ago • 3 notesA fantastic if slightly blurry motion shot of a man squeezing the whey from the curd before scooping the fresh cheese into wooden molds in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. The whey are liquid proteins that refuse to clump and so must be removed to make hard cheeses. Squeezing out the whey also removes some of the lactose - too much can make for an unpalatable cheese.
2 weeks ago • 13 notesHEY!
THIS BIKE GOT JACKED off of OXFORD STREET on MAY 13!
the u-lock was broken off.
if you see it or someone tries to sell it to you, please call 585.752.0503
Invisible Culture, published through the University of Rochester’s graduate program in Visual and Cultural Studies, is pleased to announce the release of Issue 17, “’Where Do You Want Me to Start?’ Producing History through Mad Men.” Guest edited by Amanda Graham and Erin Leary, the issue is the first to showcase Invisible Culture’s new platform, aesthetic, and interactive features.
The release also coincides with the premiere of the fifth season of the critically acclaimed series. As with any contemporary scholarship, we recognize the arguments and concerns of the first four seasons will evolve along with the show and its characters. Thus, this issue will be supplemented by a series of weekly blog posts by guest bloggers. These posts will reflect the authors’ and editors’ continued scholarship, analysis, and critical viewpoints on the new season. This new section is intended to prompt new approaches to scholarship, and allow for varying formats, thoughts, and interaction. We welcome readers to return each week.
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute.
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3 weeks ago • 44 notesBeer for Health
Historically, beer was a staple family drink, and was often marketed - without irony - as healthy. Perhaps that’s just what Miller had in mind when they created this 1910s ad for “The High Life” as the fountain of health.via: “Greetings from Milwaukee”: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Author and historian Erika Janik continues as our guest curator for the month of May. This week she looks at the history of beer in the Badger State.
1 month ago • 342 notesEach week, we ascend into an ivory tower to deign which photographic clichés should be banished from the world forever. This week:
Pictures of beautiful, young, and white people prancing around in Native American warbonnet headdresses.
Hey, here’s an idea: Maybe it’s time you start acting a little more culturally responsible. Maybe you should consider not re-appropriating the accessories of the people your ancestors killed?
Just sayin’.
Photographer A.C. Vroman’s deck of Pueblo playing cards, 1900, Logan Museum of Anthropology:
http://www.beloit.edu/campus/news/?story_id=330475
(Source: pleasetakeitorleaveit)
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Before the ethnographer and editor Frederick Webb Hodge left for the Southwest he visited Mindeleff for advice on equipment. He recalled that Mindeleff “put his hand in a jar on the mantle and pulled out a handful of piñon nuts. I’d never seen piñon nuts before, so I cracked two or three and ate them. I said, ‘I can’t say that I like them very much; they taste like coil oil.’” Mindeleff explained that he had once leaked coal oil on his food at Hopi, and everything tasted of it. When Hodge’s three months were up, ‘darned if I didn’t like it. Now I never sit down to a meal without a coal oil can.” -Peter Nabokov, “Introduction,” to A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola, by Victor Mindeleff,xxxv.
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