Collecting News Briefs

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Fossil Collecting in Bradenton, FL and Manatee County News

Sunday Favorites: In Search of the Missing Link - The Bradenton Times - Free News for Bradenton, FL and Manatee County:

"Jake isn’t sure how old he was when he started collecting artifacts, but growing up near Rye Bridge, there was no shortage. While scuba diving in the upper Manatee River, he once found a whole set of Mastodon teeth, but Jake isn’t really after fossils – he holds a fossil permit as a reason “to be in the water” excavating finds. In the State of Florida, it is illegal to disturb artifacts on state land or in waterways."

Rare Beatles acetate, “A Hard Day’s Night,” sold for $2225 @Goldmine's record auction countdown

Nice guys finish first in Goldmine's record auction countdown | Goldmine Magazine

Price realized $2,225.99, The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night,” 12-inch Emidisc acetate.

Here’s a fairly rare Fab Four find: a 12-inch, double-sided, mono acetate for The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” album.

It features all 14 songs included on the final album. The seller graded it VG to VG- and says the acetate is free of skips and jumps, but it has some pops and background noises and a lot of light hairline marks all over. (If I was going to have a rarity like this, I’m not sure I’d ever want it to be played more than once to record a copy on CD or MP3.) The seller had little else to add, other than the lot included a certificate of authenticity from Beatles expert Perry Cox.

Seven bids were exchanged before a winner was declared.

Birth of tattooing in Denmark | From sailors to kings #Tattoo

From sailors to kings: the birth of tattooing in Denmark:

"To descend those steps is to visit the birthplace of tattooing in Denmark.

“This is where it all started,” said photographer and author Jon Nordstrøm when The Copenhagen Post met him outside of Nyhavn 17, home to Tattoo-Ole, the oldest functioning tattoo shop in the world.

Photographer Jon Nordstrøm covers over 100 years of history in his photo book ‘Danish Tattooing’

Nordstrøm began researching the history of tattooing in Copenhagen a few years ago, collecting enough photographs, anecdotes and historical artefacts to put together the 300-page photo book ‘Dansk Tatovering/Danish Tattooing’, which he released in 2009."

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Posters for Japan: Electricity conservation (via Pink Tentacle)

Electricity conservation posters ~ Pink Tentacle:

"In Tokyo and surrounding areas, signs of electricity conservation are visible everywhere. Rolling blackouts are in effect, train services have been scaled back, stores and businesses are using fewer lights, advertising signs and escalators have been switched off, and even some pachinko parlors have cut their hours of operation."

On Twitter, a community of graphic designers [in Japanese] has sprung up to create posters encouraging people to save power. Residents of eastern Japan are encouraged to print them out and post them where they live and work. [Link: Setsuden viaGaijinPot]

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