Ada Lovelace & the Fire of Making

By: Matthew Battles

Steampunk artist and impresario Hieronymus Isambard von Slatt has joined the ranks of good people observing Ada Lovelace Day. See how he makes his Altoids tin etching of an Ada Lovelace portrait here. Ada Lovelace […]

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Parker and the Slashers

By: Matthew Battles

Atlantic correspondent James Parker is the hilobrow critic par excellence. Whether reviewing a biography of G. K. Chesterton or musing on the meaning of slasher films (as he does in the forthcoming issue of the […]

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Say it ain’t so, Yoe!

By: Joshua Glenn

Craig Yoe’s most recent Arf book (published by Fantagraphics) may be his last. In a March 6 email to those of us who’ve reviewed previous installments of his brilliant series of attractive and engaging books […]

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Kindle

By: Joshua Glenn

HiLobrows are emotional, yes; sentimental, (mostly) no. Which means that although we may worship, we try not to fetishize. Or scapegoat, which is the negative form of fetishization. Which brings us to Kindle, and the […]

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Re-Enchanting the Meme

By: Matthew Battles

Julian Dibbell, anthropologist of the tribes of technology, has written an entertaining and useful consideration of kittens. Specifically, he’s writing about the viral video Kittens Inspired by Kittens, in which a young girl re-enchants the […]

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New York Mag recognizes hilobrow talent

By: Joshua Glenn

… every once in a while. In the magazine’s annual Best of New York issue, Ethan Lipton And His Orchestra were named Best Lounge Act. HiLobrow — one of whom named the video for EL&HO’s […]

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Calligraphy Lesson

By: Matthew Battles

Wong Fei Hung (played by the great Kwan Tak Hing) gives Master Ko a writing lesson. From The Magnificent Butcher (1979), directed by Sammo Hung.

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