OikoPoiesis

. . . to make our lives an art . . .

[terrific-emus]

want to find out what kind of emu you are? i know

[merrilyspinning]

royal emu

you are a regular emu but i have put a badly drawn crown on your head because of your regal bearing. you probably ruled an empire in a past life. australians hate you twice as much as other emus.

[mathhombre]

Dr Fibonacci Who

11/23 is Fibonacci Day, because 1,1,2,3 and I guess 1/1, ½, 2/3, 3/5, 5/8, nor 8/13 were flavorful enough?

11/23 is Dr Who day because that was the day of the first broadcast, in 1963, as if that matters to the timey-wimey adventurer. The scarf is from my Doctor, who filmed a message for the day. Although hard to do better than the Tenth Doctor if I’m being logical.

[stoplookingup]

Kids these days have no idea how lucky they are. They’ll never know the agony of getting to the end of Gaudy Night after three novels’ worth of Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane UST, only to read, “’Placetne, magistra?’ ‘Placet,’” and not a Latin dictionary in the house.

[merrilyspinning]

Peacock, Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

[artist-vuillard]

Mother and Child, 1900, Edouard Vuillard

Medium: oil,board

[marckald]

Kees Scherer            1949-1952

[heaveninawildflower]

July, August, September, October, November, December illustrations ( between 1412 and 1416 ) taken from ‘Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry’ by Limbourg brothers (fl. 1402–1416), Barthélemy d'Eyck (fl. 1444–1469), Jean Colombe (1430–1493). Tempera on vellum.

Condé Museum photo.rmn.fr, R.M.N. / R.-G. Ojéda Wikimedia.

[nevver]

Go ask Alice

[providencepubliclibrary]

“The mouse’s tale,” from Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript.

[talkingpiffle]

“Polly shook her head, moved forward, tried to pick up her easy pace again. ‘Hullo!’ said Wimsey, alarmed. He pulled her to a standstill.

‘Lame in the near fore,’ he said, dismounting. ‘If you’ve been and gone and strained anything, my girl, four miles from home, father will be pleased.’ It occurred to him for the first time how curiously lonely the road was. He had not seen a single car. They might have been in the wilds of Africa.

He ran an exploratory hand down the near foreleg. The mare stood quietly enough, without shrinking or wincing. Wimsey was puzzled.

‘If these had been the good old days,’ he said, ‘I’d have thought she’d picked up a stone. But what–’

He lifted the mare’s foot, and explored it carefully with fingers and pocket-torch. His diagnosis had been right, after all. A steel nut, evidently dropped from a passing car, had wedged itself firmly between the shoe and the frog. He grunted and felt for his knife. Happily, it was one of that excellent old-fashioned kind which includes, besides blades and corkscrews, an ingenious apparatus for removing foreign bodies from horses’ feet.”

–Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention,“ Lord Peter Views the Body, 1928.

Image: Circa 1910 pocket knife with blades, corkscrew, and hoof pick, made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Sheffield, England. (x)

[some-aesthetic-wallpapers]

Piano Aesthetic 🎹

Anonymous asked:

could you possibly do a piano aesthetic? that would be stunning ❤️

[matematickcom]

They’re birds now 🤣🤣🤣

[goodticklebrain]

Animated GIFs have, for better or worse, become an integral part of how we communicate on social media. While they perhaps don’t elevate a conversation to the same degree that a well-constructed pithy rejoinder would, they are pretty darn entertaining. The only problem? There are never enough Shakespeare GIFs out there! Here are some ones I’ve made that might prove useful in online discourse.

[heaveninawildflower]

‘June’ (1645).

Engraving. After Joachim von Sandrart I (German, 1606 - 1688).

Image and text information courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[ancient-rome-au]

the letters of the Greek Alphabet, ranked according to a someone who uses them for math but doesn’t know Greek

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Balliol College, Oxford,   England

photo via helen

[talkingpiffle]

The black frock fitted her like a glove. It was made with a small square yoke and long, close sleeves, softened by a wrist frill falling nearly to the knuckles. It outlined her figure to the waist and fell full-skirted to the ground, with a suggestion of the mediaeval robe. Its dull surface effaced itself, not outshining the dull gleam of the academic poplin. She pulled the gown’s heavy folds forward upon her shoulders, so that the straight fronts fell stole-wise, serene. The hood cost her a small struggle, before she remembered the right twist at the throat which turned the bright silk outwards. She pinned it invisibly on her breast, so that it sat poised and balanced—one black shoulder and one crimson. Standing and stooping before the inadequate looking-glass (the present student who owned the room was obviously a very short woman), she adjusted the soft cap to lie flat and straight, peak down in the centre of the forehead. The glass showed her her own face, rather pale, with black brows fronting squarely either side of a strong nose, a little too broad for beauty. Her own eyes looked back at her—rather tired, rather defiant—eyes that had looked upon fear and were still wary. The mouth was the mouth of one who has been generous and repented of generosity; its wide corners were tucked back to give nothing away. With the thick, waving hair folded beneath the black cloth, the face seemed somehow stripped for action.

[talkingpiffle]

–Harriet Vane in Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Chapter I, 1936.

When women gained the right to Oxford degrees in 1920, they also were granted permission to wear academic regalia, but with a more “feminine” (in the eyes of some of the male proctors) soft cap, seen on many of the women in the photograph, rather than the mortarboard, seen on the man on the far left of the first row. (x)

Image: The opening of the East Quadrangle at Somerville College, Oxford, during the 1935 Gaudy. Dorothy L. Sayers is third from the right in the first row, turning back to speak to someone in the row behind. (x)

Previously: Sayers (and J. R. R. Tolkien) at Oxford.

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorative cover of ‘The Green Fairy Book’ by Andrew Lang.

Illustrations by H. J. Ford.

Published 1902 by Longman’s, Green & Co.

Boston Public Library 

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