Creepy/cute skeletons from 1605.
Lost on the page
Lovely skeletons that seem lost on the page: where is the exit again? One of many enjoyable (though seriously-meant) images from an anatomical handbook printed in Frankfurt in 1605. The 131 illustrations in the book were ripped from publications of well-known contemporary scholars.
aw look at these guys
(Source: appendixjournal, via erikkwakkel)
Hi everyone. I’m in pre-SPX anxiety mode (known in my journal as “StressPX”) and Rich basically dared me to write this, so.
Advice for First-Time Exhibitors at SPX!
I’ve been coming to SPX since 2005, and exhibiting since 2006. Here are a few tips, many of which may seem obvious, but some of…
Much of this great advice holds up for any comic convention!
Yayy look what I got in the mail today! Thanks New York Review books!
Bring back the Maple Leaf Tartan I want it on EVERYTHING
I want a tam at least
Those colours! Canadian to the max.
Having read (highly recommended!) Ian Mortimer’s book The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, I was pleased to find this great series based on his other similar work, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. In three parts! This is the first. A treat.
You’re sure to find a story you can’t stop reading on Elizabeth Kerri Mahon's blog Scandalous Women. Well researched and written!
ahh ok you got me, you got me. Your Anne of Green Gables themed wedding ideas are pretty adorable, with lots incorporated from the story. It will always be a certain 12 year old of the past’s favourite book. At least, it feels like goodbye to summer :‘I
Here is something that may interest my friends of Anthropology, Ecology and Folklore!
My friend and one time professor Kathleen Osgood is piloting a course down at the Center for Circumpolar Studies in Vermont. It can be taken online!
Here is some info, and here also. For more specific info, do write to Dr. Osgood herself! And scroll down here to find out more about her studies, and the rest of the Center for Circumpolar Studies.
Best of all, Anima Borealis is being offered FREE OF CHARGE. Amazing! (That said, tax-deductible donations to the non-profit Center are welcome.)
Register for ANIMA BOREALIS before September 3 by e-mailing Dr. Kathleen Osgood:
kathleen.osgood (at) gmail.com
There are a lot of historical photo blogs out there, but I just think The Black History Album curates some of the best. People you want to meet. Shots that feel like you are there. That sort of thing. Highly recommended! Just click the photo to go through and follow.
skeeeetches
oh I dig that amazon lady
home with the family, I make sketch comics.
The Ten Year Lunch: Wits and Legends of the Algonquin Round Table
Illustration of a changeling story
(Source: askaboutireland.ie)
I mean, you gotta have fun right? In life.
