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George Bird Grinnell - Someone to Know.
George Bird Grinnell - <i>Someone to Know.</i>
George Bird Grinnell, naturalist, conservationist and Indian rights activist, was born into a prominent family in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Yale University, receiving his B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in paleontology in 1880. While at Yale, Grinnell participated in a paleontological expedition to the central Plains, Wyoming and Utah. In 1874 he served as naturalist and paleontologist in Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s Black Hills expedition and, in 1875, was a member of William Ludlow’s expedition surveying the Yellowstone. In 1899 Grinnell was a naturalist on Edward H. Harriman Expedition to Alaska. Grinnell’s lifelong interest in the west was well established long before he left Yale. In 1876, four years before he earned his Ph.D., Grinnell became the editor-in-chief and soon-to-be owner of Forest and Stream magazine. Under his leadership, it became the country’s foremost natural history magazine. Grinnell was the magazine’s editor from 1876 until 1911, and he used its pages to help promote the creation of national parks. Grinnell played a pivotal role in the creation of Glacier National Park in 1910.
Grinnell’s interest in the west extended to its native inhabitants. He was deeply interested in Plains Indians and, year after year, spent his summers visiting different reservations. He had befriended Frank North and his Pawnee scouts, and accompanied them on buffalo and elk hunts. Grinnell witnessed the destruction of game animals, brought about by commercial hunters, and was cognizant of its impact on Plains Indians’ way of life. Grinnell, a prolific writer, authored several books and many articles on Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and Pawnee Indians, the most well-know of which was the two volume work entitled "The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Way of Life," first published in 1923. Until his death, he remained a staunch supporter of Cheyenne rights.
Grinnell was a founding member of both the Audubon Society and Boone and Crockett Club (with Theodore Roosevelt). He chaired the Council on National Parks, Forests and Wildlife, and was president of the National Parks Association. He was a trustee of the New York Zoological Society. Grinnell was also a prominent member of many other associations, such as the American Association of the Advancement of Science and New York Academy of Science. Grinnell was 89 years old when he died in New York City.
Link to more at Wikipedia.
Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/19/2012
On Winner-Take-All Politics

Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Tags: Video, Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/16/2012
Man Turns a Page of a Newspaper
Another Rube Goldberg (ish) Machine
Tags: Video, Rube Goldberg Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/16/2012
Omaha Chapter American Guild of Organists
Omaha Chapter American Guild of Organists
Tags: Link, Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/8/2012
Clyfford Still Museum - Denver
Clyfford Still Museum - Denver
Clyfford Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. Still's contemporaries included Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Though the styles and approaches of these artists varied considerably, Abstract Expressionism is marked by abstract forms, expressive brushwork, and monumental scale, all of which were used to convey universal themes about creation, life, struggle, and death ("the human condition"), themes that took on a considerable relevance during and after World War II.
Tags: Link, Art Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/5/2012
Imus Map
Imus Map
The Imus "Essential Geography of the United States of America" map may look like any other U.S. wall map. It's about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional conic projection. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways.
Tags: Link, Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/3/2012
Dale Nichols, Nebraska Artist
Dale Nichols, Nebraska Artist
With fond memories of his childhood on the neighborhood farm in Nebraska, Dale Nichols continued to be influenced by his affection for his native Midwest. "Farm life was all I knew for the first 20 years of my life. In painting these canvases, I felt again the vastness of endless skies, experienced again the penetrating cold of Nebraska winters, lived again as farmers live …in spirit, I am very much a farmer," Nichols has said.
Tags: Link, Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/3/2012
Restore Omaha
Restore Omaha
To promote the practice of restoration and provide educational opportunities for the public and trade professionals to learn about restoration techniques and information.
http://restoreomaha.org/
Posted by Nathan Krämer on 1/3/2012
The Art of Travis Louie
The Art of Travis Louie
Travis Louie's hypnotic “portraiture” is compelling for its blend of the hyper realistic with the blatantly unreal. Fantastical creatures gaze out from paintings so technically refined (using transparent layers of acrylic paint over a tight graphite drawing on a smooth flat surface) that they look uncannily like old photographs. Adding to the discomfiting presence these animal/monster like chimeras have are the human expressions- even if the creature in the paintings looks a bit bizarre, it also looks spookily familiar as well. Often in his work Louie seeks to create mythological ancestors…long-lost “relatives” captured in Victorian cabinet card/ tint type images. His own interest in Noir imagery, German Expressionism, and personal dream imagery. Each painting comes with a "bio" about each character, written by the artist.
http://www.travislouie.com/
Art Posted by Nathan Krämer on 12/26/2011
Slow Motion Video 10,000fps
British Slow Mo Guy Gav uses five mug of hot tea to compare five different slo-mo settings: 500 frames-per-second (fps), 1,000fps, 2,500fps, 5,000fps, and, for the first time on his web series, 10,000fps.
Tags: Video, Posted by Nathan Krämer on 12/23/2011

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