“The Five Points Experience”
Scorsese Week Finale
This painting will be in the pop up show tonight in NYC called “Scorsese” An Art Show Tribute to the Films of Martin Scorsese @ Bold Hype Gallery tonight April 19th. Presented by Spoke Art.
Group exhibition of works by:
Lauren Hall, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino,and Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley)
At NO FOUNDATION, Toronto, Ontario.
April 4-21 2013.
Curated by Penelope Smart.
Images by Josh Fee Photography.
Ah, to be in Toronto! My pal Penelope’s work.
Scott and I are headed to Juneau, Alaska!
There are lots of things going on, just look at the Alaska Robotics itinerary
Really into this painting, Mellicent Stood Motionless, Like a Wild Thing at Gaze, by the great Howard Pyle
Listen here, Canadians. Come close.
We write good books, don’t we? I mean, I don’t write good books and maybe you don’t, but there are people here who do. And yeah, sure, maybe we get bashful about not being able to come out with a new billion dollar Avengers movie or something every summer like some countries do (not to name names) but when it comes to popular culture that’s purely made by Rock Hard Talent, like (and imagine I’m making that rock ‘n roll symbol with my fist as I say this) writing stories or creating music or even drawing comics, we puff up our chests and strut around like peacocks all like don’t you even try to step up, don’t you even try! High-fiving each other and being jerks about it.
Just making a scene.
Anyway, merciful Suzuki, we love seeing other Canadians be amazing and talented, we do.
That said!
I have gotten behind a project I think you will like, knowing now that we both have been lying about being humble this whole time and just want to plaster how cool we are all over the place. Project Bookmark Canada is a charitable organization that has a pretty interesting idea. Let them explain:
Project Bookmark Canada marks the places where the real and imagined landscapes meet by placing text from imagined stories and poems in the exact, physical locations where literary scenes take place.
To engage Canadians by placing literal bookmarks at locations where literary events happened? Amazing! I love it. Participating is simple:
You click on this link, and donate $20, and boom! You’re a “Page Turner,” as they say. For every day in April, a new champion will be asking people the same thing. Today is my day, and I am proud to be a part of it. If you donate today (April 4), you’re also put in a draw to win my book Hark! A Vagrant! I’m no Margaret Atwood but who doesn’t like free books? And what were you doing with that $20 anyway? The last twenty dollars I spent was on a cab ride I could have easily walked. Sheesh.
Take a look at the twelve bookmarks they’ve already put up. Discover places and books you didn’t know before. Share your own favorites. Be a part of an awesome cerebration of literature!
Captain Frederick Hoffman
Nemesis of the comics, but he has a story of his own at Project Gutenberg. That’s where I found him, doing research one day, and wanted to draw him in something. This ref. was posted with the comic but not on tumblr and I think it’s cool reading these old journals. Click on the picture to go through.
via NYPL
Readers and reading were sources of constant interest to artists in the Romantic period. The young woman shown here holds Matthew Gregory Lewis’s “terror-gothic” The Monk (1796). A phantasmagoria of murder, suicide, corruption, and incest, it is one of the few novels for which nineteenth-century disapproval might still seem justified, and it was blamed for considerable moral degradation. The subject of Comfort heats her posterior along with her imagination.
There ain’t nothin’ feel so good as a warm butt with a phantasmagoria
A documentary (in three parts) on Anne Lister by the ever fantastic Sue Perkins!
This made my day. Going outside is good for you. A nice change from my usual uncomfortable experiences walking around out there.
gurl dat hair
Black Style | 1880s
Studio portrait of an African American female equestrian rider from the late 1880s.
via Black History Album, The Way We Were
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riding outfits forever
(via dylanmeconis)
From History House
It was discovered that all Peter did at night in bed with Catherine was play with wooden soldiers, miniature cannons and toy fortresses. Peter would make little cannon-firing noises with his mouth and shout orders to the inanimate armies on the bed, beg Catherine to join him, and hurriedly stash the playthings under the sheets whenever members of the court happened by to check on the odd assortment of noises emanating from behind their chamber door. “Often I laughed,” Catherine wrote, “but more often still I was exasperated and even made uncomfortable. The whole bed being covered and filled with dolls and toys, some of them quite heavy.” The Great Duke took his toy soldiering very seriously. Later in their marriage, Peter executed a large rat in their bedroom for devouring two toy soldiers made of starch. Peter claimed that the rat was clearly guilty according to military law, and that, after one of his dogs broke its back, he had hanged it in public view “for three days, as an example.” Catherine, thinking he was joking, burst into hysterics. Peter’s face darkened. He was twenty-five
Will watch anything narrated by Brian Blessed