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A page from my upcoming children book “Le Petit loup Rouge” (The little red wolf) ~( *V*)~
(not actually by Julia Gfrörer, though she also draws mermaids who aren't interested in your problems)
(also: how do write good)
how do draw good
fill 14 sketch book
bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff
do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle
draw what make your heart do the smiley emote
member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time
d ont stress friend all is well
your art is hot like potato crisps
don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo
if they do
eat
them
Raw milk! Even dragons love it.
Feeding the Dragon by Florence Mary Anderson
Why did I not know this existed until now... and how can I get on board?
They were all covered with fireflies. Beautiful Joe’s Paradise; or, The island of brotherly love. A sequel to ‘Beautiful Joe’. Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull (1902).
Female Sailor blind in one eye reveals how she got her male attire and gig aboard the ship by going “”to a dealer in sailor’s clothes, enjoining upon him the utmost secrecy, who furnished me with sufficient clothing, and rendered me every assistance in his power to forward the object I had in view. He even procured me employment on board of a vessel which was soon to sail for New Orleans, and whispered a good word for me to the captain of the vessel.” (1841)
Image courtesy of American Antiquarian Society
...a Christmas story by the author of Pippi Longstocking.
The Tomten and the Fox
roll d12 to determine snowfall severity
Smart bookbindings - a lot of them
This morning I visited the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and it was an overwhelming experience. The library was founded in 1572 by Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and it is a rare example of a 16th-century library that survived fully intact. Walking through the library I encountered a big bronze door. When I opened it I suddenly stood eye to eye with something unexpected: vast bookcases stretching from floor to ceiling filled with thousands of bookbindings from the 15th to 17th centuries.
As you would expect, many have fragments of medieval manuscripts and early printed books pasted in and on them, to provide support (last pic). However, this collection is special for another reason. The duke himself wrote on each book what it contained. To find writing on the back of an early-modern book is not unusual, but the duke was a thorough man and went a little overboard, as you can see. The backs not only contain very long title descriptions, but also numbers. In fact, duke August is rumored to have invented the system where book numbers have a decimal point. If book nr. 23 contains physics, the next book he purchased with the same topic would receive nr. 23.1 - think Library of Congress. These are not just old, but also smart bookbindings, which carry history on their backs.
Brinton Turkle
Baby Jesus had 3 fairy godmothers.
Anonymous Follower of Giotto (Neapolitan School)
The Adoration of the Magi
Italy (1343)
Tempera and Ground Gold on Wood
Overall, with engaged frame, 26 1/8 x 18 3/8 in. (66.4 x 46.7 cm); painted surface, including tooled border, 21 3/8 x 15 in. (54.3 x 38.1 cm).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection
I have no idea why three very tiny Black women are there, but I like it. Notice the absence of the Black King; Italian adoration paintings seem less likely to feature a Black King than those from the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
Also, this is one of the paintings I come across when doing random searches and slogging through huge piles of information-the fact that these three Black women are there is not tagged or marked in any way in the database. I can’t find any more information or writing about this painting. It is attributed to an anonymous painter of the Neapolitan school, and I suppose it will remain a mystery.
Too cool.
November is American Indian Heritage month. Did you know that there are at least 562 federally recognized tribal nations in the U.S.?
Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every one. Wilbur, of the Swinomish and Tulalip in Washington State, sold everything she owns to travel the nation taking portraits of her people. She calls the series Project 562 and aims to debunk myths about American Indian culture. “I’m not a Halloween costume. I hope to encourage a new conversation of sharing and to help us move beyond the stereotypes.”
"We are still here," she says. "We remain."
via The Daily Kos and Project 562
Free "Fast Runner"! Thanks, Internets!
Atanarjuat; the Fast Runner - the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut.
Available streaming or download here (along with the other two of the Fast Runner trilogy).
Also, here’s a video version with sound.
What aspect of me is making it so hard to sit down and do the work I know I need (and, truly, want) to do?
Ha. Maybe more of a pointed answer than you were expecting?The Fool wants to wander off and surrender to the whims of the cosmos — he trusts that they’re identical to his own whims, which at this stage are still a secret to himself. You’re lucky to have this aspect of yourself so close to the surface!If you can’t indulge him right this second, you can at least honor him. Put his image where you can see it, as a reminder of the freedom that awaits you on the horizon once you’ve satisfied certain obligations. Honor him by spending some of your downtime in a way that’s nourishing or invigorating — don’t just numb yourself or fall into hibernation.
If this important work of yours is a longer-term endeavor, then you’ve to find a way to answer this calling — because that’s what it is, not laziness or just some passing fancy — in a way that runs alongside your current path. Repress him and you’ll get nowhere. Indulge him — even a little — and you will feel gentle winds guiding you toward progress.
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it’s hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it’s better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can’t write anybody’s book but your own.
Cheryl Strayed (via dejsong)
Yes! This is up there with the Amy Poehler thing about doing things right now, before you’re ready, because great people do things before they are ready.
(via thewomanofkleenex)
RSS: I need it.
This post is not about the day to day operations of The Old Reader or anything of that nature. It’s about how our team came to get involved with RSS and how we see the future of this application and technology that we value so highly.
As a long time user of RSS and Google Reader, I’ve...
this game is bullshit, you have to go through a tutorial until level 18, and your stats start to go down after level 30 not to mention the romance mini-game is hard as fuck
the difference between ryannorth and I
Men and women looking through the card catalogues at the Library of Congress, 1941.
::waves!::
Just October. I think you should go hear UKL!
Bookherd is staying with us for the month (wave hello to bookherd!),
#bookherd #the joan watson show #will she read this post? #or will she scroll past it REAL FAST because she doesn't want to be spoiled? #heheh #can we discuss her with impunity?? #PERHAPS WE CAN
no
yeah, sure, blah blah blah Clyde and bikinis and nude beaches, but handstand pushups? I fall over just trying to imagine doing one of those.
re: chromophobia... of course these chromophobes idolized a Greek/Roman past full of cool white marble.... which we've since discovered was actually a gaudily painted riot of color!
OMG!!! I FORGET PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THIS!
Yes, all those aloof, “pure” white statues from Ancient Greece?
They actually looked like this:
Vinzenz Brinkmann, much to the apparent chagrin of Westerners everywhere, used ultraviolet light to reveal the original paint schemes of these statues that the millennia had washed away.
And to underscore the Chromophobia?
Check out this graphic that i09 made for their leading image for this story:
You can check out a video here to learn more about the methods used to discover the original paint schemes of these statues and reliefs.