Tag: art

Horus and Anubis, chillin’ in Cairo 2006

[Found here. Story here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Bruno’s Garret

Bruno’s Garrett, Jerome Myers, charcoal, 10.5″ x 14″, 1916
Bruno’s Garrett, Washington Square & Thompson Street, New York City, 1914 colorized

[Colorized photo found here, sketch here. Google Maps location here – the buildings were demolished long ago.]

Rafael Araujo and Phi

[Found here. More by Rafael Araujo here.]

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs – Carl Von Binzer (1873)

Identify them all. Hint: Snow White is the one pretending to be asleep.
[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 907 – Granny Fans Only, A Book of Dreams & An Oddience

[Found here, here and here.]

Gurgles

[Description and more found here. Click for uncropped images.]

The Pillar-Biter

The Pillar-Biter (1509-1517), seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, the Netherlands.

A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety.

[Image found here, caption here.]


[Update: Another pillar-biter from the same church, found here.]

Fabaceous Hot Links

Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Taj Mahal (1996) Cover of Jesse Hill’s 1960 classic. It was originally performed by a New Orleans pianist known only as “Big Four”. Reportedly Hill wrote down the melody and lyrics while hearing it live and began performing it with his own band.

Bench.

Stand By Me.

The Overcrowd.

Message in a bottle.

The Speech Jammer.

Cool carpentry trick.

Etsybirds [via My OBT].

Norty Blues Episode 113.

Public Opinion 1935-1946.

Tasting Surströmming.
Discussing Surströmming.

2+ years of boring weather.

The Flu vs. ‘Rona smackdown.

Fkkn Jeff [via Feral Irishman].

The French invented car theft.

Four Decades of CBGB & OMFUG.

The Infanticiser [via Bunkerville].

Kerry Hyde’s science fair project (2021).

YouTubes’ 20 year anniversary Top Ten.

Pickle lovers always insist on a proud pickle.

Listen with your teeth  [via Memo Of The Air].

American polyglot learns bonabo [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: The Crow, digital art by Sigi Kolbe  ca. 2009 found here.]

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Harry’s Airplanes

 

Beat culture musician, filmmaker and avant-garde artist Harry Everett Smith collected things, including paper airplanes.

The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné
“Volume one features richly detailed photographic documentation of 251 paper airplanes gathered by Smith from the streets of New York City over an approximately 20-year period. Whimsical and weird, the paper airplanes rank among Smith’s most mysterious collecting pursuits. This extensive compendium presents the fruits of his extraordinary aeronautic pursuit and highlights the tangled history and myths that accompany them.”

[Found here, description from here, h/t Chuck S.]