Flashes of Quincy

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN

Seen in the window at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine. Photo: Bill Roorbach

Artist’s house in Hampton Bays, David Burliuk

no will to live, but l will always go to work.

I give them everything but I feel fucking empty. They don't care. Heated Rivalry (continuation of this post)

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1969

arend hendriks

untitled comic by Sal Jiang (source)

by Igor Svibilsky

Cinta Vidal — Den (oil on wood panel, 2025)

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.