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This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. He hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.

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Romans, 37 AD: To the Tiber with Tiberius! Thank Jupiter that monster is dead. We will never have an emperor worse than him!

Romans, 40 AD: There are no words to describe how wrong we were.

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This charming bust of a smiling young woman is painted on wood in the technique of wax, or encaustic (from Greek enkaiein, to burn in). The coloured pigments are mixed with liquid wax and applied with a brush while still hot to cover a thin ground coat. While the medium is still warm, a spatula-like tool or sharp instrument is used to fuse the layers of colour together and bring out such details as the eyebrows. This method, used mostly for the skin, not only strengthens the artistic effect of the portrait but also gives the surface a lifelike structure. All in all, the artist was successful in shading the oval face with its velvety cheeks and rosy skin, but some details, such as the torso and the nose, seem inorganic and artificial. An effective contrast to the delicate flesh tones and light background is provided by the dark hair and the luminescent pink of the clothing. The rings of flesh around the neck are not a sign of age but rather, like the suggested breasts, an erotic aspect. Clad in a pink tunic with contrasting decorative trim, the woman is also wearing golden ear-pendants with pearls, and gold necklaces of differing size, one of them with a head of Medusa as a pendant. The simple pinned-up hair and facial features of the young woman with large eyes are imitative of portraits of the young Faustina, the wife of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. The practice of painting lifelike portraits of the dead and laying them over the face of the embalmed mummy is closely connected with the ancient Egyptian belief that the facial features of the dead had to be preserved for their life in the hereafter.

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One more instalment left. Thank you, John Finnemore. Thank you, Cabin Pressure.

I'm crying now but isn't it supposed to be a comedy!?

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I got up at 0200 am waiting for Cabin Pressure, with one of the cabin crew supervising...

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Download or listen to this abridged version of Patrick O’Brian’s “The Surgeon’s Mate”, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. In the early summer of 1812, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin arrive in Canada on HMS Shannon after escaping their American...

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I'm so not ready for Zurich! I mean, hurray, but also —- eeargh. :(

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Cabin Pressure isn’t ending because Douglas will do something clever and everything will be alright

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Kim Jong Un Would Really Hate For You To Watch This, Which Is Exactly Why You Should

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so fucking moving

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter at “The Imitation Game” New York Premiere, Nov 17 2014.

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for those asking, here’s the ring.

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Congratulations to the couple.

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A sketch, painting and watercolour of Roger Allam as Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV and Prospero in The Tempest by freelance illustrator and cartoonist Chris Duggan.

Chris Duggan’s exhibition, In My Memory Lock’d, is currently displayed at The Globe Theatre (ends 2 November 2014, so hurry!) Why you should go: Chris Duggan has seen every Shakespeare production in the Globe Theatre since 1996 (we are very jealous) and recorded them – mostly from memory – in his many sketchbooks. About 200 of his lively and evocative sketches are displayed, alongside ink and watercolour illustrations of some of the distinctive actors in character. The admission is included in your ticket to the Globe Exhibition, so no reason not to go! For more info, please click here.

Also, for further viewing/reading pleasure: Chris Duggan’s work featured in many magazines including The Times, Time Out, and The Independent. He also illustrated books such as Hic! The Entire History of Wine (Abridged) and The Ascent of Rum Doodle.

Posted with permission of the artist. To see more of Chris Duggan’s work online, please visit his website Cee-Dee.com

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On September 5, 1379, two herds of pigs at a French monastery grew agitated and killed a man named Perrinot Muet. As was custom at the time, the pigs—the actual murderers and those that had simply looked on—were tried for their horrible crime, and sentenced to death. You see, with their “cries and aggressive actions,” the onlookers “showed that they approved of the assault,” and mustn’t be allowed to escape justice.

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…One swine going so far as to eat a child “although it was Friday”.

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