Link Love: 12/4/2015

President Nixon with Elvis Presley, December 21, 1970, Roll-Frame number: WHPO 5364-18.

  • Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]
  • The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]
  • Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen. [via BBC]
  • Library of Congress acquired a collection of kinescopes, videotapes, 16 mm and Super 8 home movies of legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs and his wife, singer-actress-comedienne Edie Adams. [via Info Docket]
  • Stanford's Cantor Arts Center just completed a 6-year project to put nearly all of its 45,000 object-collection online (and it was the museum's first complete inventory since 1916!). [via Stanford News
  • Friday fun! A perpetual kinetic sculpture depicting the Greek myth of Sisyphus.

Gif of Jason Allemann's Lego Perpetual Kinetic Sculpture.

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