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Revenge bedtime procrastination art feat. McVries and Garraty from The Long Walk.

I especially liked the end of this movie, where everyone finished the long walk and said "that was very invigorating!" and then they all went and had a nice big breakfast together.

#the long walk #peter mcvries #ray garraty #david jonsson #cooper hoffman #my art #ink art #rag paper #wanna hear something cute?#these two portraits are back-to-back on the same piece of paper <3 #(because rag paper is expensive and I don't have an only-painting-one-side-of-the-paper income)

Plant of the Day

Thursday 3 October 2024

In the first year the biennial Verbascum thapsus (great mullein, Aaron's rod, beggar's blanket, cow's lungwort, duffle, feltwort, flannel leaf, fluffweed, rag paper, torch lily, velvet dock) produces a rosette of large wooly grey-green leaves. In the second year a tall, upright, woolly stem is produced bearing yellow, saucer-shaped flowers popular with pollinators.

Jill Raggett

It’s Fine Press Friday!

Last week we presented a Limited Editions Club production of Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, translated by Lafcadio Hearn. This week we present the same text, but as presented by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, long-time proprietors of the Allen Press in Kentfield, California, in their 1974 publication printed in an edition of 140 copies. The imagery is from various world cultures, and the Allens use their favored handset Menhart Unciala for the text and Solemnis for display, printed damp on mould-made French rag paper using their classic 1846 Columbian handpress. The Allens hand-bound the edition in a binding cloth using a 15th-century Persian motif hand-blocked in Venice, Italy at the Fortuny Fabrics shop.

Our copy of is yet another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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#Fine Press Friday #Fine Pres Fridays #Lewis and Dorothy Allen #Allen Press #Gustave Flaubert #The Temptation of Saint Anthony #Lafcadio Hearn #Unciala type #Solemnis type #uncial typefaces #rag paper #Columbian handpress #hand bindiing #Fortuny Fabrics #fine press books #Jerry Buff

Even though Krasnaya Moskva was the most popular perfume in the USSR, it was still considered a sophisticated scent. Other eau de colognes like Troynoy (Triple) boasted a different reputation — that of an alternative to alcohol at times of want. Numerous Soviet jokes featured Troynoy as the punchline: when someone was said to smell of Troyboy, it meant their breath reeked of it. In Russia today, however, most companies strive to distance themselves from Soviet-era cosmetics, which still bear the burden of a dead empire...in Russia it (soviet perfume) evokes a sense of melancholy. Smell is after all a foolproof way to trigger memories: who wants to get a whiff of their old high-school headmistress who they only saw when they got in trouble? Who wants an eau de cologne that all the neighbourhood drunks smelled of? My own mother breaks out in a sneezing fit whenever she gets a sniff of Krasnaya Moskva or even Chanel No. 5. She says it makes her think of strict teachers and Communist Party workers. A friend hates the smell of Detskiy cream because her mother used to smother it on her face on gloomy winter mornings before taking her to school. The smell of perestroika and of freedom was imported along with the liberal ideology of the times. The smell of perestroika and of freedom was imported along with the liberal ideology of the times. Although a wave of patriotism is currently sweeping across Russia, bringing with it many Soviet traditions and products, make-up has been left behind. If the last few factories still pumping out Soviet classics survive long enough, perhaps future generations will no longer associate Lancome’s Magie Noire with freedom and Krasnaya Moskva with their schooldays.

Going rouge: a brief history of Soviet cosmetics

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