My favorite image-based site on the web alongside If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats is this terrific blog, which compiles amazing images across time and cultures. To give you an example of what the site offers, there have been recent posts on Year of the Monkey postcards, vintage souvenir magician programs, Tibetan anatomical paintings, and so much more, all in luscious hi-res. But like If Charlie Parker…, Ephemera Assemblyman is really a triumph of curation, an education in photos and drawings.
Sante — one of my favorite writers on cultural ephemera — maintains this wonderful blog, where he writes in his typically detailed and eloquent prose style, making no concession to the bastardized shorthands of blog culture. His site’s description notes, “Generally I favor humble over great, marginal over central, old over new — but not always, because like a four-sided porch I’m open to all winds,” which, I hope, also applies to K as in Knife.
From what has quickly become one of my favorite design sites: Stair Porn, which features pictures of awesome staircases and nothing but.
One of my favorite sites on the internet — and, along with Kanye West’s blog, a major inspiration for this Tumblr — Tom Sutpen’s blog is a treasure trove of cultural ephemera, hosting thousands and thousands of rare images, carefully grouped into categories like “Art of Crime Fiction,” “From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66,” and “The Golden Age of Prurience.” You can spend days getting lost here.
