Illustration of a woman, with characteristic 'Gibson Girl' updo, carrying a serving tray. Lying on the serving tray, steaming as if recently removed from the oven, but otherwise smiling and unperturbed, is a small cherubic child with wings and legs in the air.
Looking at illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. I have questions about this one. (1903)
A digital pinboard showing six options. Ranging from 1. Nothing. 2. A vague outline with no/barely any colour. To 5. A vivid red star and 6. Something more elaborate. 35 people respond as “imagers” (Options 4-6). 6 people show aphantasia (Options 1-2), with one person selecting ‘nothing’. In the comments section for “nothing”, someone has asked “hello one friend. How do you imagine things?” The reply says “I think of concepts (weepy-face) can’t see things in my mind”
Once a year I ask my students to imagine a red star.
It’s cognitive psychology and we are about to talk about whether “imagery” is the same or different from “perception”, but first, I like to check in on what our class experience when we imagine something.
Friends, the results NEVER disappoint!
It certainly does! Thank you!
Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan; Fry the pancake, Toss the pancake, — Catch it if you can. Illustration is a woman tossing a pancake in the air while a child watches from each side.
Celebrate Pancake Day with Christina Rossetti's 'Mix a pancake', illustrated by Arthur Hughes.
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Here it is in a caption from the Dalziel’s illustrated Goldsmith (1865). Definitely a literary affectation in this case, pointing to the C18th origins of the text. The text proper is printed with a short s, so it’s just the caption that uses this archaic form
I’ve seen it persist in handwriting well into the 1860s
Currently prepping these wooden beauties for a new display on Richard Owen’s science, art and legacy going into the NHM’s Images of Nature gallery tomorrow! #woodengraving #megatherium #bones #specialcollections
Alligator snapping head of large tiger at the river's edge
One can begin to understand why cats (even big ones) don't like the water. Stories and Pictures of Animals c1890s #BookologyThursday #booksky
Front cover illustration of the book, showing sleeping beauty in a butter-yellow silk dress draped on a pink bed with the old lady dressed rather like a witch spinning behind the bed
Ladybird book in the spotlight
Sleeping Beauty (1965)
Artist: Eric Winter
A woman in 18th century costume looks out of a casement window at the garden of her neighbour and looks longingly at the salad
That feeling when you are ready to swap your first-born for a really crisp lettuce
(Rapunzel, 1968)
Artist: Eric Winter
Masthead of the Pen and Pencil: An Illustrated Family Newspaper. The title is given in simple block capitals. This is volume one, number one, for Saturday 10th February 1855. The price was six pence.
Today’s #MastheadMonday is the Pen and Pencil (1855). It aimed to tap into several fashions that coalesced in the mid C19th: illustrated newspapers, cheap family papers, & the Crimean War. It lasted only 8 issues. Digitised by the BL & free to view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/pen-a...
I can already hear the tech bros calling me a luddite: here it is with no paywall I think app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/133185...
Very interesting thread! Showing it to my husband and son (both physicists)
🧠✨ Did you know that 1 in 25 people experience reading without mental images?
In a new piece for @tes, Prof Julia Thomas explores aphantasia, which affects how we engage with literature.
How can educators support readers who don't "see" stories in their mind’s eye? 🧐
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3RdXbvg
Have you ever thought about what you see — or don’t see — in your mind’s eye as you read? Take a look at this piece I’ve written about reading and aphantasia: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
One of the greatest scholars of illustration, and a genuinely lovely person. We will miss him.
The Guardian has published an obituary of my dear friend Brian, written by his wife Maxine. I love the photo she chose for it. www.theguardian.com/education/20... #C19
Thank you — now I have to save up to buy it 😂
This recommendation is a career highlight (I have a new book out, by the way!)
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not arguing in favour of AI generated lit. Just making the case that human lit is highly complex, especially in terms of what comes from where. Of course AI ignores the authorial ‘human experience’: it’s not a human. But that’s not to say that there is no reader experience
Agree with ethical concerns, but it’s not that simple because ALL literature (AI and human) is a product of ‘collective’ intelligence/knowledge, and is (consciously and unconsciously) ‘ripped off’ with or without credit. That’s the nature of literature: it’s a ‘tissue of quotations’ to quote Barthes
I’ve touched on this, and literary tourism in general, in relation to Shakespeare’s birthplace here: www.pennpress.org/978081222337...
There are so many ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the humanities. This NEH-funded collaboration between the University of Wyoming and Cardiff University in Wales used AI to preserve more than 3,000 images of 22 medieval cathedrals at high resolutions. ow.ly/PS0T50V0qAB
For those who may not yet have heard, our dear friend Brian Maidment passed away a little over a week ago. It is difficult to put into words how much he meant to our community, but @pritijoshi.bsky.social has paid him wonderful tribute here: rs4vp.org/in-memoriam-...
Sign at 216Mass that reads “Elevator is temporally out of order” and in small print “sorry for the inconvenience”
This (typo) is literally the dream, not an inconvenience
Jimmy Page's Zodiac Dining Table in his Arts & Crafts home, Tower House, London, designed by William Burges.
