Russian Sledges

I just bought celery and olives yesterday. I always buy them for Thanksgiving, but rarely any other time of the year. Olives are a special treat, and the adults in my family love them. I use celery in my cornbread dressing, and the rest of the stalk is served alone or stuffed. However, I did not know that the two were traditional on everyone’s Thanksgiving tables for almost a century, and then faded out in the 1970s. It all started when fresh produce began to be transported across the country to be enjoyed whatever the season.

The pairing of the two was both a result of the fact that they were introduced and made readily available around the same time and they served a similar purpose: both celery and olives were palate cleansers, and ones that didn’t require a servant.

“People were looking for a palate cleanser in between Thanksgiving’s richer courses,” explained [Rick] Rodgers. “At a family meal where you don’t have servants, the tray of celery and olives could be put on the table and you didn’t need a servant to serve a sorbet course.”

Advertising played a big part, too. Celery and olives eventually became “traditional” at Thanksgiving. But what happened in the 1970s to change that? Read the entire story of celery and olives on the Thanksgiving menu at boston.com.

POLL: Will your Thanksgiving table have olives and celery?

• Yes, of course!
• Celery only.
• Olives only.
• No, neither of them.

Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton stars in The Surreal World story lensed for W Magazine‘s latest edition by fashion photographer Tim Walker with styling from Jacob K. In charge of art direction and concept was Jerry Stafford, with hair by Julien d’Ys and makeup & body painting by Lisa Houghton at Tim Howard Management.

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Rose Tyler:  SHE’S PAAAAAAHNK

(Tequila Rose, Goldschlager, almond milk)

Build two parts Tequila Rose and one part Goldschlager in a pert little old-fashioned glass. Add two parts almond milk. Stir the Doctor’s deadened feelings profusely with your pink sweet sparkles.

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[OOC note:  This recipe is the first of a series posted in response to a dare issued one year ago—the popularity of which led to a goofy new project called Spirited Characters.  For these and the other proto-recipes that will be posted this week, my naming scheme was… not quite down yet, shall we say?  But the original recipient understood the title to be a reference to the Nostalgia Chick episode ‘The Smurfette Principle.’  Though I do have a certain fondness for Rose Tyler, I felt she got written as a distaff counterpart love interest pretty frustratingly often.]

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Edward Gorey - “A Dull Afternoon”

Irwin Lark ‘sardine can’, 1940

Collection Appareils is an incredibly vast online archive of more than 10,000 cameras spanning the history of analog photography. Each camera in the archive is accompanied by a photograph, as well as technical and historical data. The archive is the work of a French camera collector, Sylvain Halgand, who personally owns around 1,800 cameras and has been running the site since 1999. Halgand discusses Collection Appareils in this (French language) Reportages Photos interview. The project can be followed on Facebook.

The Argus C3 Matchmatic (1939-1966)

Haneel Tri-Vision, 1946

Compagnie Francaise de Photographie Photosphere no1, 1899

Argus Lady Carefree, 1967

photos via Collection Appareils

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From the fifth through 13th centuries, parchment, made from animal skin, was used for pages of books. Parchment was strong, but the quality of it varied based on thickness, uniformity of color, and evenness of each page. While pages of books made with very high-quality parchment remain intact fairly well, poor-quality parchment had a tendency to split and rip. Parchment was expensive, so these holes and tears were often repaired by scribes. Leiden University medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel (previously) has documented some of the creative methods scribes used to make repairs or even incorporate holes in parchment into art.

Preparing parchment was a delicate business. In order to clear the skin of flesh and hair, it was attached to a wooden frame, tight like a drum. If the round knife of the parchment maker (the lunellum) cut too deep during this scraping process, elongated rips or holes would appear. As a result the reader is given an unexpected sneak peek onto the next page – where a dragon may just be introduced into the story. We encounter such holes frequently in medieval books, which suggests that readers were not too bothered by them. Many scribes will have shared this sentiment, because they usually simply wrote around a hole. Some placed a little line around them, as if to prevent the reader from falling in.

