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abillmiller for glitChicago at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, running until September 28.

100 years ago today, the first crossword puzzle was published, according to Smithsonian (1). In Ukraine Serhiy Petyuk decorated a house with a crossword puzzle, where you can see the letters only at the night (2). Ken Knowlton and Frank Longo made the portrait crossword (3). Christian Svanes Kolding made the QR-crossword (4).

thx 2 nerdcore for the head’s up

Artistic Embroidery (Художественная вышивка), a book edited by L. Ya. Razutova (Л. Я. Разутовой) in 1963. Soviet artistic folk embroidery patterns. Images from an Ebay auction. More info (in Russian) here.

Post updated in 2024.

Ukrainian embroidery (via)

2024-update: following the Tumblr-link, we learn that these images “are from one of several publications on Ukrainian folk art from RODOVID Press in Kyiv. For more info and other beautiful images see: https://www.rodovid.net/e_catalog.html.” and that page is archived here.

ANSI-style music video for Com Truise – Terminal, made by myk31 (Mykola Dosenko), 2012. via @sixteencolors who also mentions Beck’s ASCII video from 2004.

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