Good morning.
It’s a rainy morning ahead for Whitewater, with expected clearing later, and a high temperature of seventy-four.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that today marks the formal end of the Black Hawk War:
1832 – Sauk and Fox cede Iowa Lands
On this date Sauk and Fox Indians signed the treaty ending the Black Hawk War. The treaty demanded that the Sauk cede some six million acres of land that ran the length of the eastern boundary of modern-day Iowa. The Sauk and Fox were given until June 1, 1833 to leave the area and never return to the surrendered lands. Some sources place the date as September 21.[Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 160-161]
I’ve posted before about origami, but Wired recently published a story from Olivia Solon about another form of art using paper: Design duo recreate classic 1980s devices using paper. Solon writes that
Designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann have painstakingly recreated a range of retro devices including a Game Boy, Polaroid camera and a Walkman out of meticulously-sliced paper. The French duo behind design studio Zim and Zou have launched their nostalgia-inducing collection under the title Back to Basics. It took around a year to make all of the pieces, with each pattern based on accurate measurements taken from the real objects.
They’ve a video of their method, and a gallery of ’80s devices reproduced in paper.
Back to Basics – Behind the scene from Zim and Zou on Vimeo.