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Telling It Like It Is
I really love Scott C, and I would post something of his here pretty much every day if it were not for my vanishingly small sense of self-preservation. It’s been over a year, though, so I think I can get away with another one. This is from a series of illustrations he did for an ad campaign by Portuguese film group Show Off! (Fuel Lisbon), about what happens to great ideas when Marketing gets ahold of them.
Many more at his post about this project.
(Also, Advertolog has a couple more on its Fuel Lisbon page, notably The Toilet One and The Shark One.)
Blind Children Study Hippopotamus
Blind children studying a hippopotamus, by Julius Kirschner, May 1914
Many more at the American Museum of Natural History website.
When it rains, she shops
I love these old illustrations showing women using computers/displays in the kitchen. To do kitcheny things. It’s simultaneously prescient and yet a far cry from the mother’s-little-helper that network technology has come to be.
Happy Sunday
I am an enormous fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I love pasta, and I am delighted by anything with eyes on stalks. And as a student of literature with more than a passing interest in comparative religion and in medieval art, I cannot help but be delighted by the Spaghetti Universalis.
The inspiration for the form of this piece, itself a reference to an earlier time and aesthetic, is a longtime favorite—ably enhanced by this modern explanation.
Creation
Kleine Beer
This is the cover for Goodnight, Little Bear in Dutch (and Can’t you sleep, Little Bear? in German), by Martin Waddell, illustrated by Barbara Firth.
Look how he grabs his little toes!
Third Position
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!
An ecstasy of fumbling at this year’s IgNobel awards:
The Public Health prize went to Dr. Elena Bodnar, who here straps a portion of a bra she designed (it converts into a pair of gas masks) to the face of Wolfgang Ketterle. More
