Finamore Design

Leonardo DaVinci was one of the most prolific artists of all time.

Read the text in his notebooks via Project Gutenberg or on Interconnected.org

The New York Public Library has an online Digital Gallery that provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in their collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. (more…)

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can’t think.
There are another 5% who can, and do.
The remaining 90% can think, but don’t.
- R. A. Heinlein

I recently stumbled upon the work of Chris Jordan and was completely blown away. Especially by his Cans Seurat (in his Running the Numbers series), which is a Digital C print measuring 6×7 feet, depicting 106,000 aluminum cans, equal to the number of cans consumed in the US every thirty seconds. (more…)

The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress’s collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library’s holdings in the 1940s.

It seems everytime I am asked to spell my name, people do not hear me well and it always ends up with a misspelling. I have taken to using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell my name now and amazingly everyone understands… (more…)

By now just about everyone I know has seen the photos of the effects different drugs have on a spiders ability to spin a web. But I just ran across this video…

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These books are a definite asset to any business person, creative or not, who wants to score extreme success. These books are well written, extremely insightful, and fun to look at. I find these two books work well together, while GUT focuses on how to listen to and understand your gut instinct, BALLSY gives you the skills you need to act upon these instincts. (more…)

Did you know that Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most creative technical innovators in the history of the world, wrote over Five Million Pages of Documents? Thanks to the tireless work of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the daily record of Edison’s extraordinary life and achievements is coming to light. (more…)