Kwakkel made a short video with Khan Academy in which he examines how the quality of parchment affects the sound it makes when pages are turned.

photo via Erik Kwakkel

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Sabyasachi Couture

all of that yes. 

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French actress Alice Delysia

Rooster hats for FRANCE

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Instagramer @ihavethisthingwithfloors

Indian artist Aarthi Parthasarathy has a new comic called “Royal Existentials”. It’s made of images from vintage Indian Mughal miniature paintings, an art form that dates back to at least the sixteenth century.

I heard about it from this article, where she mentions where she got the idea:

A web-comic fan herself, Parthasarathy was inspired by Wondermark, a comic strip series created by California artist David Malki that has Victorian-era drawings with funny dialogues added in. So, she set out to create something similarly humorous but utterly Indian.

For the series, Parthasarathy picks existing images of Indian miniature paintings and writes contemporary dialogues to them focusing on the joke and the punchline. The social commentary is incidental. “It started out as a way to just have fun with images,” she said. “After the first three, I suddenly realised that this is becoming very social, very feminist.”

I think that’s super turbo cool. Keep at it, Aarthi!! My one note is that I wish the comics were bigger on the site so they’re easier to read!

BONUS RELATED LINK: I’ve mentioned this before — and it’s as old as Wondermark, if not older — but I still love it: the Bayeaux Tapestry Generator, with which you can make something akin to comics, or memes, or just 100% accurate representations of history.

OLD ART 4 LYFE

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Tyler Johnson, 31, claims he has brought 13 corpses back to life as part of his work on the Dead Raisers Team, a group of evangelicals who travel around sharing their gift for resurrection and faith healing, and teach others how to make miracles too. Read the rest

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Xu Bing — Tian Shu (Book from the Sky), 1987-1991

Tian Shu is comprised of a display of books spread in a large rectangle across the ground, above which voluptuous scrolls unroll in long, pregnant arcs. The books—four hundred of them—are handmade with reverential adherence to the standards of traditional Ming dynasty fonts, bookbinding, typesetting and stringing techniques. 

To make them, Xu painstakingly carved Chinese characters into square woodblocks, in just the way his ancient printing predecessors would have done, had them typeset and printed, and the printed pages mounted and bound into books and scrolls.

Yet, there’s the astonishing, Borgesian catch: out of the three or four thousand Chinese characters used in these volumes and scrolls, not a single one of them is a real Chinese character. They are made up of recognizable radicals and typical atomic components of Chinese characters, but Xu laboured to ensure that while they all retain the unmistakable look of Chinese script, they are all, so to speak, nonsense. They do not exist in any dictionary, and do not mean anything. Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers alike approach the books with the same sense of wonder at their beauty, and the same sense of incomprehension at their content. It’s a piece of art whose meaning is to be found in its meaninglessness. (via)

My kind of asshole.

poster art by Jose-Luis Segura

Visions of Arrakis is an upcoming art show tribute to the amazing characters, creatures, and worlds from Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi masterpiece Dune at Bergeron’s Books in Oakland, California. The show, which will feature original artwork created by over two dozen local artists, is scheduled to open on December 5, 2014 from 7 – 10 PM PST. Interested parties can RSVP for the event online via Facebook.

Second Sight of the Bene Gesserits by Steven Russell Black

Guild Navigators by Tiffany Turrill

images via Justin Lawrence DeVine and credited artists

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Harlequine dress worn by Swedish queen Ulrika Eleonora at a masquerade about 1675.

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Paul Smith Albemarle Street store facade / 6a Architects

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Chanel s/s 2015

Hunting sword, by-knife and scabbard

• Dated: 1544
• Maker: Diego de Çaias (active circa 1530-52)
• Provenance: Commemorating Henry VIII capture of Boulogne sur Mer from the French in 1545. Private museum of George Wallis, Hull, by 1798; Earl of Londesborough, by 1857; his sale, Christie’s, London, 4-11 July 1888; Frederic Spitzer sale, Paris, 10-14 July 1895; Prince Ladislao Odescalchi, Rome; from whom acquired by HM The Queen, 1966.

