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Caricature of Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, painted onto a circular board with a handle, designed to look like a magnifying glass.
Clouseau est fini.
#caricature #art
Ok folks seeking BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS again. Prefer non-fic but open-minded.
To help guide, last 3 books I read:
Last Days of the Dinos by @restingdinoface.bsky.social
Life's Edge by @carlzimmer.com
The Butchering Art by @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
(btw I'd recommend all of them!)
Done!
I NEED HELP!
Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!
I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!
Please circulate widely!
An ornate trade card with illustrations of coffins around the edges
Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
*Mrs Wood | Midwife* | Business Card, London, England, 1787 | British Library
From the same @britishlibrary.bsky.social collection:
Note how the midwife, artist & printer have made a collective effort to make a woman-centred card with favourable & attractive images of a smiling younger woman in a floral dress & a cherub-baby in a classical rustic framing.
An ornate trade card with illustrations of coffins around the edges
Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
5 knives within a wooden box. 'ORTH' on each knife.
These knives are designed for cutting the crescent-shaped disks of fibrocartilage that is attached to bones (meniscus). The blades vary from long and flat, tapering and straight, concave, or v-shaped ends. These knives are typically used for orthopaedic procedures.
Caricature in progress of Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, painted onto a circular board, and with a trowel handle added so that the piece looks like a magnifying glass.
Made a start on Clouseau. I think the trowel handle is a nice touch, and when I have painted the circle's edge it will look more like a magnifying glass.
#caricature #art
How disappointing to see one of the biggest history podcasts asking for editors to have experience using AI picture and voice generators. History media is impacted enough by slop and nonsense, and many talented artists, writers, filmmakers and designers put out of work. Awful.
When ploughing your fields make sure to put a little cake in the soil as an offering to the spirits of the land.
#FolkloreThursday
For more food folklore pre-order my book here 👇
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A small wooden coffin with a wooden corpse inside
Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.
Like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park testing the electric fence for weaknesses...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around? You expect studio executives to say things like “it’s going to revolutionize content,” and “from a bottom-line standpoint it’s inevitable,” and “I’ve finally found an instrument as cold and empty as myself,” but you’d hope that an artist would have more self-respect.
of course you CAN use AI to "write" your book but you run the risk of a lethally derisive colson whitehead materializing in your office to call you a hacky motherfreaker
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
A small wooden coffin with a wooden corpse inside
Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.
Yeah, the papacy was famously an apolitical entity for nearly two millennia.
The shoes of a toddler, one of the almost 1500 people who drowned on this date in 1912 when the Titanic sank.
A small thread for a little kid.
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Short video about my two latest paintings.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vPx6i...
#caricature #art
Launching this Thursday @ 5pm UK time - The Haunted Archive's facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad."
Annotated with new illustrations.
Pre-register at Kickstarter: bit.ly/OhWhistle
FYI @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Cartoon meme featuring a very round, smiley green frog playing an Ouija board (spelled “wedgie”). The background is a slate blue color, and curving above the frog is the following in black, all caps lettering: FUCK CHATGPT. I’M ASKING GHOSTS.
one of my oldest friends sends totally random monday memes. i thought the skyline would appreciate yesterday’s:
Still full of all the bread and wine having just arrived back from Normandy, but here’s a piece on the OTHER D Day in 1944 achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...
Brass microscope and all its components in a wooden carry case.
This microscope was made by the Beck brothers in London, with the lenses designed according to formulas done by Joseph Lister’s father, Joseph Jackson Lister. These new lenses significantly improved image quality and significantly enhanced the microscope as a scientific tool.
A glass anaesthetic mask. It has a rounded chamber and is attached to a long thinner spout which connects to a glass piece that would go over the face.
This anaesthetic face mask was used to administer ether. It was made in Edinburgh in 1847 at Ford's Flint Glass Works.
Caricature painting in progress of Laurel and Hardy in monochrome, and a completed painting of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts on a heart-shaped canvas.
I have more or less finished Notting Hill, and I have started Laurel & Hardy.
#caricature #art
I already had to block a few doombots
Everyone knows there is more work to be done, but please let people feel joy over this victory.
Authoritarianism is not predetermined. The defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary shows that even entrenched strongmen can be removed by democratic means.
Hope shines bright in Europe tonight.