James Mitchell

Deep joy when fine photography colludes with fine architecture. Michael Noonan, at Norwich Cathedral.
#architecture

Replica of the Swedish ship Götheborg launched in 1745.
#SailawaySunday

HOW TO DO AWAY WITH CAPITALISM
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"Do nothing for money."

(Μηδὲν χρημάτων ἓνεκα πράττειν.)

Periander, Tyrant of Corinth, d. 585 BC.

#antiquity

Hit me Daddy, eight to the bar!

Thx: Irina Manea, ‪@shieldofskuld.bsky.social‬

#marginalia #medievalsky

In the days before electric hair dryers.

The Moon: Broeder Gheraerts Naturkunde, Utrecht 15th century. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 18.2 Aug. 4°, fol. 123r. (Thx @archaeologyart).
#medievalsky

A couple bowling, about 1300, around Belgium. May be the oldest depiction of people bowling. Harley 7640, British Library. Thx Erik Kwakkel.
#medievalsky #marginalia

Statue of Fallen Angel, Manuel Meyer, in Valencia, Spain

Macro photo of a white Peony flower against an abstract oil painting background.

The Earth without art, is just "eh."
~ Dimitri Martin
This capture is of a #Peony against an abstract oil painting!
#Quotes #Nature #Flowers
#Art #OilPainting
#MacroPhotography
#ArtCombinations
#Flowers #Botanical
#Bloomscroll
#WestCoastKin
#Photography
#PhotographersUnited 📷Sigrun Schaumburgh

A Portrait of Friends, 1881,
Louise Catherine Breslau (1856-1927)
#oilpainting

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Wake up, it's Monday
Photo: morgan23, The Guardian
#masochism

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.

Reporting by college journalists sure makes it look like the @nytimes.com went with a Trump admin lie on Harvard. Yikes.

Garber said "the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials" 1/

#SailawaySunday

A Columbia Alum Writes to President Shipman BY HILTON OBENZINGER Dear Claire Shipman, President, Columbia University. I received your letter and other notices about Columbia’s settlement with the Trump administration, and I’m disappointed an…

Letter from alumnus Hilton Obenzinger to the President of Columbia University

#ColumbiaUniversity #AcademicSky #Shipman #News

A picture I took 11 years ago.
@hipstamatic.app
#photography

What's up?
"Escaping Criticism," by Spanish painter Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874.
One wonders if he also painted the subject entering the picture frame.
#oilpainting

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia

Happy first day of August! Originally called Sextilis (the 6th month, following the pattern of Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec), August was renamed in honor of Augustus in 8 BC.

Obviously the Tolkiens knew how to throw a party.
#Tolkien

Cairo street life 19th century
#cairo #egypt

Cities of the Near East before the modern era were incredibly beautiful. My favorite would have been Cairo, with its citadel begun by Saladin in the 12th c. This photo from the 1890s shows the ceremonial entrance bottom left, with a big hole in the wall near the center.
#cairo #medievalsky #egypt

A statue made of what appears to be poured concrete shows Kublai Khan and retainers greeting the intrepid tourist. Don't get to close or he may try to hug you. [Photo: Flickruser R. Willaert.]

Dang, it looks likes you can't get there from here, according to this fail from Google Directions. Xanadu is Shangdu in Chinese.

Silly me, I worked for two years in the 1980s in Beijing, teaching at the PRC's College of Diplomacy, and it never once occurred to me to pilgrimage to Kublai Khan's palace, the holiest site in English literature, only 125 miles to the north. It's mostly unexcavated, except at one corner.
#Xanadu

Calvatia sculpta, commonly known as the sculpted puffball.
#fungus

In the NY Times yesterday: an ancient Egyptian grasshopper up for sale at Apollo Art Auctions .
#egypt #antiquity

Young Dionysus - I don't know the source.
#antiquity

Arnold Böcklin - Isle of the Dead, 3rd version - Nationalgalerie Berlin- Wikipedia.
#oilpainting

Tudor manor houses are uniquely British accomplishments, but they pale in comparison with the native English Yew. I'd kill to have one in my backyard. If you've worn out your magic wand hollering "Trumpum expellamus!" then get one made of yew, famed for its magical potency. This is known.
#sorcery

The Halloween pennant dragonfly (Celithemis eponina)
Photo by Alan Chin Lee
#entomology