This is one of the few surviving works made by the Spanish decorator of arms Diego de Çaias while he was employed by Henry VIII between 1543 and 1547. It was probably one of the items described in the inventory of the King’s possessions taken after his death in the latter year as 'iij longe woodknives ij of them of Dego his makinge'.

The sword is in the form of a hunting weapon, with an auxiliary knife decorated in the same style of ‘counterfeit’ damascening (in which thin gold wires are pressed into lines incised on a hatched background). The wooden scabbard, covered in tooled black leather, is probably an eighteenth-century replacement, with the original iron mounts reapplied. The grip of the sword, which is made of wood and bound with iron wire, is also thought to be a replacement.

The decoration includes hunting scenes of a kind to be expected on a weapon of this type, but the great interest lies in the miniature topographical scene at the top of the sword blade. It depicts with some accuracy the siege of Boulogne, which began on 19 July 1544 and was conducted under Henry VIII’s direct command from 26 July; the French defenders eventually capitulated on 14 September.

The city of Boulogne appears to the upper right, while on the left can be seen the offensive mound on which the English artillery was arranged. The Latin elegiac inscription on the other side of the blade may have been written by a court poet in celebration of the victory; the sword was presumably made soon afterwards. It is unsigned, but the style of the gold decoration is extremely close to signed examples of Diego de Çaias’s work, in particular the mace made for Henry II of France now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The sword is inscribed on one side of the blade, damascened in gold "HENRICI OCTAVI / LETARE BOLONIA / DVCTV PVRPVREIS / TVRRES CONSPICIE / NDA ROSIS IAM / TRACTA IACEN [sic] / MALE OLENTIA / LILIA PVLSVS G / ALLVS ET INVI[C]TA / REGNAT IN ARCE / LEO SIC TIBI NEC / VIRT[V]S DEERIT / NE[C GR]ATIA FOR / MAE [CV]M LEO / TVTELA CVM / ROSA [S]IT DECORI" meaning “Rejoice Boulogne in the rule of the eighth Henry. Thy towers are now seen to be adorned with crimson roses, now are the ill-scented lilies uprooted and prostrate, the cock is expelled, and the lion reigns in the invincible citadel. Thus, neither valour nor grace of beauty will fail thee, since the lion is thy protection and the rose thy ornament”; translation by Claude Blair.

Source: Copyright 2014 © Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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shinondraws:

The evolution of the Pokémon logo.

Amazing.

North America doesn’t even care just come get your Pokemon you piece of shit

Benjamin Britten sippin on a soda. 

Happy Birthday, Benjamin Britten!

eastwoodwong:

Utena in Balmain Fall 2012 because it’s not enough just having pink hair.

Not goggles. Glasses. Under a facemask.

College GameDay at The Game between Harvard vs. Yale brought many great nerd jokes -- Sign vs. Sine, etc. -- but nothing anybody could've come up with could be as good as this:

We've reached peak Harvard Yale....@PhilHecken @SBNationCFB pic.twitter.com/Fw2RPVCXJx

— Victory Cheeseballs (@VictoryCB) November 22, 2014

That's Harvard's Andrew Flesher wearing legit glasses on the field under his facemask. His Harvard athletics profile pic:

Before you say AHHHHH THAT'S SUCH A BAD IDEA GET CONTACTS GET CONTACTS THOSE GLASSES WILL BREAK EVERY PLAY, it should be noted that Flesher is a kicker, so he doesn't have to make a lot of hits on the field. The senior playing in his final college game has no career tackles.

But it could happen! Sometimes kicks get blocked! GET GOGGLES OR CONTACTS WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOU, ANDREW.

Flesher nailed a 25-yarder to open the scoring for Harvard in their biggest game of the year as they seek an Ivy League championship.