At the Drinking Fountain, New York, USA, 1930s.
[Found here.]
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Thirsty.
Monday, 2 December 2019Roll On.
Thursday, 10 October 2019
The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
“In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). The slim volume, save a short preface from Breton, is made up entirely of images — 120 woodcuts depicting a series of fantastically bizarre and grotesque figures, reminiscent of some of the more inventive and twisted creations of Brueghel or Bosch.”
[…]
“Despite the claims (echoed too in the book’s subtitle), the book’s wonderful images are very unlikely to be the work of Rabelais himself — the attribution probably a clever marketing ploy by Breton. […] The creator of the prints is now widely thought to be François Desprez, a French engraver and illustrator behind two other sets of imaginative designs, similar in style.”
Those prints remind me of Jim Woodring’s stuff.
[Images and commentary from here.]
Beluga Bliss
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
[Story and image found here.]
National Heterochromia Day 2019
Friday, 12 July 2019
Not Handicap Code Compliant.
Monday, 10 June 2019
A Humble Request.
Saturday, 11 May 2019[pinned post] Some of you have heard about my sister’s plight. If not, please read this and pass it on. [Update 27 June 2019]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 578 – The Aurora Chase, Life & Death & a Graphic Turn
Friday, 29 March 2019
Remote Asteroid K19OICU812 named “Kermit2019”
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Okay, it’s not an asteroid. I made that up. It’s a frog that was sucked into the upper atmosphere by a hurricane, froze solid, then fell from the sky. It reached a high velocity and embedded itself into concrete pavement.
Okay, I made that up, too. It’s a masonry term called “frogging,” but it applies to concrete finishes as well, and is a sign of good luck.
Okay, I made that up. Those may be my pants, but they’re not my shoes.
[Image found here.]
Okay, they’re not my pants, either.
Woman Attacked For Taking A Selfie In A Zoo.
Tuesday, 12 March 2019She entered the zoo enclosure illegally, turned her back on a predator to take a selfie and fortunately survived the attack. The jaguar was held for questioning and released on its own recognizance. Authorities are trying to determine if this was a hate crime as the jaguar is black.
