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As well as writing novels, poetry and plays, Tommy Sissons publishes Grass, a magazine of working class literature and art. For issue four, he’s teamed up with designer Jake Buckley. The new issue is a visual delight, appearing in two volumes wrapped in a red candy stripe paper bag. The two tell us more about the mag as they discuss their working week. What are you doing this Monday morning?Tommy: …

Over the past few years, we have been working on how we can use booklets effectively. With Literature texts, there is so much you can do. That is the beauty and also the problem with it. How do you ensure students get a similar experience but allow the teacher some level of freedom to teach how they want? That’s why we have worked on our booklets that work alongside what …

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An 18th century “Pandora” or “poupée de mode”. In the absence of fashion magazines, these three-dimensional samples traveled across the seas to inform dressmakers about the latest fashion trends . Before Paris firmly seized power in the domain, art styles and fashion trends were generated mainly in Italy. The reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) marked the beginning of Paris’s rise as a fashion capital. The Sun King used fashion as …

Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks!Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this entire house, including the photos have not been touched since that time. This Wake County, NC house, built in 2007, currently boasts a price …

Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rain Studies is a full-spectrum affair; it alternately plays and washes away intruding sounds. Its CTwins-spirit is best transmitted on “Tenkyuu,” which sounds like muting everything but a single guitar track on Victorialand‘s mixing desk. I suppose these comparisons are a little unfair. I feel I’m projecting my …

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium chip, the start of the long-lived Pentium family.1 The weaver, Marilou Schultz, created the artwork in 1994 using traditional materials and techniques. The rug …

The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current Hebrew calendar, it was adopted in Babylonia, and therefore has Akkadian origin. Klein writes that it derives from an Akkadian word reflecting its function as the beginning of the harvest period:Akka. ulūlu, elūlu (= harvest, harvest time; lit.: ‘the time when the produce of …

I was interested* to see Naz Hamid asking on Mastodon** about how folks keep diaries these days. *I was also thinking I should probably spin up Visual Studio Code for the first time in a few weeks to check that it all still works and that I still remember how to blog. **Can we talk about how infuriating it is trying to link to a specific post/thread in Mastodon, or …

Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This Month, we are featuring Stela Zoric, who writes at Those obscure objects of desire. 1. Why do you blog? We live in a world of abundant data, data that has never been easier to access. But real information? Something worthwhile? That has always been, and will always be, more difficult to obtain. Since I …

September bathes the garden in golden light. September sun is often the most benign of the year, the mornings and evenings chilly enough to need a jersey but the days bright and shirt-sleeve warm. Some of this is due to the changing climate but September has always been one of the best months and always with a marked seasonal shift, with a new term, new season, new feel in the …

Nate Piekos took the bull by the horns and wrote The Book on comic book lettering. He did not disappoint. The post The Ultimate Guide to Lettering Comics appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

“You see, it was the wedding of my grandparents. To the Shaws was born a boy, James, and to the Stephensons, a daughter, Esther. James and Esther were sweethearts from childhood and like their parents before them, they too were married on a beach at midnight amid blazing torches. Is it any wonder I should have become a torch singer?” –Wini Shaw Wini Shaw was born Winifred Lei Momi on …

When is the best time to land fish using the fly rod? August stands out as the least productive month, particularly for warm-water species. Bass and Bluegill tend to retreat to deeper waters during the hottest times of the year, typically July and August when surface temperatures can reach a scorching 87/88 degrees. However, as the water begins to cool in late September and October, the fish become more active, …

Lillian Gish is, unquestionably, one of the most significant stars of the silent film era. But one of her greatest performances from the era was in the last silent film she appeared in: The Wind, released in 1928. The Wind was an adaptation of Dorothy Scarborough’s novel by the same name, first published in 1925. This is very much a book that was meant to be turned into a silent …