Tony Zhou shares the script for the final “Every Frame A Painting.” It’s Tony and Taylor’s post-mortem on the series about film. You should check it out and then watch all their videos. “(TONY) Hi, my name is Tony… (TAYLOR) and my name is Taylor… and this is […]
At the Public Medievalist, Paul Sturtevant continues series on race, racism and the middle ages with a look at the use of “race” in fantasy, including Dungeons & Dragons: “Tolkien crafted his fantasy world intricately. He, for example, took great pains to calculate distances and accommodate for the […]
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. – from “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop Caring about anything is always a risk, because, as Elizabeth Bishop said, the art of losing […]
For a while now I’ve been thinking about comic artists and writers of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. They were people directly affected by the wars and violence of their time. Some went on to create truly amazing and grisly horror and crime comics, in part reflecting on […]
Atlas Obscura looks at the world of the paintings made for display in hotel rooms and interview artist John Cerasulo. “’Dogs are huge, dogs wearing clothes always,’ Cerasulo says. Armed with the knowledge that people want to buy paintings of pups in sweaters, Cerasulo recently painted the ‘handsome […]
Lucy Bellwood writes about what happened after her illustration of nautical tattoos, “The Art of the Sailor” went viral. “A bit of an experiment this week. You’re probably all familiar with the image in this post, and some of you maybe saw that it got a lot of […]
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