Carl Douglas

Stop You snivelling Creek-bed: Come rain hail And flood-water Laugh again

From ‘Come Rain Hail’ (1970)
—Hone Tuwhare (Ngāpuhi)

#PoetryAotearoa #poetry #haiku

Akers examining one of her textiles, a long piece suspended in the middle of a room. Another textile piece is hanging on the wall behind her, and she is flanked by two low tables filled with pebbles displaying pieces of pottery.

Adela Akers with one of her textiles, 1960, from the collection of the Archives of American Art.

the 1984 LA Games

I thought Byung-Chul Han was good on this: "Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates the narrative and submits it to consumption." (The Crisis of Narration, 2024)

Field With Furrows: simple line illustration.

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From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
—Uncredited Artist

#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration

Gift of the artist

Alexander Calder, Buckle, c.1940 #artbots #moma
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In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.

A barricade of tyres in a mocked-up street.

Sarah Pickering, High Street Barricade, from Public Order series (2002-2005)

www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...

Scavengers Reign (2023)

The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

A black and white photograph of 66 Old Church Street as seen from the garden, with its open terraces

66 Old Church Street, Chelsea

1936

Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry

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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.

"I think I'm going to buy a line-trimmer"

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

A man (30s?) in high vis is standing outside a bakery. He's just unwrapped a pie when another man (19?) walks up and starts asking questions. He holds up a finger, saying, "Later. This is pie time, mate. Pie time." and then takes a bite while making full eye contact. (4)

bunch of long dead leaves, Catula gettyi from Kaiparowits formation

‘Seeds of Abundance’, 1990

by Indigenous Australian artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray

#EarthDay

Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.

A small figure of a rabbit carved out of wood.

🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!

This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.

Photo shows a metal drawer from a filing cabinet (of extended length) standing on top of trestle legs

Photo shows the front side of a filing cabinet drawer labelled with typewritten words: 'Unknown. Height 165cm, Weight 74kg Aboriginal"

Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation

Francis Ford Coppola (with scenes from his film "The Conversation") - BOTD

A block of text almost completely obscured by white shapes that have to be moved in order to read it.

Blair Johnson and Luke Williams, 'Spoilia' ("a circular narrative in 8 paragraphs")

blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...

The Pines Chapel (1961) in Chatham, ON by architect Joseph Storey

A geometric red and black diagram made from lines, with solid and hollow circles

I feel like I need Gen Z slang to describe how cool this is: did Christopher Dresser…snap? Anyway: it’s a diagram for illustrating design lectures ca. 1854-56 in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum 🔘

A brown bear, carved in agate with rose cut diamond eyes. Chiselled on one paw C and on the other F, the initials of Carl Fabergé. (official photo of object, side profile on white background - Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2024)

For #WorldBearDay :
Brown Bear by Carl Fabergé
Commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission)
Agate, rose diamonds | 2.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
Royal Collection Trust RCIN 40301 www.rct.uk/collection/s...

Samuel van Hoogstraten, Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1670

(Mauritshuis, The Hague)

A portrait of a pharaoh, made of dark grey stone, displayed on a pedestal against a yellow background. The sculpture features a tall, conical White Crown of Upper Egypt. The face is well-defined but has visible damage, particularly on the nose and parts of the ears. Despite the missing details, the lips, eyes, and overall structure retain a striking presence

Head of Amenemhat III., 1842-1797 BC, Pharaoh during the twelfth dynasty, wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt.
The first pyramid he attempted to build, known as the Black Pyramid (Dashur), had serious construction flaws, so a second pyramid was built in Hawara.
Made of greywacke. 1/2

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Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: buff.ly/2HCCTc8 #OTD

Micrography in action

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.318r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

official museum photo, side profile on white background Incense box in form of crouching albino rabbit (white with red eyes); very round body and very long erect ears additional info: Clay: hard, fine, grayish-white. Glaze: luminous cream, crackled; touches of coral-red and gilding. Mark impressed on base.

Kyoto ware incense box in shape of crouching #rabbit with seal of Nonomura Ninsei (Japan, active c.1646-77)
Stoneware with enamels over clear glaze; H x W x D 8.2 x 7.3 x 5.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 in)
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art F1904.203a-b asia.si.edu/explore-art-...
#JapaneseArt

Starting a meeting about thwarting the demise of the humanities by handling a sixth century BCE funerary urn is just the kind of caricature of an academic I like to be.