The Alphabet of Insects
At Gallica you can peruse Léon Becker’s Alphabet Des Insectes from 1883. Its scanned pages and illustrations are grlorious. Read it here.
A Cross-Section of Kowloon Walled City!
Colossal has an intricate illustration of Kowloon Walled City before it was destroyed in 1994 drawn by Hitomi Terasawa. “For a now out-of-print book titled Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide, artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory. The massive panorama […]
It’s time for “The Lottery!”
Happy June 27th, everyone, it’s time for the Lottery! Well, the 1969 film adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic folk horror story / pointed dystopian socio-political warning. Watch here. Or if you prefer to read Jackson’s short story, you can here or here.
“Re-Routing The Horrific & The Black Subject In Film With Dianca London Potts”
At Graveyard Shift Sisters, friend of the Gutter Ashlee Blackwell considers the horrific, Black horror, the white gaze and the Black subject among other things in her profile of Dianca London Potts. “Dianca’s exemplary analysis makes her an exciting, sobering voice in pop culture criticism. This Bucks County, Pennsylvania dropout […]
Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for Alice In Wonderland
Open Culture has a gallery of images of Salvador Dalí’s illustrations for Alice In Wonderland.
NASA Graphics Standards
Do you need NASA’s graphic standards manual from 1976? Here you go!
The Cultural Gutter 