- The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory points out the great synergy between an artists’ 1970s pointillism drawings and images of space’s great beyond.
- What is an activist archive?
- Can making art kill you?
- Some of our own Smithsonian Institution Archives folks have also been blogging over at the Smithsonian Collection blog in honor of Archives Month. Check out posts on the essential items in any conservationists' toolkit; how historians work in archives; and the challenges of converting analog to digital.
- Eye massagers and mustache protectors, anyone? The Daily Mail has a great photo gallery of odd historical gadgets, from the 19th and early 20th Centuries [via Neatorama].
- Why Google wants to kill the JPG.
- Check out a day in the life of an archivist on the Freer + Sackler Gallery and Archives’ new YouTube channel.
- Wow, archival footage of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire aftermath [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]:
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