Friday, June 6, 2003

Brilliant. Plain brilliant: The Credit Card Prank. "How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice? In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." 4:02:09 PM     |

Photographer to the World. Fascinating exhibition of the Detroit Publishing Company materials, hosted by The Henry Ford. Amazing historical US-photography. "The material in the museum?s collection today consists of 30,000 vintage photographic prints, 15,000 postcards, and 5,000 color and sepia lithographic prints. The photographs are contact prints made by the company from the original glass-plate negatives. They often contain written information about the topic and the photographer, instructions concerning reproduction methods and retouching marks. This current online exhibit is based on the museum exhibit and includes over 250 prints, photographs, postcards and documents relating to Detroit Publishing Company. The website was created in 2002 and was funded, in part, by a grant from the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET). 3:24:46 PM     |