Anthony Angel

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Stunning; can’t believe I’m only now learning of Angel’s work. Whole article is fantastic; more beautiful photos there | via Ephemeral New York:

Mental illness set in. Instead of finishing his Harvard degree, he joined the army, and after a medical discharge drifted across the country doing odd jobs before settling in Manhattan.

Armed with a camera and a new identity as Anthony Angel, he spent years promptly leaving his rented room on East 51st Street to crisscross the city, an unlikely documentarian of ordinary glimpses during Gotham’s postwar years.

“On almost every afternoon from 1952 to 1966, [Rizzuto] left his crummy rented room to snap pictures on the New York streets,” wrote New York magazine in 2005.



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Experimenting with returning links to being their own weekly post (or perhaps twice-weekly, on Weds and Sat?), a hodgepodge of trailers and quotes and more. Plus it’s easier to update these at the last minute than it is trying to update the newsletter before it sends (and K said she enjoys clicking through them so there). Anyhow…

And if a prosthetic need not mimic the limb it is replacing, then perhaps prosthetics could be more than just replacements? Ms Clode is an expert in the design of robotic prostheses controlled by artificial tendons. She is keen to explore the possibility of augmenting existing bodies with new capabilities, making prosthetics “a technology that could be of use to everybody, not just amputees”. To that end she has designed the “Third Thumb”, a small and robust prosthetic digit that does exactly what it says on the tin. Controlled, like Ms Knox’s vine-arm, by pressure sensors in a pair of shoes, the thumb can be used to replace a missing one. But it can also be added to an intact hand on the opposite side from its existing, biological thumb.

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