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Thomas McKeller by John Singer Sargent. McKeller was the model for many of the figures—male and female—in the murals for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which Sargent worked on 1917–21.
(Via Post by @mea-gloria-fides · 1 image)
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Overtype: The over-the-top manual typewriter simulator. Perfect for faking up typewritten notes for historical fiction.
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Micro.blog, a micro-blogging site with lots of interop with other platforms now has free hosting for teachers and nurses. If you know a teacher or nurse who might enjoy Micro.blog, let them know!
#IndieWeb #Micro.blog
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In the days before television we whiled away the evenings watching the play of the setting sunlight on our favourite tree.
Adam und Eva by Max Pietschmann (1894).
(Via Post by @classic-art-favourites · 1 image)
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Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail—or at least, he has drunk all 102 cocktails in the International Bartenders Association list, which is the closest to a canonical list he could find, as documented in this entertaining and edifying blog post.
(Via Adam Aaronson Drank Every Cocktail)
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Talk of catgirls and catboys reminded me of the comic-book series “Omaha” the Cat Dancer by Reed Waller and Kate Worley, in search for which I trawled through the dealers rooms of comics conventions in the 1980s and 1990s. Thirty or so years later its relaxed attitude to sex scenes still seems quite distinctive.
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LavenderTowne plays with designing characters after numerating the currently fashionable standards of beauty for men and women—and then swapping them. The result is two good-looking characters who look all the more interesting for mixing things up a little.
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The Problematic Author, a zine about an issue affecting a lot of people of the generation younger than me who grew up with magic boarding school books and movies. A mediation on loving flawed media and feeling betrayed by a childhood hero.
(Via https://kottke.org/25/04/0046651-harry-potter-and-the-prob)
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Circus artist Antoine Boissereau photographed by by Mateus Porto
