Whatever

I’ve fallen in the binder and I can’t get up!

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:25:20 -0400

I’ve fallen in the binder and I can’t get up!

Dear Cat, Stop being part of the freeloading 47% who feel...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:29:00 -0400

Dear Cat,

Stop being part of the freeloading 47% who feel entitled to food, shelter, litterbox cleaning, and vet visits. Kill the mice in the garage or get a job!

President of Pussies

Mitt Romney

benningtoncollege: “The phrase a leap of faith can carry a...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:34:38 -0400

benningtoncollege:

“The phrase a leap of faith can carry a connotation of blind acceptance or naïveté on the part of leaper, neither of which is true in the case of Bennington… Logically Bennington College shouldn’t exist. But here we are. Bennington stood at the precipice of conventional wisdom and leapt. And the wisdom of Bennington is the knowledge that there is a space created in between taking off from ground and touching back down and in that space everything is possible.”

-Oceana Wilson, director of the Crossett Library, addressing Bennington’s incoming class at this year’s Convocation.

benningtonstudents: Here’s some photos of Crosset...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:12:05 -0400

Entrance sculptures

Display case

Maccsss

Upstairs 24/7 reading room

Upstairs study space

Best view on campus but it's wayy too distracting when you're trying to work

Downstairs study nook

Jet fuel

Downstairs moving stacks

Studious student

benningtonstudents:

Here’s some photos of Crosset Library….

Liam

aspareroom: Arches National Park. Photo by K. Jackson 2012

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:52:19 -0400

aspareroom:

Arches National Park. Photo by K. Jackson 2012

crossettlibrary: It’s Nikola Tesla’s birthday. To truly...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:10:41 -0400

crossettlibrary:

It’s Nikola Tesla’s birthday. To truly understand how awesome Tesla was, and why he is one of the greatest geeks of all-time…well, I’ll let The Oatmeal explain:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

morerobots:

rosa—sparks:

abaldwin360:

Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla!

He was a hot hipster and inventor of everything amazing. He invented stuff we STILL can’t figure out.

Sadly, the band named after him is not as awesome.

Word to all. I needed something positive to reblog and this is perfect.

crossettlibrary: Peter Dinklage looking, pardon my french,...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:33:08 -0400

crossettlibrary:

Peter Dinklage looking, pardon my french, bad-ass in the Joan Goodrich Garden outside Crossett Library.

(via Bennington College Flickr)

crossettlibrary: Group of teenagers listening to 45 rpm....

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:45:58 -0400

crossettlibrary:

Group of teenagers listening to 45 rpm. records as they shop for the latest hits at a record store, 1944. Photo by Nina Leen.

This is what Crossett looks like on Sunday nights.

The Krakatoa Sunsets

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:00:25 -0400

The Krakatoa Sunsets:

From the American Libraries Magazine, this is the Public Domain Review. I’ve only read this one article, but I can’t wait to read more.

benningtonstudents: [reblogged by...

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:51:36 -0400

benningtonstudents:

[reblogged by Ellie]

limbless-creaturess:

Crosset Storm.

Flowers for the seniors

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:00:30 -0400

Flowers for the seniors

The thesis reception begins

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:59:41 -0400

The thesis reception begins

My Johnny Jump-ups

Sun, 20 May 2012 10:21:27 -0400

My Johnny Jump-ups

benningtonstudents: above: Carolyn in her incoming class photo...

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:14:31 -0400

benningtonstudents:

above: Carolyn in her incoming class photo from 1933; Crossett Library today; the original announcement about Crossett Library from the November 1959 alumni mag

Carolyn Crossett Rowland, mother of photography at Bennington and part of the namesake of our library, passed away yesterday.

Affectionately known in our community as Crossie, she attended Bennington in the 1930s as one of the first incoming classes. In the 1950s, she donated the money for Bennignton to build Crossett Library and it opened in 1959. She named it after her father, and a drawing of him with a plaque still hangs in the library now.

Carolyn was one of the first photo students at Bennington College. She set up the first darkroom the school ever had. She also had many amusing and fascinating anecdotes from her connection to the photo world outside of Bennington. Oceana Wilson, our current director of the library, tells me this: “She knew Ansel Adams and even had some of his prints. She also went to Stieglitz’s photo studio when she was on Field Work Term in NYC and boldly asked him to look at her work. After answering the door in a cape, he critiqued her work for an hour and a half.”

Through perseverance, Carolyn was able to create an interest for photography on campus and give the option of studying it to others. As a photography student, I feel like I owe many parts of my life here to her. When I walk down the photo and darkroom hallways in our art building, I pass a sign on the front of the darkroom doors that says “The Carolyn Crossett Rowland Black and White Darkroom.” She is definitely on our minds.

Taking action, getting things done for herself, and pioneering uncharted grounds in her education: a true Bennington girl! She will be greatly missed.

-India K, ‘12
with much help from Oceana Wilson, Joe Tucker, and Kathy Williams of the amazing Crossett Library

First time in 20 years….. at the Music Library...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:52:57 -0400

First time in 20 years….. at the Music Library feeder…..Indigo Bunting!

Photo by Susan Reiss, Bennington College

We have a fox family on the Bennington campus with 4 little...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:42:08 -0400

The Mother

Kits First Brahms

We have a fox family on the Bennington campus with 4 little kits. Susie Reiss, our music librarian and animal enthusiast, has been keeping a photojournal on their progress and life on campus.

Yesterday, the Kits walked over to Greenwall, where, on the other side, Sage City Symphony was playing Brahm’s First.

See how their ears are perked up?

Spring chick

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:32:36 -0400

Spring chick

Campus wildlife

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:31:20 -0400

Campus wildlife

Beautiful

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:03:04 -0400

Beautiful

crossettlibrary: The two birds are very rare sightings of 2...

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:00:23 -0400

crossettlibrary:

The two birds are very rare sightings of 2 Red-Bellied Woodpeckers at the suet and feeder at the same time. Susie Reiss, Jennings Music Librarian, snapped these shots.