In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)
An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.
From The Public Domain Review
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)
By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.
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‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen
700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen appeared first on…
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Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces
Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist…
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THUMBTHUMB
Super trippy. Like an improvisational synth artist interpreting a series of insect migrations. Definitely mysterious. THUMBTHUMB IS NOT MYSTERIOUS
From Kagi Small Web
Even Littler Johns
The incredible Small Numbers in Color, 1959, that Jasper Johns loaned to the Philadelphia Museum for the 2021 retrospective is [again?/still?] on view there. We saw it last weekend after the Duchamp show, and it was [again?/still?] fantastic. I have done nothing to find out what the back of the wood…
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Sick of AI ads, a roofer hand-drew his own and was accused of being AI
How Anton from Southland Roof Repairs went viral for a terrible AI ad... that was never AI.
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Blender Doodling
I'm using my 1:144 Halberstadt D-II model to fiddle with generating disruptive pattern textures in Blender. There's an enormous amount you can do with the node shading system, but I am the merest beginner when it comes to texturing objects in Blender.
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