Finally, eyeshadow for people who aren’t sissy girly babies who pee in their diapers.
(Source: scumtrout, via internetsnarkivist)
e.e. cummings, Book un-dedication to the 14 publishers who rejected him, artfully arranged as a concrete poem in the form of a funeral urn. +
(Source: irisblasi, via mythologyofblue)
It’s Friday, and that’s worth a little fanfare, don’t you think?
Joseph Cornell art source material clippings of children, between 1939 and 1986. Joseph Cornell papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Frontispiece to the book On the Writing of the Insane (1870) by G. Mackenzie Bacon. The image shown is the product of a “respectable artisan of considerable intelligence [who] was sent to the Cambridgeshire Asylum after being nearly three years in a melancholy mood”. Bacon describes how the unnamed patient, for the two years he was committed, spent “much of his time writing — sometimes verses, at others long letters of the most rambling character, and in drawing extraordinary diagrams.” *
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Frontispiece to the book On the Writing of the Insane (1870) by G. Mackenzie Bacon. The image shown is the product of a “respectable artisan of considerable intelligence [who] was sent to the Cambridgeshire Asylum after being nearly three years in a melancholy mood”. Bacon describes how the unnamed patient, for the two years he was committed, spent “much of his time writing — sometimes verses, at others long letters of the most rambling character, and in drawing extraordinary diagrams.” *
(Source: archive.org)
Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a very large book from the collections of the Walters Museum. According to the caption on Flickr, this shows two museum staff, Ariel Tabritha & Diane Bockrath, inspecting the book - possibly before digitisation. Many of the books we’ve looked at on this blog are tiny… but not all! Caring for them is no mean feat!
Image source: Walters Museum, Creative Commons licensed via Flickr.
The former Russian basketball player, now living in Falls Church, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world’s longest women’s legs: Four feet four inches of her six feet five inch frame are just legs. (via George Mason High assistant coach Svetlana Pankratova has world’s longest women’s legs - The State of NoVa - The Washington Post)
