PocasPalabras

Aqp, I'll (probably) never do it again.

[guttykreum]

風: Yokohama, Kanagawa

[houghtonlib]

A title page illustration full of interesting details.

Opticæ thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem.  Basel, 1572.

GC5 R4947 572i 

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[archatlas]

Jenaro Pindú

Jenaro Pindú (1946–1993) was a prominent cartoonist, sculptor and architect of Paraguay. He was a student of Hermann Guggiari, one of the best-known Paraguayan sculptors of the twentieth century. (via Wikipedia)

[librarycomic]

Umma’s Table by Yeon-Sik Hong. Translated by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. 9781770463868. 360pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781770463868?partnerid=34778&p_bt

In this follow-up to Hong’s Uncomfortably Happy, South Korean manhwa artist Madang moves to a small house in the outskirts of Paju with his wife (also an artist) and their new son. The focus isn’t on art and making a living, though; it’s on memories, his aging and ailing parents, and his new son. What ties it all together is food – the meals Madang’s mother made him when he was little, and the food Madang himself prepares for his family, much of it made with ingredients grown in their new garden. At once sad and heartwarming, it’s filled with beautiful moments and the reality of trying to help his parents deal with their health problems. One of my favorite moments is near the beginning, when Madang makes kimchi with his mom and he realizes it may be the last time. Equally heartbreaking are his feelings for his father, who continues to drink and place demands on what little energy Madang’s mother has.

This would pair well with Robin Ha’s Cook Korean: A Comic Book with Recipes – there’s not enough detail in most of the meal preparation to qualify this is as a cookbook, but if you’ve had Korean food before it’s guaranteed to make you hungry.

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Philae Temple Complex

View of the Philae Temple Complex, partially-submerged in the Nile flood before 1968, Aswan.

[nasa]

What is the weirdest thing you had to account for when building the perseverance rover?

[marchempel2]

Gaiman meets Gorey in this merry mash-up from September of 2019. India ink and watercolor on 4-ply Bristol.

[tastefullyoffensive]

🤯

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Dr. Emil Holub’s method for suspending wounded ostriches, illustrated in his 1882 book Beiträge zur Ornithologie Südafrikas.

Full text available here.

[cheshirelibrary]

bee-autiful pun

#mondaypun

[bellswithin-blog]

Franz Kafka’s signature in a letter to Milena Jesenská. It reads:

Franz wrong, F wrong, Yours wrong/ nothing more, calm, deep forest.

Prague, July 29, 1920.

Letters to Milena. Franz Kafka, trans. Philip Boehm. New York: Schocken Books, 1990.

[itskyalenotkyle]

[weilongfu]

@sarah-yyy​

When surfaces vibrate at certain frequencies, they create patterns due to the vibrations. When you have light materials such as dust and powders, they can move along with the vibration patterns, creating what you see here.

[cheshirelibrary]

[via sarahcandersen.com]

[truebluemeandyou]

Do’s and Don'ts of Designing for Accessibility

Anxiety

Autistic Spectrum

Dyslexia

Physical or Motor Disabilities

Low Vision

Screen Readers

Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Find the PDFs for Do’s and Don’ts of Designing for Accessibility here.

[bonniepangart]

Book Dinosaurs

Posting on Tumblr my art in the past few months.

[yaaltag]

Love this artwork! 

[archatlas]

Animated GIFs Restore UNESCO Cultural Sites to Their Original Glory 

Ruins, or the remains of human-made architecture, can be found all over the world. from Greece to Mexico, to Italy and Egypt, people travel the world to see them to get a glimpse into the past. However, it’s not easy to imagine how these structures looked in their original, glorious form. luckily, creative studio Neomam has been creating animated GIFs that wondrously restore them before our eyes with a collection of images that aims to raise awareness of 6 UNESCO cultural sites in danger of disappearing forever.

[museum-of-artifacts]

Galileo’s Moon Drawings, the First Realistic Depictions of the Moon in History (1610). #science #moon #history #artifacts #art